You can have fun wherever, whenever with your Nintendo Switch system. Here are a few features that can help you get the most fun possible out of your system!
Try different play modes. This may seem like a no-brainer, but it’s easy to forget! There are three main ways to play the Nintendo Switch system: handheld mode (playing on the go with the Joy-Con™ controllers attached to both sides of the console), tabletop mode (placing the console on a table with the kickstand out), and TV mode (you probably know what this means). Experiment around to see how the system can best fit in your life
Visit Nintendo eShop. Nintendo eShop has special sections for recent releases, games on sale, best sellers, and games that are coming soon. Use the search bar if you want to search with filters or quickly find games with free demos. Some games on Nintendo eShop will be available to pre-purchase and pre-load. And finally, buying eligible digital content will also give you My Nintendo Gold Points that can be redeemed towards most digital products on Nintendo eShop.
Share your adventures. Head to the Album to share in-game screenshots and video to your Facebook and Twitter pages. To take a screenshot, just tap at any time. To create a video clip of the last 30 seconds of gameplay, hold down (note that this feature only works with compatible games).
Pair your controllers. Take a look at the Controllers menu if you want to pair new controllers or change configurations.
Follow game channels for specific news and updates. On the news feed, click on Find Channels on the top right of the screen. You’ll find many interesting channels to follow!
Purchase a Nintendo Switch Online membership. Nintendo Switch Online* gives you access to online play and Save Data Cloud backup in compatible games such as the Super Smash Bros.™ Ultimate game. You also get access to a growing catalog of classic NES™ games, and cloud save backup for your save data in compatible games.
Hold down the Home Button Holding down the Home Button will give you access to a handy-dandy menu. You can easily change some of your system settings here.
We hope these tips help!
*Nintendo Switch Online membership (sold separately) and Nintendo Account required for online play. Not available in all countries. Internet access required for online features. Terms apply. Learn more at https://www.nintendo.com/switch-online
Jump start your New Year’s fitness goals with Fitness Boxing for Nintendo Switch
With the holiday season coming to an end, it’s time to grab your Joy-Con controllers and hop off the couch! The Fitness Boxinggame on the Nintendo Switch system is now available, so you can treat yourself to a fun workout wherever you want! The game’s rhythm-based boxing exercises will help you accomplish those New Year’s fitness resolutions in no time.
Thanks to Nintendo Switch, Fitness Boxing is a new way to work out that fits anyone’s busy lifestyle. Since Nintendo Switch can be played at home on the TV or taken on the go, you can play Fitness Boxing anywhere you like, whether working out in the room while the baby is napping, in a hotel room on a business trip, in the kitchen while dinner cooks or in your room before bed. It’s easier and more convenient than hitting the gym and is the perfect way to jump into the boxing fitness trend.
The game offers personalized rhythmic workouts by letting you select different fitness goals, choose from a diverse group of trainers and make a personalized daily workout ranging from 10 minutes (short), to 30 minutes (mid), to 45 minutes (long). The software will track your progress with estimated approximate BMI and calories-burned information to help encourage healthy habits and keep you progressing to your goals.
“Fitness Boxing gives users a new way to burn some calories while having fun,” said Doug Bowser, Nintendo of America’s Senior Vice President of Sales and Marketing. “And thanks to the portable nature of Nintendo Switch, your workout goes wherever you do.”
Now you’ll be able to master your boxing basics while getting down to instrumental versions of 20 hit songs from popular artists. As you progress, you can earn more songs and more challenging training circuits.
With two Joy-Con controllers or two sets of Joy-Con (sold separately), you can share the experience with a friend or family member in two-player local play. You can choose to work out together, try to string together chains of moves or face off in a virtual boxing ring for some competitive fun. And with the power of Nintendo Switch, you can play anytime, anywhere.
Fitness Boxing is now available at a suggested retail price of $49.99. If you want to try before you buy (or box before you unbox), check out the free demo for the game. The demo features three days’ worth of workouts, giving you a taste of the exercise routines you can easily implement into your daily life.
Remember that Nintendo Switch features parental controls that let adults manage the content their children can access. For more information about other features, visit https://www.nintendo.com/switch/.
Start off the New Year right with some great deals!
If one of your New Year’s resolutions is saving money on amazing games, you’re in luck! Starting today and running until 8:59 a.m. PT on Jan. 10, Nintendo is offering discounts on the digital versions of many games for both the Nintendo Switch system and the Nintendo 3DS family of systems.
Pre-purchase digital version of New Super Mario Bros. U Deluxe, earn double Gold Points!
Looking to strike (virtual) gold? For a limited time, you can earn up to 600 My Nintendo Gold points—twice the normal amount—when you pre-purchase the digital version of the New Super Mario Bros. U Deluxe game through Nintendo eShop or Nintendo.com (where available).
Receive a bonus of 300 My Nintendo Gold Points when you pre-purchase the digital version of the New Super Mario Bros. U Deluxe game through Nintendo eShop or Nintendo.com (where available).
Offer ends 1/10/2019 at 8:59 p.m. PST.
Gold Points are awarded based on the amount you pay (excluding tax and any points or discounts used) and have no cash value.
Bonus points will be issued on the game’s launch day, are earned based on the original list price of the game on Nintendo eShop, and will vary by country and currency.
A Nintendo Account is required to receive and redeem My Nintendo points. Terms apply: https://accounts.nintendo.com/term_point.
What was the year’s most fun multiplayer game that secretly ruins friendships? What was the best Super Smash Bros. Ultimate moment? What was the best game of 2018? These questions keep our panel up at night. Host Chris Slate and guests Kit Ellis and Krysta Yang from Nintendo Minute need their rest, so we asked our trustworthy listeners to vote on the answers in this special year-end episode.
Nintendo Switch is the fastest-selling video game system of this generation
Nintendo Switch has become the fastest-selling video game system of this hardware generation through 21 months, according to The NPD Group, which tracks video game sales in the United States. From its launch in March 2017 through November 2018, Nintendo Switch has sold more than 8.7 million units, outpacing U.S. sales of all other current-generation systems at the same point in their life cycles.
Nintendo is also the overall top-selling U.S. software publisher so far for 2018, according to NPD data through November. This performance should receive an additional boost from the December release of the Super Smash Bros. Ultimate game, which has become not only the fastest-selling Nintendo Switch game of all time, but also the fastest-selling game in the Super Smash Bros. series, with U.S. sales of over 3 million units in just 11 days, according to Nintendo’s internal sales data.
“We are thrilled to see such a strong reaction from consumers in the second holiday season for Nintendo Switch,” said Doug Bowser, Nintendo of America’s Senior Vice President of Sales and Marketing. “We’re looking forward to delivering more excitement and smiles to our fans in the coming year and beyond.”
The following data from Nintendo of America is specific to the U.S. only:
Remember that Nintendo Switch features parental controls that let adults manage the content their children can access. For more information about other features, visit https://www.nintendo.com/switch/.
Follow this tutorial step-by-step to create a 3D iPhone model to use in video games, graphic design and illustration projects whilst learning Cinema 4D quickly.
Some of the skills you’ll learn in this tutorial include creating basic 3D modelling, importing reference images, adding lighting to the scene and basic rendering techniques.
In the first part of the two-part tutorial, I showed you how to:
How to Import Reference Images
How to Prepare for Modelling
How to Model the iPhone
In this, the second part of the the tutorial series, I’ll show you how to:
How to Create Coloured Materials
How to Add Lighting to the Scene
How to Render the iPhone
9. How to Create a New Material
Step 1
Located near the bottom of the screen there is a material selection window. Click on Create > New Materialto create a new material to use that you can edit.
Materials are used to colour in the various objects and parts of the iPhone.
Select New Material from the menu
Step 2
Double click on the new material icon (displayed as a sphere). This will bring up the Material Editor, where you can adjust the various properties of the material such as the colour, transparency and reflectance.
For this particular style we will only be interested in flat colour (Luminance).
Open the Material Editor
Step 3
Tick the button for Luminance and untick the boxes for Colour and Reflectance. This will give the cel shaded look for the final image.
Select Luminance
Step 4
Colour the iPhone body by adding the material to the object. Drag and drop the material to the object using the mouse. You can also drag and drop the material onto the object listed on the right of the screen.
Drag new material on to the 3D model
10. How to Adjust the Material Properties
Step 1
In the Material Editor, click on the arrow button next to Texture and select Sketch and Toon > Cel from the menu.
Select Sketch and Toon and Cel from the menu
Step 2
Click on the new Cel button that appears next to Texture to bring up a new menu.
Click on the Cel button
Step 3
In this new menu, adjust the settings as follows:
Change the Diffuse to match the image at below. It should be grey scale with the colour getting light from left to right.
Untick Camera.
Tick Lights.
Tick Shadows
Select Multiply from the drop down menu.
Adjust the settings in the editor
Step 4
Select a colour by double-clicking on the colour option box .
The Material Editor gives many different options for choosing and picking colours. These include RGB, HSV and so on. Choose whichever option you are most familiar with as a flat colour. Because of the Multiply shading mode, the different colour shades will also appear in the material.
If the material has already been applied to the model, the colour of the model will automatically be adjusted to the new material colour. This is useful if you change your mind on a certain colour or a certain part of the iPhone model.
Pick a colour
Step 5
Because we’ve already applied the material to the model, the colour of the iPhone will automatically be adjusted to the new material colour.
11. How to Adjust the Shading
Step 1
To get a better idea of the shading and how our render will turn out as we work on it, click and hold on the Render Button and select Interactive Render Region from the menu.
Select Interactive Render Region
Step 2
Use the mouse to adjust the window so that it fits around the iPhone model. Look for the very small arrow on the right hand side of the window and use the mouse to drag it to the top right corner of the box (this increases the resolution).
Decrease the resolution by moving the arrow down if you find that the performance is decreasing.
Adjust the resolution
Step 3
To change the way the light source is facing go to Options > Default Light.
You can also add a light object to the scene if you are more comfortable working that way.
Select default light
Step 4
Change the light source in the Default Light window. Click where you’d like the light source to come from on the sphere and it will sync with the view port. Experiment with different lighting positions to come up with a lighting situation that you like.
This can be adjusted at anytime so you can change the lighting again if you changed your mind.
Change the lighting direction
Step 5
Secondary-click on the arrow and select Alpha Mode in order to reveal the rest of the viewport. Some people may find working this way easier.
Select Alpha Mode
12. Other Lighting Solutions
Step 1
To set up the basic lighting, go to the Floor button located in the top menu bar. Primary-Click-Hold and then select Physical Sky from the menu.
Select Physical Sky
Step 2
Make sure that Physical Sky is selected in the menu on the right, a new menu will appear on the bottom right of the screen. Select the Time and Location tab and choose a time using the left and right arrow keys.
This will change the lighting of the scene (according to the time of the day). Choose a suitable time to light up the scene. You’ll see how the lighting affects the scene in the viewport.
Select a Time
Step 3
To add a light to the scene, select the Add Light button in the top menu bar at the top of the screen.
This creates a Light Object which you can move around the scene. Move the light object using the Move Tool to a suitable position.
Select the Add Light Button
Step 4
To customise the lighting further, experiment with the light object options in the bottom right of the screen. Here you can adjust the Intensity, Light Type and even Colour.
Light Object adjustments
13. How to Colour the iPhone Screen
Step 1
To create a new material we can duplicate the material by holding CTRL on the keyboard and then using the mouse to click and drag the material to the side.
Duplicate material
Step 2
Double-click on the new material to open up the Material Editor and select Luminance. From there we can change the colour to the following:
R: 56
G: 47
B: 66
Choose a new colour
Step 3
Apply the new material to the screen by clicking and dragging it directly onto the object.
Apply material to model
14. How to Colour the iPhone Details
Step 1
Create a new material. You can also duplicate a previous material in order to keep the settings from before.
Double-click on the new material to open up the Material Editor and select Luminance. From there we can change the colour to the following:
R: 70
G: 69
B: 65
Choose a new colour
Step 2
Apply the new material to the button objects inside the cutout group. You can also apply the material by clicking and dragging it to the object in the viewport.
Apply material to objects in list view
Step 3
When the material is applied, the details will change colour to reflect the material.
Apply new material to iPhone details
Step 4
Repeat the same steps for the side buttons. For the side buttons, use the same colour material which was used for the iPhone body.
Apply new material to iPhone buttons
Step 5
For the back camera details, use the dark grey colour. Remember that you can change the colour of the material at a later date as well.
Apply new material to iPhone camera
15. How to Render the iPhone
Step 1
On the top menu bar, click on the Render Settings button. This brings up the render settings window.
Click on the Render Settings button
Step 2
In the render settings menu, you can change the options to what you need. First, tick the Save Settings to select a file location, file format and alpha channel.
Select Alpha Channel if you wish to keep the background see through.
Save settings
Step 3
In the Output Settings choose the resolution, height and width of the image.
Output settings
Step 4
To ensure that the render is nice and sharp go to the Anti-Aliasing settings. Select Cubic (Still Image) which can be found under Filter.
Anti-Aliasing settings
Step 5
To create the final image, click on the Render button. Remember to select the right view in the viewport (front, right, left or perspective etc.) and that you’re happy with the camera angle.
Choose a suitable angle in the viewport by navigating around the scene.
Click on the Render button
Step 6
If you want to have more control over how your final render looks, create a camera object to help. Find a suitable view using the viewport first and then click on the camera button.
This will create a camera using the current view in the viewport. Check out the camera settings to see how they affect the final render.
Click on the Camera button
The End Result
Wait for the final render to finish. Once the render is complete you can repeat the steps above and change the camera or the view port to create a new image from a different angle.
Throughout the course of the project you have successfully learnt how to:
Import Reference Images
Prepare for Modelling
Model an iPhone
Create Materials
Colour the Model
Render the iPhone
Feel free to share your own creations below. You can also export your image into Adobe Photoshop to enhance it further or to use it as part of a larger image.
Entangle yourself in a mystery set deep in the Wyoming wilderness
The year is 1989.
You are Henry and have retreated from your messy life to work as a fire lookout in the Wyoming wilderness. Your supervisor Delilah is available to you at all times over a small, handheld radio—your only contact with the world you’ve left behind. But when something strange draws you out of your lookout tower and into the forest, you’ll explore a wild and unknown environment, facing questions and making choices that can build or destroy the only meaningful relationship you have.
Features:
A stunning and beautiful wilderness environment that expands as you explore
A story where the choices you make shape the narrative and build relationships
An edge-of-your-seat mystery with a thrilling story and award winning script
A spectacular wilderness environment with secrets and discoveries to be made over every hill
Living, breathing characters brought to life by Cissy Jones (The Walking Dead: Season 1) and Rich Sommer (Mad Men)
Version 3.0.0 of the Fire Emblem Heroes game was released! Here are the changes you can expect:
1. Book III of the Story Has Begun After returning from their fight with Muspell, the order of Heroes is beset by a new enemy from Hel, the realm of the dead. Get 5-star Mythic Hero “Eir: Merciful Death” by clearing Chapter 1: Part 5 of Book III. Those who have not yet completed Book I or Book II can still access Book III. You won’t want to miss the opening movie in Chapter 1: Part 1!
2. Hero Fest To celebrate the release of Book III, a Hero Fest including Eir: Merciful Death will start 12/10/18 at 11:00 p.m. to 12/17/18 at 10:59 p.m.
During the active period, the initial appearance rate for the 5-star focus Heroes will be set to 5%! What’s more, you can get up to 7 First Summon Tickets as a Hero Fest Log-In Bonus. Please see Fire Emblem Heroes Updates for more details.
3. Mythic Heroes and Mythic Effects Have Been Added Mythic Heroes, beginning with Eir: Merciful Death, and Mythic Effects have been added. Only godlike characters from the Fire Emblem series can become Mythic Heroes. Mythic Heroes have special powers that manifest in Aether Raids. For more information, see the Mythic Heroes Are Here! notice.
4. First Summon Tickets Have Been Added A First Summon Ticket is a special item that replaces the 5 Orbs you spend during the first round of summoning. We will gift players with First Summon Tickets for use in the Hero Fest that starts on 12/10/18 at 11:00 p.m. Please see Fire Emblem Heroes Updates for more details.
5. Aether Raids A new structure, Escape Ladder (O), can be built in Aether Raids. If you build an Escape Ladder (O) and are defeated or surrender in battle, the battle’s Aether cost will be refunded. Escape Ladder (O) can be used up to three times per season.
6. Additional Heroes Can Be Summoned Using Heroic Grails The following Heroes can now be summoned using Heroic Grails:
Dorcas: Pumpkin Smasher
Aversa: Dark One
With a Log-In Bonus to celebrate the release of Ver. 3.0.0, you can receive Orbs up to 10 times between 12/10/18 at 11:00 p.m. and 12/31/18 at 10:59 p.m.!
We hope you continue to enjoy the Fire Emblem Heroes game! For more information about Fire Emblem Heroes, please visit the official site.
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