Brave Hearts

The people of India, living in the country peacefully with solace because of the services and sacrifices of courageous soldiers securing at borders. This is a small tribute to the soldiers guarding at a war zone which is at an altitude of 5400 meters and covered densely by snow.
"Quartered in snow , Silent to remain , when the Bugle calls they shall raise and march again." These are the words that are engraved on the stone memorial at the Indian army base camp in the world's most extremely highest, coldest, toughest and deadliest war zone - SIACHEN, largest non polar glacier.
Indian Army is deployed in world's highest battle ground for years. They have mastered the art of survival and battle in the dead land. In Siachen Indian army spends as much as 80% of its time preparing soldiers of deployment.

Soldiers in this war zone serve amidst a temperature ranging from -50° to -60° Celsius.
In Siachen, the weather is too harsh that you are at the risk of getting a deadly frostbite if your bare skin touches the gun trigger for just over 10 seconds. Annual snowfall in this region is over 36 feet. The normal oxygen level in this war zone is just about 10% of the oxygen level in plains. Most of the soldiers die due to extreme weather conditions rather than the cross firing and many more who serving in this area suffer from sleep deprivation, memory loss, severe and sudden weight loss, speech loss etc.,

For Indian forces deployed in Siachen, it is less of a challenge to watch out for the frail Pakistani forces but to just stay atop this 76 kilometers long glacier at 5, 400 meters altitude (nearly twice the altitude of Ladakh and Kargil) in itself means you have to defy all of your physical, mental and spiritual limits.
They use strict protocols while serving in Siachen. Ice is boiled to get the daily use water. Food and ammunition supply is done through Air support where fresh food is something you cannot even dream. IAF and Army Aviation Corps are responsible for the logistics support for the troops. Parachute are used to drop food packets if there is no scope for a helicopter landing. Many times they have just 20-30 seconds for the aerial drop as they may see open gun fires from Pakistan. Rifles and machine guns are defrosted immediately in boiling water to prevent from jamming.
Physical exercise and lack of appetite is a common scenario for our brave soldiers. Yet they get use to it. Kerosene is the primary fuel used by the soldiers. A 121km pipeline was installed from Siachen base camp to the glacier. Alcohol use is prohibited while serving in Siachen. Specialy designed suits and boots from DRDO are used in duty.
In the last 30 years, 846 soldiers have sacrificed their lives in Siachen. Death of these soldiers are declared as war casualties although they die due to severe climate and not because of war.
Despite of these extreme hostilities, the Indian Army has never experienced shortage of soldier volunteers to serve in Siachen region.
Indian Armed forces are always ready for any challenge. It's not a office job where they look for comfort. Its about serving motherland at any cost.
We can proudly say that we are in safe hands and we must pay a heartfelt salute to the brave hearts guarding INDIA at frontiers.
JAI HIND

First Attempt In Learning

This is a very rare failure story of a person who doesn't need any adjectives to describe his exemplary contributions to  India's space and defense missions , no adjectives  are enough to highlight the humility and generosity  of former first citizen of India , popularly known as Missile Man of India , who has won the every Indian's heart and called as People's President , a perfect embodiment of success, he is none other than Dr. Avul Pakir Jainulabdeen Abdul Kalam.

 Mr Kalam's dearest and deepest desire is to become a pilot in Indian Air Force, but he failed in interview. Interview was held by Indian Air force for 8 pilot posts , 25 members attended that interview in which Kalam bagged 9th position , the reason behind it is that the interviewers are looking for some kind of smartness in the personality of candidate along with the qualifications and engineering knowledge. At that time he was in a deep disappointment, which took him some time to comprehend that the opportunity to join the Air Force was slipped from his hand.
In his words he wrote like this, " I had failed to realize my dream of becoming an Air Force pilot. " in his autobiography with Arun Tiwari , WINGS OF FIRE.

Later he was selected in the interview of DTD&P(Air) [ Directorate of Technical Development & Production ] as Senior Scientific Assistant.

Not only that, he faced many unsuccessful attempts in his most successful voyage from Paper boy in a small coastal town to President of largest democratic country in the world.
Finally Kalam defined FAIL as "First Attempt In Learning".

Game Development: Where to start!

Getting started with game development? 

Wondering where to start?

 Just take a look at our post once

First Thing: Choose a game engine

There are a lot of game engines out there, like Unity 3D. UDK, CryEngine etc.

But which one is best for you? As you are a beginner, you can start with game engine like Unity or Game Maker: Studio. What is the difference between them? Simple, Game Maker is for making 2D games but with unity you can do both 2D and 3D. Game Maker dont need any programming knowledge. Unity needs C# or Javascript knowledge. Unity is more flexible. You can make games much faster with Game maker. You can develop games for major platforms with both the engines.

Finally Unity is completely free. And Game Maker: Studio is not completely free.

Both of the engines got their pros and cons. But learning Unity is easy cause it got tons of tutorials.

Learn Things:

Now you need to learn how to make games with that engine. You can always find tutorials in youtube and in many other third party websites. Nothing is easy, hardwork is the key to success. No matter how much time it takes dont give up in the middle. Learn all basics, start with simple games. Soon you will be a pro. But it will take time and effort. 

What about graphics?

You can make your own graphics, or you can buy them on stores. If you want you can learn making them. You need to learn pixel art or vector art for 2D games, for 3D games you need to learn modelling. For 2D you can use Gimp, Illustrator, CorelDraw and for 3D use Blender, 3DS Max, cinema 4D.

Make a game plan:

Now its time to make a game plan. Play your favorite games. Try to make your game unique and fun. Take as much time as you want, but you must make the best. Your first game may not be the best, but it isnt your last game. Explore more, make new. All you have to do is, never give up. 

Publish your game:

Next step is to publish your game. You can publish your game on Steam greenlight, Windows 8.1, iOS, Android or Windows Phone. Let your game explore the world. Before publishing your game as your friends to play your game. Take their opinion. Polish your game. Then release it.

Getting started with Vector Graphics

Do you want to start with Vector Graphics? Looking for good software?  Take a look at these once.

Adobe Illustrator is a vector graphics editor developed and marketed by Adobe Systems. Adobe Illustrator is one of the best for beginners and professionals too. This is not a free software.

Here is one of the vector art made in illustrator. You can find some tutorials here.

And the next software is CorelDraw. CorelDraw is a vector graphics editor developed and marketed by Corel Corporation of Ottawa, Canada. It is also similar to Illustrator. It is also used by professionals and beginners. I personally use CorelDraw. I am not a professional but here is my art that I made with CorelDraw for my game. Here are some tutorials.

CorelDraw is not a free software.
There  are some other free softwares like Inkscape

Do you want to learn VFX? You just wondering where to start? Here is where you should start.

Adobe After Effects is the best choice for starters. 

Most of the professionals and starters use After Effects, it is one of the best software for VFX and motion graphics.You can get After effects here

Looking for tutorials? Just go to Video Copilot.net 

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Video Copilot got more than 150 tutorials, you can learn lots of amazing stuff over there.
They are completely free.

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Thank you.