Beginner Video Tutorials by Neuspadrin

[neuspadrin]

http://www.planetside.co.uk/wiki/index.php/Beginner_Video_Tutorials_by_Neuspadrin

Been a project of mine past couple days.

I'm trying to get the videos uploaded somewhere available to download as a compressed file for offline viewing, but my internet keeps messing up on the file.  Will work on it later and post the link in addition to the other downloads.

Enjoy.  Hope they help.

[folder]

Great Job, and a definite help/advertisement for those new to T2 - it fleshes out the written documentation
now do one on fake stones - thats is still killing me

folder

[neuspadrin]

Ill put that on my to do list... thing is they puzzle me too at times

[rcallicotte]

It looks like you've done a good job.  I didn't go through all of your documentation, but it looks like it's repetitive in a good way.  The more points of view for a beginning in TG2 could prove to be a good thing for everyone.

Did you ever go through Oshyan's beginner's tutorial?

[neuspadrin]

Nope.  The "first scene" tutorial got posted after I had already started my project and done the first sections.  Which is why when I show the documentation areas the link for it is missing

Though that might be a good link to add to the useful links area *runs off to link it*

[Henry Blewer]

I watched your videos. I think you did a good job with them. I did not think to just create shaders for populations. I make them first. Hills for vertical, sands for the flatter areas, and grasses for final coloring and object distributions. Your way looks much simpler! Thanks for showing what the Y-Axis checkbox does. I just assumed that y was always from the planets center to the stars.

[al91]

hey great job.!

[rcallicotte]

The reason I ask is that your tutorial follows a similar approach, but Oshyan's is just step by step all in one document.  His was the first tutorial I used, so it seems like the best one I've seen.  It's good to have other points of view, too.

Nope.  The "first scene" tutorial got posted after I had already started my project and done the first sections.  Which is why when I show the documentation areas the link for it is missing

Though that might be a good link to add to the useful links area *runs off to link it*

[mt_sabao]

excellent idea!!!

[neuspadrin]

I found the culprit stopping me from uploading big files: my antivirus. 

As much as I love kaspersky, sometimes its a pain

Anyways, the upload is currently under way, and soon in a few minutes I will update the wiki with a link to the full download of the tutorial for offline viewing.  It will consist of the 6 videos (wmv format), jpg's of the renders, the pixel filters download, and the final tgd file.  The download is approximately 87mb.  I've used 7zip to compress it, which is available to download here

*update*
upload finished and the files are now available on the wiki.

[neuspadrin]

now do one on fake stones - thats is still killing me
folder

I've started work on one, but not a video tutorial.  Theres just way too much complexity to get it good in a video, and I have a ton of sample renders to put in so the people can see what each setting does.  It will be released as a pdf, and its currently on page 6 Quite a lot of images are in those pages though It sort of is a documentation of my experimentation just recently with fake stones and how to use them effectively.

[Henry Blewer]

Thank you for taking the time to do these! I have found them helpful.

[Rain]

  Thank you very much Neuspadrin, I was a Terragen 0.9 user and got that down fairly well over the years, but T2 has the furniture moved around. Your videos were very helpful. It takes some of the frustration out of the trial and error method of learning when someone explains along the way.

[Arandil]

Thanks a ton for these!     I'm just getting my nephews into TG2, and these will be perfect attention fixers for them. 

[Jack]

these are great! have these been sticked yet?