Maybe I'm wrong, but...

Started by RichTwo, December 10, 2008, 01:41:57 PM

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rcallicotte

@TU - Thanks for the link.

Everyone - What about the fact I have simply accumulated various tutorials and explanations into one big Word document over time? This has been since the very beginning two years ago.  But, these are not my tutorials.  These are from the many helpful people here on Planetside.  It would be cool, if I could find a way to upload this entire document.  It has loads of good stuff that anyone would find useful.

Yet, this is in Word format.   :o
So this is Disney World.  Can we live here?

Tangled-Universe

Well, what's the size then? :)
Since you're a kind of a forum-lurker (;)) I guess there's tons of info in that file :P

inkydigit

Quote from: Rich2 on December 10, 2008, 08:59:09 PM
.....and I am a big terrain enthusiast.....
understatement!!
you are terrain wizard!

rcallicotte

I'll check, but I think it's near 5M.  It has images in it, which were taken from the tutorials.  I tried to always give credit per article. 

Maybe I should sell it on eBay.   :P



Quote from: Tangled-Universe on December 11, 2008, 10:15:42 AM
Well, what's the size then? :)
Since you're a kind of a forum-lurker (;)) I guess there's tons of info in that file :P
So this is Disney World.  Can we live here?

pixelmonk

Quote from: calico on December 11, 2008, 02:16:31 PM
I'll check, but I think it's near 5M.  It has images in it, which were taken from the tutorials.  I tried to always give credit per article. 

Maybe I should sell it on eBay.   :P



Quote from: Tangled-Universe on December 11, 2008, 10:15:42 AM
Well, what's the size then? :)
Since you're a kind of a forum-lurker (;)) I guess there's tons of info in that file :P

pdf it or export it to html

lightning

I learn better via video tutorials I think planetside once they have released the final build of terragen 2 get to work on creating some basic video tutorials maybe some of our top members could help out?

rcallicotte

My Word document is about 1.2M and in HTML is 183K.
So this is Disney World.  Can we live here?

Tangled-Universe


rcallicotte

So this is Disney World.  Can we live here?

Volker Harun

Calico, thanks for your work ...

Rich2, I agree that most threads only include basic informations and you really need to go for trial and failure to get decent results.
That function thread of Efflux and me for example has lots of value to me - as I know, what I did ... but for anybody else it has almost no information to work with.

Unfortunatly I do not have the time for writing any tutorials at the moment without risking a personal financial disaster  ;)

Volker

schmeerlap

I'm hoping that when the final release is announced T2 will come with completed/comprehensive documentation with lots of tutorial examples of the more complex aspects of terrain building and surfacing. If I was a little more knowledgeable with the process of node networking and the construction of complex procedures I might consider compiling a book on T2 and publishing it at Lulu, or some other web book publishing site. As is my book on T2 would be shorter than the "Wisdom of George W Bush". But that's what's needed; a comprehensive manual which starts at the basics and carries the user through to the expert level.

John
I hope I realise I don't exist before I apparently die.

Oshyan

We do hope to make a Wiki available in the near future and that would be an ideal place for you all to start compiling a community-driven documentation project. We will be making available a complete set of basic documentation with the final release of TG2 itself, but to be clear this will simply be an extension of the documentation currently available, encompassing the basics of working with all aspects of TG2, as well as a complete node reference. We unfortunately won't be able to provide significant "tutorial" resources specific to the creation of any particular scene type, landform, or other specific natural phenomena. These resources may follow, but I think the community is really the best resource at this point. There is tremendous information in the forums here, it just needs to be distilled and organized. Hopefully the Wiki will make that possible. It will just need some dedicated people to maintain it. But one thing this community definitely does not lack is dedicated people!

- Oshyan