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Writing tutorials

Posted: Sun Mar 30, 2008 3:27 pm
by Sph!nx
Still having trouble with my creative blockade, so I've decided to write some tutorials.

I've already written three introductional tutorials some time ago: Milkshape Introduction, Milkshape Interface and Faces and Shapes. I know these tutorials needs a lot of polishing but I was content with them at the time. What do you think?

I'm already working on a 'static prop' tutorial, a wooden table. Next I plan on writing a simple animated prop tutorial and an animated character tutorial. Much later, I plan on documenting what I've learned of RF.

I would very much like to hear your comments about this!

Re: Writing tutorials

Posted: Sun Mar 30, 2008 3:42 pm
by bernie
Good idea sph!nx this forum really needs a tute like this (although how many noobs will read it before asking elementary questions is anybody's guess :roll: ). Very good so far. Perhaps you should go into depth about all the menu options too at an early stage, particularly exporting, importing and merging.

Re: Writing tutorials

Posted: Sun Mar 30, 2008 9:01 pm
by Sph!nx
Okay, Ive done the first two parts of the static prop tutorial, a table :

Modelling a table - Introduction (a simple introduction. Needs some work later on)
Modelling a table - Making the mesh

This tutorial will eventually consist of five parts. Part three will cover making and naming groups. Part 4 will cover UV mapping and Part Five will be an indication of how to create the skin and how to get it on the model.

Suggestions, questions, crits?

Re: Writing tutorials

Posted: Sun Mar 30, 2008 9:11 pm
by bernie
Great stuff. BTW LithUnwrap comes with RF it's in the tools folder so you dont need a link.

Re: Writing tutorials

Posted: Sun Mar 30, 2008 9:25 pm
by Sph!nx
Thanks!

I know, but I intend to write these tutorials for a wider audience. Compiling and adding the models in RF will be a subject for the tutorials specificely for RF, I intend to write later on.

Edit :
Perhaps there might be others who would like to write and 'donate' a tutorial? Would be cool if we, as a community, could create some kinf of knowledge database. I had this idea in the past but it was a bit too big to do on my own.

Just an idea.

Posted: Tue Apr 01, 2008 10:35 pm
by Sph!nx
I didn't have a lot of time to work on the tutorial but I've got the third part done. Making and naming groups. It's a bit short, but it covers everything there is about groups.

Re: Writing tutorials

Posted: Wed Apr 02, 2008 1:05 am
by darksmaster923
Sph!nx wrote:Thanks!

I know, but I intend to write these tutorials for a wider audience. Compiling and adding the models in RF will be a subject for the tutorials specificely for RF, I intend to write later on.

Edit :
Perhaps there might be others who would like to write and 'donate' a tutorial? Would be cool if we, as a community, could create some kinf of knowledge database. I had this idea in the past but it was a bit too big to do on my own.

Just an idea.
ok but they suck and there scripting tutorials
http://darksmaster923.987mb.com/e107/e1 ... .php?cat.5

Re: Writing tutorials

Posted: Wed Apr 02, 2008 5:22 pm
by Sph!nx
I beg you pardon but what sucks? Not the tutorial I'm writing?

Re: Writing tutorials

Posted: Wed Apr 02, 2008 6:16 pm
by bernie
I think he was refering to his own scripting tutes.

Re: Writing tutorials

Posted: Wed Apr 02, 2008 7:31 pm
by Sph!nx
Ah, sorry. Don't know where I was with my head ...

Thanks darksmaster932! They will be added if some more people participate. We need quite some tutorials if we want to make a collection or database.

Re: Writing tutorials

Posted: Thu Apr 03, 2008 7:24 pm
by Sph!nx
omg... I just cleaned up my websites folder and I've overwritten the tutorials folder. No problem, I have the other ones backed up but I was writing the table tutorial in this folder as well... In other words, I can start over :(