[Darkage]

Originally posted by Unkown Target
yea, if a lot of people want to know how to do something, then they obviously don't know how to do it:D;)

I got 2 tutorials done now. one is posted here and the other i just finished. There both prety detailed.

[Ryx]

Originally posted by darkage
It's weird that not much interest is shown, while in the poll MD posted allot of you wanted a tutorial section. or am i missing something here?

They're waiting for tutorials

About that tut you made.
It might be tad large @ 10 Mb. Put up one without that ani for 56kers.

Just too bad I don't use Lightwave

[Darkage]

Originally posted by Ryx


They're waiting for tutorials

About that tut you made.
It might be tad large @ 10 Mb. Put up one without that ani for 56kers.

Just too bad I don't use Lightwave

It's an AVI:D wel i wanted to show them the end result this way the know they have done the tutorial right:)

[Fineus]

Originally posted by Ryx
They're waiting for tutorials

Indeed, not everyone is good at making tutorials and not everyone has the software to make them either - myself included (well, as far as modelling programs goes). But I'm sure that once things get started we can look forward to building up quiet a database

Oh, and it might be a bit late to mention this now but can people try and keep the image size down as well as keeping things consistant. As much as it'll be great to have all these tutorials coming in it'll look a tad scruffy if they all vary drastically in image usage and style.

[Darkage]

Originally posted by Thunder

Indeed, not everyone is good at making tutorials and not everyone has the software to make them either - myself included (well, as far as modelling programs goes). But I'm sure that once things get started we can look forward to building up quiet a database

Oh, and it might be a bit late to mention this now but can people try and keep the image size down as well as keeping things consistant. As much as it'll be great to have all these tutorials coming in it'll look a tad scruffy if they all vary drastically in image usage and style.

if you are new to Lightwave or any other progam. I think it should containt enough pics to let people see what you are talking about. if i start to talk about the grap editor in LW and the user never seen/used it before it's handy to let them see how the settings should look like.

And the pics in my doc file are also outside the doc file for a more clearer view.

[Fineus]

Yeah, what I mean't to say was thumbnail things if possible, keep them small (we don't need to see your entire desktop if what you've taking a picture of is 100x300 or whatever), know what I mean?

[Vertigo1]

Agreed.  I'm almost done with the template now.  All thats left is some minor images.  I should be done with it later today.

[Vertigo1]

Template is online!

Download!

Now get to work!

[Sandwich]

Originally posted by Thunder
Oh, and it might be a bit late to mention this now but can people try and keep the image size down as well as keeping things consistant. As much as it'll be great to have all these tutorials coming in it'll look a tad scruffy if they all vary drastically in image usage and style.

It's not a bit late if you take the tutorial I did as an example for everyone. No, seriously - take a look and see if that's the type of image sizes you had in mind.

It's in the siggy, BTW...

[Fineus]

I think thats ok, what I really think is best is thumbnailing large images and trying to crop images where possible so that only the important illustration of what your looking at at the time is included.

As far as consistency in writing goes, this is hard to pull off - so I don't think we should try and lay down any rules for it. As long as everything is clearly explained so that a newbie could pick it up and understand it, it'll be fine

[Darkage]

Harg !! you need a HTML editor for this.
1. i don't have one.
2. i suck at HTML big time.
3. i used a word document for my tutorials and imo is much easyer, i had this idea of just uploading the file so it shows up in a TUT section whit a discription on what thentut is about so people can download it.

But that is just me.

[Fineus]

Since most people seem to be into the idea that they're hosted on HLP I think they'll be using HLP formatting anyways which will mean some HTML work on our part as well as a little tweaking of everyones submissions (nothing drastic mind you), but if you want to submit it in HTML form we can then put it into HTML alongwith thumbnails and so on later on. It'll take longer to add each one this way but the overall effect should be much more impressive and easier for those using the tuts to cope with.

Is that ok with everyone?

[Ryx]

ok, html works for me. Just gotta learn some HTML... or use Word in conjunction with Frontpage

[Darkage]

Originally posted by Thunder
Since most people seem to be into the idea that they're hosted on HLP I think they'll be using HLP formatting anyways which will mean some HTML work on our part as well as a little tweaking of everyones submissions (nothing drastic mind you), but if you want to submit it in HTML form we can then put it into HTML alongwith thumbnails and so on later on. It'll take longer to add each one this way but the overall effect should be much more impressive and easier for those using the tuts to cope with.

Is that ok with everyone?

Sounds prety good to me.
O well, i should proberly learn abit of HTML even though it doesn't interest me to realy learn it ( or i am just stupid ). As i am more interested in writing a TUT's and rendering/animating stuff;)

[Sandwich]

Originally posted by Thunder
I think thats ok, what I really think is best is thumbnailing large images and trying to crop images where possible so that only the important illustration of what your looking at at the time is included.

Yup. Like this.

[Ryx]

I'm gonna start on a 3ds max tut.

feel free to make requests

Edit:

Do You want the larger pics to open in a new window or the same, when clicking a thumbnail?

[Vertigo1]

darkage: Now would be a good time to learn.  I already sent you a link to a large resource that has dozens of free/shareware HTML editors to choose from.  Hell, if you're having that hard a time then just remove the images from the document (leave references to the file names of course) and send the whole thing to me over ICQ and I'll convert it for you.

Thunder: Is there anything that you need me to change on the template? (so you, or anyone else, won't have to edit every single submission.)

As for available staff to upload the tuts....why not create a Tutorials dir and create an account so that I can do the uploading myself (save you guys the hastle).  And if you're worried about security, then just grant me access to that dir only.  Just something for ya to think about.

[wEvil]

I can help with tuts for


3D studio MAX 4
Softimage XSI (1.5 to 2.02)
Mental Ray
Afterburn (volumics plugin for MAX)
Renderman
Digital Fusion

[Ryx]

Originally posted by wEvil
I can help with tuts for


3D studio MAX 4
Softimage XSI (1.5 to 2.02)
Mental Ray
Afterburn (volumics plugin for MAX)
Renderman
Digital Fusion

Wouldn't mind seeing a few Afterburn tuts.
I have can make some things with but not as well as I like. Especially, Exlposions, Thrusterflames thing.

[Fozzy]

My tutorial is going to be MASAVE it wil contain over 20 subjects covering all major aspects of model devlopment and tutorials on how to use tools and PCS (If kazan lets me). oh and it looks like a real HLP page because i am using a edited CSS script i got from the site.

(go to the main page and view source to find the "rel" link in the header that contains the url to the .css document)