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Thu, 7 Feb 2002 20:29:28 GMT
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Hello all,
This has been discussed before and I just want everyone's feedback on this
to finalize it. Tim after our discussion last night this is what I have
come up with for the tutorial section on Ldraw's site. There are basiclly 5
distinct categories that I could come up with: Modeling, Rendering,
Animation, Part Creation, and Converting ldr to... The main force of the
tutorials will mostly likely focus on the 1st 3 categories.
In any case this is what I envision for labeling the tutorials
Animation Ani 1xx (Beginners)
Ani 2xx (Intermediate)
Ani 3xx (Advance)
Rendering Ren 1xx (Beginners)
Ren 2xx (Intermediate)
Ren 3xx (Advance)
Modeling Mod 1xx (Beginners)
Mod 2xx (Intermediate)
Mod 3xx (Advance)
Parts Par 1xx (Beginners)
Creation Par 2xx (Intermediate)
Par 3xx (Advance)
Converting Con 1xx (Beginners)
ldr to ...
The Beginner tutorials should be more a STEP-BY-STEP process or very
detailed explanations of the topic. Think of the beginner's level as "LDraw
for dummines". Anybody with basic computer and reading skills should be
able to do it. The Intermerdiate level is more like your general tutorials
found on a lot of websites that explain how to do something but don't
provide all the steps. While the Advance ones I think will end up being
articles more than tutorials on various topics in each category. In any
case to give you all a feel of what I know is done and being worked on here
is a list of possible detailed ideas for each topic. Please add more if you
feel that I missed something and also start thinking of which one YOU (yes,
YOU the person reading this post) can write up.
Ani 1xx
Simple Movement (Moving 1 object in 1 plane) [DONE]
Complex Movement (Moving camera; object is stationary) [DONE]
Step Movement (Creating ani bldg instructions [DONE]
Ani 2xx
Using Splines for movement of camera and/or objects
POV Light Tricks to create the illusion of movement (being worked on)
Adding sound to animations
Sound editing
Sound mixing
Ani 3xx
Creating a short-film
(This is probably NOT a tutorial but a documentary of how someone did it)
Storyboarding - Bldg the concept of the stroy
Model Production - creating the models
Pre-Rendering - 1st drafts of models and scenes
Rendering - creating the story
Special Effects - Adding special effects
Production - Bring it all together
Packaging
For Ren 1xx
Camera placement and commnads (being worked on)
Type of POV lights (being worked on)
Intro to POV - what is it
Intro to basic POV windows and commands
For Ren 2xx
Adding non-lego background to render
Adding Skys (earth-like skies, star fields, galaxies, etc.)
Add land (mountains, plains, hills, etc)
Adding water (lakes, oceans, rain, etc.)
(We would probably break this into Ren 2xx-I,II,III,IV etc. not sure yet)
Adding glow effects using POV lights
Adding effects using the 3rd party POV include libs.
Chris Colfax's City Creator
Chris Colfax's Water creator
Bluring the image using multiple images with average
Creating proffesional building instructions
Using MEGA-pov (creates cartoon-like images)
For Ren 3xx
Photoshop Tricks: Glow effects
Photoshop Tricks: Inserting Background
For Mod 1xx
Building your 1st model using a GUI editor (MLCad, LEOCad, etc...)
Building model instructions
For Mod 2xx
Creating sub-models (the MDP format)
Creating large models
Placement techniques for technic and mindstorm pieces
(those axles in holes, 45 deg tilt, etc...)
For Mod 3xx
???
For Par 1xx
How are parts created
The parts format
Creating a simple part (2x2 brick)
For Par 2xx
Creating a weird-shaped part
Part creation tips/tricks
How are LGEO parts created
For Par 3xx
???
For Con 1xx
Converting ldr to POV [DONE]
Converting ldr to ...
For the time being there is NO 'tutorial tracker' to determine who is doing
what. So I suggest that we use this fourm for it. Perhaps in a few weeks
we can add a page to ldraw. I think a downloadable excel sheet with all the
topics and writers would be find as a starting point. Tim if I maitain the
excel sheet you think it would be hard for you to create a download link for
it on your page?
-AHui
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Message has 6 Replies:
 | | RE: LDraw Tutorial Categories
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| (...) Looks good to me. However, consonants are more important than vowels when making abbreviations. I think for 3 letter codes, Anm, Rnd, Mdl, Prt, and Cnv are easier to interpret? 4 letter codes would be even easier: Anim, Rndr, Modl, Part, Conv (...) (23 years ago, 7-Feb-02, to lugnet.cad)
| | | Re: LDraw Tutorial Categories
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| (...) This is exactly what I'm doing right now! A "behind the scenes" diary describing my current work on a Datsville animation. I may make it in two versions: one brief on how I made the right steps, and one long with all mistakes and sidesteps (...) (23 years ago, 8-Feb-02, to lugnet.cad)
| | | Re: LDraw Tutorial Categories
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| (...) Hi Ahui and all others, I am currently writing a combined Con 1xx and Ren 1xx. The first two chapters are already (yesterday actually) send to Tim Courtney (did you recieve them Tim?). They cover a short explanation of the software (L3P, L3PAO (...) (23 years ago, 8-Feb-02, to lugnet.cad)
| | | Re: LDraw Tutorial Categories
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| Hi Ahui - Sorry for the delayed response. "Ahui Herrera" <jedi_agh@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:Gr6JL4.A19@lugnet.com... (...) All of the categories look fine, I just prefer Bram's four letter abbreviation syste: (ANIM, RNDR, MODL, PART, CONV). (...) (23 years ago, 8-Feb-02, to lugnet.cad)
| | | Re: LDraw Tutorial Categories
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| Okay I've posted the tentative tutorial track on my webiste until Tim is ready. It's a pdf file for those who don't have excel. Download from here: (URL) you CAN NOT GET TO THIS PAGE from my homepage only via this link) Also Jeroen de Haan I have (...) (23 years ago, 8-Feb-02, to lugnet.cad)
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