New Tutorial, let me know what you think.

[Pheagey]

Ok, it is nothing real advanced but its a new way Im thinking about doing tutorials. I need feedback on this one.
Click here for new tutorial.

Thanks.

[wdboyd]

Hi,

Outstanding. The Starshatter community could have greatly benefitted from such tutorials all along. [:)]

[2Harry]

Yes,

Very nice. I'm really anticipating explaination of the more mysterious (black?) aspects of Magic.

Just one little thing: a cube actually has 6 sides (faces) No sweat.

[gillbo]

Yes, very handy for those just begining

[Pheagey]

The cube thing fixed.

Glad everyone likes it. I'll work on some more as time permits; and I do plan on getting into the diffrent aspects of magic later on.

[Dragonlead]

Pheagey,

If you're interested, I still have the old tutorials I did for the original SSC before the site got changed over. They're Word docs and might be easier for folks to use if they are on dial-up (like me.) I would be happy to email them to you. Your stuff is way slick compared to mine, but the info is basically the same.

V/R

[Pheagey]

@DragonLead. Sure send it to my eMail. I'll use it to make sur eI dont forget something or misrepresent something.

[turgotZ]

Nice tutorial, What program did you use to make it? I had used Wink to create the accutrans tutorial I made for converting wrl file to 3ds for magic.

[Dragonlead]

Pheag...you got mail

V/R

UPDATE: Pheag...I got an error message after I sent it to you. Is there a size limit on attachments? or do you have a new address?

V/R

[Pheagey]

Ok, did everyone like the way I did the tutorial?
Im going to stick with the software I used but now for the next question:

Should it be the way i have it now? Or should be it be more or a class lesson w/ a quiz at the end, or even an interactive presentation of each point covered in each tutorial. I need ideas for presentation types...thanks...

[2Harry]

Well,

I always like tutorials that end up making something of use. I know its a lot more work, but it seems a finished tutorial object lets you see the relationships between the tools better than just a set of disconnected explanations. IMHO [:D]

[Pheagey]

Another tutorial for everyone. this one cover the File option of Magic (including Import).
Click here for it.

Let me know what you think.

[Dragonlead]

Pheagey,

I like the psuedo-interactive look. I wish I could have done that with mine. I agree with 2Harry that a tut that ends up with something like a useable ship would work best. I would even be willing to do a follow-on that takes your end product and I would do the deffing as a tutorial to give somebody a working ship at the end of it all.

V/R

[Pheagey]

Thanks Dragonlead. Im comming up with a plan to have a more interactive tutoriasl once I get into deeper poly editing. But for now here's another one for everyone to scope out and give me feedback on.


Click here for a tutorial on Magic's Edit Menu and a little bit of poly editing.

[Dragonlead]

Looks good. There were a few times where the text boxes opened onto a white screen, but I'm using dial-up and it might just be a slow connection.

V/R

One more thing...what version of Magic do you have? The function you don't know in the tut is listed as "seal selection" on my version. They could do similar things.

V/R

[Pheagey]

@Dragonlead:Nope, you are correct, some of the slides are blank..I'll have to fix that when I get home. Thanks for finding that....edit: or..herm... maybe its 'cause they are nto loading at the preload screen. I ran thru it again and they all showed up....odd...


Im using M1.6 for these tutorials since it provides the most editing options atm. I'll do another on M2.0 once I get M1.6 covered enof.
Im crossing my fingers that the next magic version will be avaliable soon. i.e M2+editing options...milo, hint hint...

[Pheagey]

Well here's another one. I did this a little diffrently than the other so its worth checking out. Let me know what you all think.

Click here for part 4.