3rd DVD announcement, detailed plan for DVD 2

Big news – it’s now clear that just one or two DVDs will not be enough for everything I want to show you, so there’s now gonna be three DVDs full of TP glory!

You should think of them as a Beginner (the one already released), Intermediate (the second one coming up) and Advanced (the last one). As the process is going, I realized that I’d need that space to realize my full plan, and instead of cutting back and making a half-hearted effort, we added a third DVD, which you should really enjoy.

And now to the other piece of news – what’s gonna be in these DVDs, exactly? The plan for the 2nd DVD is the following:

Raycasting – the intersect node. Example with projecting particles on the ground, hovercraft effect
Referencing. Orbit node ease-in, valley airstrike examples
Motion inheritance. The motion inheritance node – example with car and leaves
Intermediate generation and positioning – Particle draw, Matterwaves, Spline, surface and volume positioning, by particle shape
Particles driving scene objects. Object to particle node
Shape collision, sampling, mass
Pre-broken fragmentation – fragment, blurp
Procedural fragmentation 1 – Volumebreaker
Procedural fragmentation 2 – Volumecell and VolumeActivate
Caching. Cache layers and cache elements, shape on birth, DS as an FX wrapper
Joints – Basic SC joints, use of joint counter and joint data to manipulate them
Joint structures. Procedural jointing system for creating and destroying a jointed structure
PhysX dynamics
Particle-based soft bodies. Vertex to particle, SC deformation
Intermediate object interaction. Collision map, displacement, deform modifier, deform map
Cycles, time and iteration based. Iterator and counter nodes. Examples for iterator cycle and condition cycle through groups
Intermediate non-linear animation. Timer1, time loop, geo instance nla options
Intermediate particle interaction. Pattach, psearch, pselection nodes
Custom data streams. Data channels and memory node. Example with setting global controls
TP to FumeFX
FumeFX to TP
Switching. One to x and x to one nodes. Example with alternate controls
TD tool. Example with a rocket launcher.
Intermediate demo project. Death ray house destruction shot!

Of course, I reserve the right to change that around a bit, but overall that should be it. Plans for the 3rd DVD – the advanced one – will be posted after DVD2 release.

Enjoy and comment! And if there’s anything specific you need to be touched in the DVDs, and I haven’t thought about it – feel free to request