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3rd DVD announcement, detailed plan for DVD 2

admin — Sun, 27 Jun 2010 07:12:31 +0000

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

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admin — Sun, 06 Jun 2010 23:05:39 +0000

And at tthe end, it happened! In the same day as my EUE talk about destruction with TP4, it got released and my DVD with it – how’s that about timing! The announcement from Cebas is here:

http://www.cebas.com/?pid=hot_news&nid=364

And the Eat3D one is here:

http://eat3d.com/tp4_intro

Now, I think I have some explaining to do. First, the more obvious – the unpleasant itchy delay in releasing it was obviously caused by the wait for the TP4 release. And since it’s a TP4 DVD, it wasn’t really possible to release it before TP4 itself, was it

Then about this ’1st of 2′ business. When I started making the DVD, I came up with a plan that I think goes through TP in its entirety in the best way, teaching-wise. With that plan shaping up and progressing, it became obvious that just one DVD will not be sufficient to cover it all. And rather then shortening and compromising it, it was decided to split it up. If you look at the contents list of the released DVD, you’ll see that there are two chapters – and these are the ‘Introduction’ and ‘Beginner’ chapters. The ‘Intermediate’ and ‘Advanced’ chapters will be on the next DVD. And yes, the names should be revealing enough that these are gonna be the more interesting and advanced ones. And the good part is that now that TP4 is out, there’s gonna be no more conspirative delays! It should be out by the end of July. I will publish the plan itself these days, to drool you up a little

That much for now. And whoever has any questions about TP4, the DVD or anything remotely in my competence – don’t be shy