Beginner Tutorial - By Robert Alvord

No problem. I have a couple more tutorials on www.cgcookie.com now.

- Boolean
- Performing a Ringcut

New ones that will be showing up there soon are:

- Basic Turret
- Making Selections
- Shell Tool
- Performing a Disconnect
 
Thanks, Terry. :)

All but the shell tutorial are up now. I'm going to have to get busy again LOL.
 
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Just playing around with effects myself. Must do some work LOL and stop playing in Cheetah :smile:
 

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It's the best way to learn. I did the same thing...picked a simple aspect of Cheetah to focus on and did it until I either got it, or had to put it to the side for later learning. Textures and materials are already very impressive, but ver 5 is going to hold so much more for us. Nice render, by the way. I suggest turning off the camera light.
 
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alvordr said:
It's the best way to learn. I did the same thing...picked a simple aspect of Cheetah to focus on and did it until I either got it, or had to put it to the side for later learning. Textures and materials are already very impressive, but ver 5 is going to hold so much more for us. Nice render, by the way. I suggest turning off the camera light.
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Thanks, yes it's coming along . . . slowly. I trashed the file, I really need to learn more about lights. It make so much difference. It still baffles me a little.
 
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Don't worry. Me too. Frank and Luke really know lighting.
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Yes indeed those guys have really helped me out. But I still find it puzzling. What gets me is this: I take the Cheetah Paw jas file, copy paste it in a new file, check all the properties of every tag, light and material. And still it doesn't look the same as the original. That I just don't get. I bet Frank or Luke could figure it out in seconds. But I'm sure the penny will drop one day. :confused:
 
Hi.
You might want to know that these example files are from the very early stages of Cheetah3d´s developing. Martin kept the old lights for compatibility - but the light system was rewritten in the meantime so one can´t achieve the absolut same results with the newer versions - for instance.
(That´s being said "we" will make new examples and swap the older ones for the upcoming major release.)

Cheers
Frank
 
frank beckmann said:
Hi.
You might want to know that these example files are from the very early stages of Cheetah3d´s developing. Martin kept the old lights for compatibility - but the light system was rewritten in the meantime so one can´t achieve the absolut same results with the newer versions - for instance.
(That´s being said "we" will make new examples and swap the older ones for the upcoming major release.)

Cheers
Frank
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Ah, I see. Well that makes me feel better. I spent ages trying to get the same effect. The new version, can you pay for the update or do you have to buy it again?

Cheers

Terry
 
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Ah, I see. Well that makes me feel better. I spent ages trying to get the same effect. The new version, can you pay for the update or do you have to buy it again?
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All I found is this from the Cheetah3d.com news sections.
I don´t know if this is up to date - but I think so.

Cheers
Frank
 

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Ah, I see. Well that makes me feel better. I spent ages trying to get the same effect. The new version, can you pay for the update or do you have to buy it again?

Cheers

Terry
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The Cheetah3D website states that if you bought ver 4 during the special sale price ($99, instead of $149), then you get the upgrade to 5 free.

Reference:
"To celebrate the 5-th anniversary of Cheetah3D we offer Cheetah3D 4.x (including free update to Cheetah3D 5.0) for a limited time for just 99$. So don't hesitate and get your copy of Cheetah3D and dive into the third dimension.", http://www.cheetah3d.com/news.php

I don't want to assume that this is retroactive, but it might be.
 
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alvordr said:
The Cheetah3D website states that if you bought ver 4 during the special sale price ($99, instead of $149), then you get the upgrade to 5 free.

Reference:
"To celebrate the 5-th anniversary of Cheetah3D we offer Cheetah3D 4.x (including free update to Cheetah3D 5.0) for a limited time for just 99$. So don't hesitate and get your copy of Cheetah3D and dive into the third dimension.", http://www.cheetah3d.com/news.php

I don't want to assume that this is retroactive, but it might be.
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Hmm, I think I'll contact Martin and ask him. But for now I'm still getting a grip on version 4. I'll wait to see what the other guys say about 5. But thanks anyway.
 
Hello, all. It's been a while, and I haven't been able to kick out as much in the way of tutorials, but I've done some, which I plan to "tweak" and get published.

On that note, I also decided that, although there are tons of wood textures out there, most of the free ones aren't that great. I Googled tutorials on how to do this Photoshop and found that the results just didn't look all that great. Thus, I set out to do this on my own. I'm not quite where I want to be with it yet, but here's a sneak peak. If interested, I'll do up a quick static tutorial on how I did it.
 

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Great tutorials!

Hey Robert these are great tutorials!
I've just downloaded the Cheetah demo but thanks to your vids I'm pretty sure I'm gunna take the plunge.

So... thank you! :)
 
No problem. Glad I could help someone else. Most of it was/is a journey for me, too. You may want to wait until some fixes are in place for Cheetah, if you're using Snow Leopard, though.
 
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No problem. Glad I could help someone else. Most of it was/is a journey for me, too. You may want to wait until some fixes are in place for Cheetah, if you're using Snow Leopard, though.
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yeah I'm noticing a lot of people complaining about Cheetah/Snow Leopard compatibility... I guess those two felines don't get along!! :p

Thankfully I'm still on regular Leopard and have no plan to switch til it looks like all those quirks are sorted out
 
Then you'll have a great time with it. It's been one of the biggest reasons I've considered going into 3D modeling and animation.
 
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