Wings3d Channel Tutorials

[Fonte Boa]

As i said, my intention is to re-record all the Youtube Wings3d Channel videos, now in full HD resolution and with audio.

This is the first one. Short presentation about work area, work modes and Camera settings.

Please dont laugh of my very poor english: any feedback is very appreciated. All these new series of videos will be hosted at youtube:
www.youtube.com/wings3dchannel

For those that already work with Wings, it is a very annoying video, but i hope these initial ones can be useful for newbies.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VSue4k89lew

[Fonte Boa]

I'll intend to organize the things along time according a general "documentation" approach...
Three more ones about a strong Wings set of resources: Select operations.

002 Starting Wings3D: Select operations (1)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HF_5cV2OxIU

002 Starting Wings3D: Select operations (2)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sY3-Jl_4pUQ

002 Starting Wings3D: Select operations (3)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CPPWu474eB4

[Fonte Boa]

Continuing the intro (serie 001), a video about the file preferences.txt:
001 Wings3D Intro: Preferences (B)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Szswz3Uki90


And continuing the videos about Select operations (serie 002)
002 Starting Wings3D: Select operations (4)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F1JzcvYqszk

002 Starting Wings3D: Select operations (5)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qOi1zuHOk2g

[Fonte Boa]

I am beggining two another series: 003, about Subdivision, and 004, about how to set hotkeys. The other ones, about User Interface (001) and Select operations (002), for sure will receive more videos.

003 Wings3d: Subdivision (1)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fhK7sqS1eDM

003 Wings3D: Subdivision (2)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ab5BB_D-_Ro

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003 Wings3D: Subdivision (3)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kTfcaoT2Xgs


004 Wings3D: Creating hotkeys (1)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GUfxAw2t-T8

[Fonte Boa]

With these initial videos, some points stablished by Optigon at his "Documentation Strategy" thread (http://wings3d.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=43) were covered:

Subdivision Modeling (missing some points)
Make a Cube (done)
Using the Camera (missing some points)

Rotate
Pan
Zoom
Aiming the Camera
Viewing Along an Axis

Viewing Modes (done)

Smoothed Preview
Wireframe
Orthographic

Selection Basics (missing Bounding Box)

Selection Modes
Mouse Selection and Deselection
Deselect Using the Spacebar
Bounding Box Selection
Increase and Decrease Selection
Edge Loops and Rings

[Fonte Boa]

Over an hour recorded/published and no feedback?!
Do you think, old wingers, those pieces can be useful for newbies?

[greytery]

"Old Wingers" ? ... Maybe you are asking the wrong people for advice about whether this is useful for newbies. As per the song by Jethro Tull: " ...your wise men don't know how it feels to be as thick as a brick".

Now, as a Newbie, and thicker than most, I'm in a good position to say how much I appreciated this quick tour.
I don't know where you're sitting so I can't reach out and pat you on the back. So: ... Pat! Pat! Pat! Thank you.

At the moment I'm still looking at the 'Getting Started' documentation. User manuals are OK for some people, but seeing the program in action is good.

[micheus]

Fonte, I think yes - they are useful for newbies, beginners,...

I would like just make an addition for "003 Wings3d: Subdivision (1)". You are talking about to model by using proxy mode in order to create a low level object and viewing how it will looks like after you smooth it. Isn't it?

So, at 5:00 you show us how the object will looks like after some smooth (3 times), and we know that the default proxy level for Quick Smooth Preview is one (1 time).
What I think you could add is the Preferences->Misc->OpenCL proxy level, that can show us that 3 levels of smooth when we use the Quick Smooth Preview option. But, just if the OpenCL library is available, of course.

[Fonte Boa]

Thanks for the kind words: you cant imagine how important they are for me... Thanks, greytery, for make me smile while reading your feedback.

Micheus: i'm using 1.4.1 release. Why dont i have an "Open CL proxy level" here, in preferences/misc tab? Was this implemented to 1.4.1?

Do you remember when Quick Smoothed Preview was working with disctinct smooth levels? Was that a Scorpius ad-on? What do i have to install so that my video card identify Open CL library?

[micheus]

Micheus: i'm using 1.4.1 release. Why dont i have an "Open CL proxy level" here, in preferences/misc tab? Was this implemented to 1.4.1?

Sorry, Fonte.
I'm always working with the last snapshot.

This resource was release on Dec 2011 - in this thread strangely named Wings Snapshots (from Dec 2012) (did you notice that 2012? I've just seen now )

What do i have to install so that my video card identify Open CL library?

Well, your video card should supports OpenCL and then it will be available. If it doesn't you may have an option - check this post in the old forum too.