PFTools Box 2 tutorial poll.

#1

Oleg has asked me to produce a series of tutorials for Box 2. This is a great opportunity for me, but I want it to be a great opportunity for you guys as well. I know that there are not alot of people using Box 2 (or at least not boradcasting it) so this may not yield the results I hoped for, but I am hoping to gain some feedback into what you guys would like to know about Box 2.

I have been kind of aimlessly wandering around the plugin for awhile as I find time between projects, but I am wanting to actually sit down and develop this training. With some new hardware and software advancement on my end I am able to free up my main workstation from having to render. That means I will have much more time for projects like this.

Anyow, what would you guys like to see? What would you like to learn about Box 2?

NOTE: This is a poll about ONLY Particle Flow Tools Box 2, Box 3 comes later. So please dont request tutorials or concepts for tthe native PFlow system, Box 1 or 3 just yet. I will likely poll the community for those as well if the time comes.

These are the things that I am looking for from you guys to really make this training great:

1. Concepts: What practical projects would you like to see and learn how to use Box 2 within? ie. Collapsing buildings, swinging lamps, holes being blown in walls, etc. NOTE: These are not compositing and modelling tutorials except where necessary, so the focus is on the dynamics portion of the examples.

2. Theory: What specific operators or troubleshooting issues would you like to see demoed? ie. Basics of the particle skinner, the theory behind Box 2’s integration with the original operators, etc.

3. Troubleshooting: What are some common problems that you and many others have faced in working with Box 2 that you think are worthy of a training video to demostrate either work arounds or avoidances?

OKAY, that is all I can think of at the moment. This training is up to you guys, because I am an aspiring TD and consequently lack what most of you guys have in the realm of creativity. So give me your problems so I can solve them. :slight_smile:

PS: There is no release date set for the training, but once I get rolling those things will be more foreseeable.

#2

Are these for the community or are you going to be selling these?

#3

As far as I know they will be free. But that is ultimately up to Oleg. But I am sure that he had said they will be available for free from Orbaz.

#4

Cool,
I don’t have box #2 yet, but I’d like to see:

  1. Bolder rolling down hill, smashing stuff while collecting debris as well

  2. metal being pierced and torn (maybe a ship hull / car door )

  3. Break down of each operator like the Cg academy dvds

Hope that’s a start

#5

Thanks. These are great ideas, and all definitely possible with Box 2.

Keep them coming.

#6

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