Author Topic: Nutcracker: tutorial thurs, aug 23 7pm mst (Denver time)  (Read 1249 times)

Offline smeighan

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With the many changes this week I think it would be useful to have another tutorial on Nutcracker.


It will be again on big blue button.
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In "Join A Meeting" select the "cracker" channel. Bobby set this up so i can give nutcracker tutorials.
Enter your name, no password needed.
I will open the conference on Thrusday Aug 23rd, 6:45pm (MST, Denver, Mountain Time).
Tutorial will start at 7pm MST.
We will be recording this so it can be played back if you cant make it.




Topics:
Pictures. How to use them, what are good pictures and bad for effects
Gifs:  what sort of animated gifs work, where to find them, what about gif transparency
Layers: how to select good pictures to layer on animations
Bug fixes: I will go through the changes made to nutcracker this last week, all ten of them
Projects: what is imminent (you may want to install nutcracker on your local drive)
Lsp,lor,vixen specific changes coming
Current list of open work.
A) horizon target model
B) single string effects for eaves, windows and arches
C) next release of projects


So 25.5 hours from now the conference will occur.


Thanks
Sean
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So 25.5 hours from now the conference will occur.

...and counting.  <pop..
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Will be there  <pop..

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Awesome!
I will be there...

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Reminder, Conference will open one hour from now....

6:45pm MST conf open,
7:00pm MST tutorial starts

thanks

PS: Aug 23rd is Chinese valentines day, kiss a loved one
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Sean, thanks one again for putting this conference together and continuing to evangelize this software.
I think you must have a boat load of karma sitting in your back yard!!
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Thanks Sean - that was great - learned a lot of new stuff tonight!
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Sean, thanks one again for putting this conference together and continuing to evangelize this software.
I think you must have a boat load of karma sitting in your back yard!!

thanks steve.

also thanks for entering bugs/enhancements into the nutcracker issue tracker (You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login)

*NOT*

just kidding, i forgot about editing the target generator so you can pick a different start pixel number,

now, i have no excuse for forgetting any of these enhancements

one issue, everything gets assigned to smeighan.

lol
Sean
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