Just some quick observations on the sample I watched: You may want to slow things down a little. You are very familar with the locations of items, so you tended to zip through them. I'm always bugged when I watch a tutorial and they move faster than I can follow. Especially when the method is new to me and I don't know…
I just got the dvd and finished seeing all the tutorials. Overall pretty nice indeed. If you have never used procedurals in Max it would help you get up to speed and not get discouraged with using them. Fat the pace wasn't too fast and they were easy to understand and listen to. All the tutorials are self contained so when…
Thanks for checking out the DVD, Alex. I'm glad you got some useful info out of it. And Mr. Chadwick has actually written a quick tutorial on how to loop procedurals: http://www.ericchadwick.com/examples/looping_a_procedural_texture.html
Yah, the 'fast' shortcut issue is quite prevalent in the Gnomon vids I have... even the beginner ones! They just whip right through them without explination. I paid $60+ bucks, I want to know! Anyway, great tutorial. Nice of you to show a demo.
Well I decided to buy it out of curiosity since I have a few bucks from christmas and it seems interesting and pleasant enough unlike other video tutorials I have had the displeasure of watching. I'll let you know what I think of it once I see the entire thing. I really didn't like how kurv studios dealt with the promotion…
About using shortcuts, I tried to do eveything with mouse clicks as much as possible, especially since I didn't use a headset so I had to keep my face in front of the microphone and not look down at the keyboard too much. And about moving too fast, that's a valid point. I do tend to rush through stuff even when I'm showing…