What Tutorials would help you to learn hexagon better? - Page 2 - Polyloop

laughingnome · 2nd January 2008, 11:41

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Also how to get better control over the tools in general. For example when using the sweep tool any slight movement of my mouse gets me some hideous shape that ends up covering my whole workspace LOL. I have to slowly inch my way back to some normalcy.

ill quickly answer this , your model is too Small, scale it up and zoom out a little before extrusions or sweeps.

stu

dlk30341 · 2nd January 2008, 15:10

Thanks Stu

JohnnyRoy · 2nd January 2008, 15:24

Just another example. I just tried to view another silent video and the instructor was using keyboard shortcuts!!! So the mouse is not moving and things are happening on the screen and you have NO IDEA what is going on. A totally useless tutorial since all we can see is "magic" happening but we don't know how to reproduce it.

If you are going to make a silent video it is mandatory that you NOT use any keyboard shortcuts or if you do you must go back and annotate the video with text to explain, "Press Ctrl+T" etc. Otherwise please restrict your silent videos to mouse moves only so we can see what is going on. It's a good idea to also move slower than normal since you aren't talking, people need to really see the menu options you are choosing. I had to stop the video and playback one frame at a time to see which menu item was being selected.

Like I said, video with audio solves all these problems. I can't wait to see some because I have been unable to complete any of the silent video tutorials on this site.

~jr

ButterflyFish · 8th January 2008, 22:38

Ok, I mostly followed that. Except I kind of got distracted listening to your voice.

laughingnome · 11th January 2008, 00:02

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Originally Posted by JohnnyRoy

Just another example. I just tried to view another silent video and the instructor was using keyboard shortcuts!!! So the mouse is not moving and things are happening on the screen and you have NO IDEA what is going on. A totally useless tutorial since all we can see is "magic" happening but we don't know how to reproduce it.

If you are going to make a silent video it is mandatory that you NOT use any keyboard shortcuts or if you do you must go back and annotate the video with text to explain, "Press Ctrl+T" etc. Otherwise please restrict your silent videos to mouse moves only so we can see what is going on. It's a good idea to also move slower than normal since you aren't talking, people need to really see the menu options you are choosing. I had to stop the video and playback one frame at a time to see which menu item was being selected.

Like I said, video with audio solves all these problems. I can't wait to see some because I have been unable to complete any of the silent video tutorials on this site.

~jr

a compromise would be a PDF file with embedded video explaining the why and how and showing workflow in video format i think.
open to ideas here

stu

mayito7777 · 11th January 2008, 15:23

PDF file sounds good.

Tez · 11th January 2008, 17:43

Hey guys, good to see more posts. I havent forgot this thread. Im building my website at the moment and should be getting some streamed video tutorials on there soon.

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2nd January 2008, 15:10	#22 (permalink)
dlk30341 Cube Join Date: Aug 2005 Posts: 73 My Photos: (0)	Thanks Stu

2nd January 2008, 15:24	#23 (permalink)
JohnnyRoy Vertex Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: New York Posts: 7 My Photos: (0)	Just another example. I just tried to view another silent video and the instructor was using keyboard shortcuts!!! So the mouse is not moving and things are happening on the screen and you have NO IDEA what is going on. A totally useless tutorial since all we can see is "magic" happening but we don't know how to reproduce it. If you are going to make a silent video it is mandatory that you NOT use any keyboard shortcuts or if you do you must go back and annotate the video with text to explain, "Press Ctrl+T" etc. Otherwise please restrict your silent videos to mouse moves only so we can see what is going on. It's a good idea to also move slower than normal since you aren't talking, people need to really see the menu options you are choosing. I had to stop the video and playback one frame at a time to see which menu item was being selected. Like I said, video with audio solves all these problems. I can't wait to see some because I have been unable to complete any of the silent video tutorials on this site. ~jr

8th January 2008, 22:38	#24 (permalink)
ButterflyFish Vertex Join Date: Jan 2006 Posts: 2 My Photos: (0)	Ok, I mostly followed that. Except I kind of got distracted listening to your voice.

11th January 2008, 17:43	#27 (permalink)
Tez Spline Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Uk Posts: 55 My Photos: (32) Images: 22	Hey guys, good to see more posts. I havent forgot this thread. Im building my website at the moment and should be getting some streamed video tutorials on there soon.