Writers' Guild Forums - for URU Agebuilders using the Open-Source Plasma plug-in

• "The Magician"s Most Excellent video tutorials: http://stefan.lohner-net.de/uru/modding/tutorials/
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• After following The Magician's tutorial for installing the Plasma plug-in, the Writers' Guild's Max / Plasma Setup chart may help you visualize and understand Plasma's data associations (details in post below)
  Something broke in how the overlay feature in this page worked! So...read it if you like, but the diagrammatical aspect is borked!
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• Andy Legate's extensive and very readable collection of tutorials on many aspects of 3DStudioMax and the Plasma tools:
  http://wiki.openuru.org/index.php?title=..._Tutorials
  
  Andy has also posted several video tutorials on how to set up certain logic event sequences in Max/Plasma:
  (note: may be helpful to select "full screen" and "720P-HD" options in YouTube!)
  
  Animation Events 
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tifio1vOm...ure=relmfu
  
  Triggering Animations using Region Sensors
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6TOLvpj5...ure=relmfu
  
  More on using Region Sensors with Kickable Objects:
  1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Ma2mpOZs...ature=plcp
  2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Q9M-B7dE...ature=plcp
  
  And a standard Max tutorial showing how modeling with Booleans can be helpful in URU:
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B1an0rENu70&list=UUlGVsu0I0mRhRV0yUB54Btg&index=59&feature=plcp
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• Dustin also wrote some tutorials that help fill a few holes, and are worth viewing (and reviewing):
  3dsmax/Getting Started
  3dsmax/Dustin's Quick Tutorial
  3dsmax/Dustin's 3dsmax Cookbook
  

IndyURU is gradually developing some excellent pages of step-by-step advice for both agebuilders and shard owners.

Keep an eye on their newest additions at IndyURU.net !!!

We hope to collaborate and coordinate our efforts in creating and collecting resources for Max agebuilders!

There has been significant progress made at IndyURU.net on
The Plasma Plugins Components page.

The page lists all of the Components in the Plasma Plugin Component Manager with a link to the documentation for each item. It can help you find specific info in the doc very quickly. It may also be of some value in identifying what aspects of the Plasma Plugins documentation may be lean, incomplete, or non-existant.

You can find it in the Developers and Age Creators Book
under 'Modding Ages Chapter Two'
How to use the CWE "Plasma Plugins" with Autodesk 3ds Max

(11-08-2012, 04:53 PM)Emor Dni Lap Wrote: [ -> ][*]Dustin also wrote some tutorials that help fill a few holes, and are worth viewing (and reviewing):
http://dusty.homeunix.net/wiki/3dsmax/Getting_Started
http://dusty.homeunix.net/wiki/3dsmax/Du...k_Tutorial
http://dusty.homeunix.net/wiki/3dsmax/Du...x_Cookbook

His website address changed all Dustin's old links are dead the tutorials above can be found here

http://myst.dustbird.net/wiki/Creating_Ages

Updated the links in the OP.

Thanks Karkadann...there are probably quite a few more outdated links around here that I also need to fix...