Another half-arsed product from Ben: Tutorials.

Post by **benryves** » Mon 08 Aug, 2005 1:04 pm

Nothing great, nothing exciting, but something that maybe someone will find useful:
http://benryves.com/tutorials/
Maybe these effects/techniques are a few years, ahem, decades out of date... but hey. I tried to present them in a simple way.

Any feedback is, as ever, appreciated.

CoBB · Post by **CoBB** » Mon 08 Aug, 2005 1:57 pm

Is the audio version coming too?

coelurus · Post by **coelurus** » Mon 08 Aug, 2005 3:04 pm

Good.

So when will the 3d-tuts come?

Old-school raytracing is a topic you should try to cover (diffuse + specular spheres, planes and simple stuff like that), nowadays they're pretty overwhelming (Monte-Carlo raytracing with photon mapping and who knows what).

Post by **DarkAuron** » Mon 08 Aug, 2005 4:39 pm

First time I've *ever* seen tuts on this stuff, and I've looked. Might try them sometime, I skimmed through them a bit. Good stuff, and thanks for the work ben. Write more tuts!!

necro · Post by **necro** » Mon 08 Aug, 2005 7:59 pm

those were way over my head...I guess I am an idiot...but, well, at least I can sprite well

CoBB · Post by **CoBB** » Mon 08 Aug, 2005 8:07 pm

Really? Ben's style seems to work better for me than most others out there. Of course it's hard to tell, since I already know a bit about the things he wrote about.

coelurus · Post by **coelurus** » Mon 08 Aug, 2005 9:20 pm

I'd say I would've loved to have those tuts handy a few yrs back so you guys learning things from those tuts should be overjoyed

They're pretty fun to read unlike the old half-done docs in old SWAG...

Post by **DarkAuron** » Mon 08 Aug, 2005 9:29 pm

necro wrote:those were way over my head...I guess I am an idiot...but, well, at least I can sprite well

Well at a first look it's a bit overwhelming. I did understand the tunnel one a bit.. then again it took me awhile to understand fractals until the concept finally smashed me in the head, then I made a fractal program in ti-basic

Kerey · Post by **Kerey** » Tue 09 Aug, 2005 1:02 am

CoBB wrote:Is the audio version coming too?

Yes, I need a book on tape to listen to on the way to work. I should ask for a car that runs properly while we're at it. (of course it starts having problems a week before I have to drive 700 miles to my school apartment then back home)

Nice job on the tutorials Ben. They are very readable, although I am always distracted by the British spelling "maths" for some reason. It's really the only word that does that for me too. Maybe I'm just weird.

GuillaumeH · Post by **GuillaumeH** » Tue 09 Aug, 2005 11:56 am

Nice tutorials ! (except the windows console one that i don't care about)
I found them well presented, though i haven't read them in detail.

Calv!n.n0.1 · Post by **Calv!n.n0.1** » Tue 16 Aug, 2005 3:50 am

Nice tutorials Ben!

I haven't had a chance to read them through, but I plan on doing so. Look like you have some neat info there!

I'd like to see a good tut on random flames/fire, and or something on raycasting/raytracing (like coelurus mentioned). You had some really neat pixel demos a while back that you put together on the TI. Maybe tuts on some of those would be interesting. Good job as always d00d!

They were presented well!