Hi,

There's a new set of video tutorials on the way.
The first set are already up on the Learning/Tutorial page.
Two videos showing how to setup a simple dynamic avalanche.

Coolio. Just a heads up the publish date for the avalanche tute is Aug 8/2008…

Cheers,

J.C.

Thanks!
This one looks cold.

This is awesome! Thanks!

I wish the download didn't take so long, though. Oh well. No worries.

Can't wait to start making more video tutorials once Houdini is available on the Mac, as there are more screen recording apps for less money than on either Windows or Linux.

I do all my work on Ubuntu linux using gtk-RecordMyDesktop. $0, can't beat the price.

Wow! I hadn't found one that worked, and I just realized that you're used it in the tutorials. I thought it was done under Windows with Camtasia. That's great to know.

Yes, RecordMyDesktop works just like Camtasia. Doing the screen capture then the encoding as a separate pass.
The “limitation” of Record… is that it records to .ogm format. Which is a good format, but not widely enough distributed. So, I convert to .avi format.
I use AlltoAvi for that, a really great command line tool.

Keith at Sesi converts to .mov files for the website.

Well I am glad Mr. P.Robbins finally did some constructive work. His intervention in the Hypnotoad thread wasn't a success. Guess a thank you for this new tutorial is in place.

edit:OMG, an avalanche….now i can previsualize the damage i'll do when i go snowboarding!!! Cool.

:evil:

Pagefan
Well I am glad Mr. P.Robbins finally did some constructive work(…)

Destructive rather…

One of the reasons people are generally very civil on these forums is that people want to get paid to do what they love. As a Houdini user, many of the people you might work with (or their friends) are here. That includes many of the people who make the hiring decisions for companies that use Houdini. There are only a finite number of places in the world where you can work in this industry. You can seriously smoke years of career development or permanently remove great opportunities for the rest of your life with a few poorly chosen words. It's good to think about that. Express it in terms of a large amount of whatever currency is of most value to you. From that point it's hard to come up with intelligent reasons to justify pouring pollution into the pond - when so many stand by watching. You get what you give.

tstex
One of the reasons people are generally very civil on these forums is that people want to get paid to do what they love. As a Houdini user, many of the people you might work with (or their friends) are here. That includes many of the people who make the hiring decisions for companies that use Houdini. There are only a finite number of places in the world where you can work in this industry. You can seriously smoke years of career development or permanently remove great opportunities for the rest of your life with a few poorly chosen words. It's good to think about that. Express it in terms of a large amount of whatever currency is of most value to you. From that point it's hard to come up with intelligent reasons to justify pouring pollution into the pond - when so many stand by watching. You get what you give.

I'm not really sure if I understand what you're talking about… The message is clear I think, but are you referring this to my joke about destructiveness of avalanches? :shock: If so, sorry but this is misunderstanding. I just found it funny to call avalanche's tutorial constructive… maybe because I live in mountains Is it clear now?

Cheers!
Simon.

I wasn't responding to your post Symek. You're good.

After reading Pagefan's post, I went to what he was referring to in the Houdini on Mac thread. There was a discussion there about civility on the forums. I was tying that back into this thread.

Peter has done a lot of great work teaching and creating education material for Houdini. People need to be more careful.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collegiality [en.wikipedia.org]

If your under Windows the Windows Media Encoder does a good job with screen capture and is free.