Tutorials

• First Steps: An introductory tutorial
• Materials: How to change the visual appearance of your objects
  • Introduction
  • Assigning materials
  • The GLMaterial class
• Animation: Animating object attributes
  • Slots & Components
  • Connecting slots
  • Writing your own components
  • Using the STEP_FRAME event for animation
• Rendering a scene with a RenderMan compliant renderer
  • Preliminaries
  • Rendering an image
  • Materials vs Shaders
  • Using external RIB files
  • Rendering animations
• Custom attributes & primitive variables
  • Standard Python attributes
  • Custom slots
  • Primitive variables
• Baking texture maps
  • Requirements
  • Preparing the model
  • Baking the map
  • Using the baked map
  • Texture seams
  • Another example
• Using the grow utility
• ODEDynamics: Bouncing Sphere
  • First steps
  • Adding bounciness
  • Improving accuracy
  • Exercises
  • Next steps
• ODEDynamics: Newton Ball Experiment
  • Initializing
  • Exercises
  • Next steps
• ODEDynamics: Falling Boxes
  • Exercises
  • Next steps