8th February 2003 17:21 UTC
AVS Knowledge
What do you use to base your technical presets on?
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anubis2003
8th February 2003 17:21 UTC
AVS Knowledge
What do you use to base your technical presets on?
Nic01
8th February 2003 18:07 UTC
I base it on what I want to make, and the knowledge comes from experience, others, or one of those visits to mathworld.wolfram.com
anubis2003
8th February 2003 18:25 UTC
Yes mathworld is a great site. Book-wise I have bought Andre LaMothe's Tricks of the Windows Game Programming Gurus. This has a lot of interesting algorithms and physics stuff. Has anyone bought Eric Lengyel's Mathematics for 3D Game Programming & Computer Graphics? I think I might get it. It looks like it has a lot of useful stuff.
nixa
8th February 2003 18:44 UTC
I had to select all the answers becouse they are all true :)
I agree mathworld is great...would be even better if it had all of the books free to view online :P
anubis2003
8th February 2003 19:12 UTC
Internet is great since it is free, but the best stuff is normally in books because the professionals would rather make more money than less.
Phaze1987
8th February 2003 20:51 UTC
Hello.
I usually depend on the stuff i learn at school and what i can find in the math books i have...Internet is a great source of information but a real person will always make you understand better then a book or html file.
anubis2003
8th February 2003 21:02 UTC
Yes, but finding a real person to help you isn't that easy. I should have put that as an option. Oh well.
Phaze1987
8th February 2003 21:20 UTC
I was talking about my math tutor or my math teacher lol.ANother good option for the poll could be "winamp avs forum"...I learned alot in a short period of time thanks to you guys !
anubis2003
8th February 2003 21:21 UTC
That's under internet. But some people could get something from someone besides a teacher. I know some friends who have helped me out a little, for example.
mikm
9th February 2003 03:21 UTC
you forgot my method: bang the keyboard until it looks pretty
EnDurA
9th February 2003 06:25 UTC
u also could of included rip off from friends AVS, ur new avatar looks cool anubis
Tuggummi
10th February 2003 06:05 UTC
/me Jukka!
/me hit keyboard with fist!
/me throw mouse around!
/me do this until pretty preset come!
Tonic
10th February 2003 08:12 UTC
/me like tug did this until pretty preset come!
/me just remembered some math tricks from scool and university
Magic.X
10th February 2003 10:11 UTC
0 I start AVS and create some Render Objects
1 I add some relieable DM's from some of my recent Presets
2 I duplicate them sveral times and change each of them a bit
3 Now the Preset looks cool but is awesome slow
4 I kill half of the DM's
5 Now the Preset runs quite fast but looks like shit
6 Frustrated, i close AVS and think about buying a new Processor
7 10 Minutes later i start from 0 again
Thats what Preset creating usually looks like...
blazer1504
10th February 2003 12:23 UTC
Tuggummi's 'method' is very efficient & I use to do that too. Once in awhile I bang my screen to make that method even more efficient, it really helps (you should try it) :D
Jaak
10th February 2003 14:31 UTC
Hmmm... Nice methods (I i thought that how the hell can U all make so neat crap)...
Ok, mine is here: If I didnt knew anything about AVS then I slept in my classes, NOW is sleep AND think how to make some nice presets in my classes. Then I come home and realize that all i thought up was crap and I start using Tugs method...
dirkdeftly
10th February 2003 16:30 UTC
y'know as much as i hate tonic, and as irritating magic.x was (to me, at least) at times when he was here...i must ask, where've you two been?
Jaak
10th February 2003 18:25 UTC
It seems to me that you, Atero, arn't very tolerant guy...
anubis2003
11th February 2003 01:45 UTC
Where'd you get that idea?:p JK Atero. Well, kinda.:p
Zevensoft
11th February 2003 05:12 UTC
I think the whole animated logo thing had something to do with atero's disposition.
Jaak
11th February 2003 14:14 UTC
Pst! He can here us...
Guys! RUN! His coming........
dirkdeftly
11th February 2003 19:43 UTC
Zeven: The über-popularity for crap presets is what bothers me :hang:
Zevensoft
11th February 2003 21:57 UTC
Hey just like rap/hip-hop music! :P
mikm
11th February 2003 23:19 UTC
Tuggummi's 'method' is very efficient & I use to do that too. Once in awhile I bang my screen to make that method even more efficient, it really helps (you should try it)I thought that was MY idea- if you read through the posts, I said "bang the keyboard until it looks pretty" a couple days before Tuggummi made his post
Tuggummi
12th February 2003 07:44 UTC
Bleh Bleh...
Michael, yeah, what ever... just to let you know i have used your idea for the past 3 years, do i have to pay you copyright royalties? :p
oh, almost forgot, the more advanced method i use is the POTASWH method (Put One There And See What Happens)
piR
12th February 2003 14:28 UTC
If you can read french, you can have a look there :
http://perso.club-internet.fr/pcharpen
You'll find some presets and a little tutorial ...
fsk
12th February 2003 14:50 UTC
I learned most of it from you gys. Then I rememberd I learned all that in high school:D. Seriously, I even forgot that I heard about polar coordinates before.
mikm
13th February 2003 01:46 UTC
I'm not mad at you Tug, just mad that somebody else completley ignored the fact that I also posted that first.
jheriko
20th February 2003 00:10 UTC
I got my technical know how from myself mostly... i.e. i figured it out myself. This may seem a bit weird, but for example, when I first started to play around with qbasic I accidentally discovered polar co-ordinates, it just made sense to me that x=sin(r),y=cos(r) would define a circle, I was then taught of their existence at school about 4 years later. The only thing from AVS that I didn't really figure out myself was the 3D projection+rotation which I first found on a qbasic website several years ago. The other big help has always been the help files, the only programming/techincal book I have ever read is 'OpenGL Game Programming', I learned basic and c from help files and asm from the intel technical manual which can be downloaded from the intel website.
When making a technical preset I usually sit down with a piece of paper for a while, figure out how it will all work, then code it up.
Clinical
20th February 2003 00:16 UTC
Well, since none of my presets could be considered "technical" (I attempted a few of those but they failed horribly... sigh), I generally just throw random crap together and tweak it until it looks good. I do use some of my limited math knowledge too... really, I do... :confused:
Montana
20th February 2003 10:56 UTC
i learned my math from school. all the math i use (in avs) is simple.
dirkdeftly
22nd February 2003 05:34 UTC
It wouldn't be a coincidence that POTASWH has "POT" right in the name, would it? :p
Raz
22nd February 2003 06:07 UTC
maths textbooks, internet sites, old threads. Anything helpful in any way.
Tuggummi
24th February 2003 08:39 UTC
It wouldn't be a coincidence that POTASWH has "POT" right in the name, would it?No... i don't smoke pot :igor:
EnDurA
24th February 2003 10:27 UTC
.I guess i when i tried to find a name for my method i was looking for a similiar shortname than WYSIWYG X2Tug doesn't smoke pot, he is just as incoherent as the rest of us.
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