How did you learn AVS?

Pixelcraft

7th July 2003 06:41 UTC

How did you learn AVS?
Just wondering....
Where did you guys learn such coding skills?

13373571

7th July 2003 06:58 UTC

coding skills?

The AVS programming language is very simple, if you could call it a language. You can probably learn that in less than an hour just by looking at the explanations contained in AVS. Do you mean where we learned the math?

dirkdeftly

7th July 2003 08:45 UTC

been here, done this

Nic01

7th July 2003 09:04 UTC

First "programming language" (NOT!) that I got to.
I learned it through a good amount of tinkering (past, future if 3.0 comes out), a little research on functions (juuust past, too lazy in present), and a looking at outside knowledge (past, present, future).

Still yet to seriously create something in AVS though (other than Beat Counter)...

WHCode RED

7th July 2003 19:02 UTC

Me? Learn AVS? Pah! I couldnt make a superscope from scratch! Well, maybe i could but it would be a line or dot or curved line or something... i mostly do remixes and try to understnad the code in other's scopes and dms

Pixelcraft

7th July 2003 19:44 UTC

Gee, thanks for your replies :rolleyes:

Nic01

7th July 2003 20:13 UTC

Note that purely learning AVS coding won't go terribly far - There's this thing called aesthetics you know.

anubis2003

8th July 2003 01:19 UTC

Math classes, physics classes, online research, book research, etc. Not to learn AVS, but to learn how to do different things(i.e. simulate collisions) and then I implement it in AVS.

Deamon

8th July 2003 10:22 UTC

Screwing around with the various renders and trans's to see what it does, then started typing nonsense code, which sometimes didn't even look that bad, then started picking other peoples presets apart. Now I'm trying things on my own, simple and a little harder coding. When I run into a problem I just ask here.

anubis2003

8th July 2003 15:06 UTC

One of my personal favorites had a movement that was basically random code(I started with something real, but then I just screwed around a lot). The chaotic flowers preset(available at http://anubis2003.deviantart.com) has a completely random movement.

IshanRocky

9th July 2003 16:47 UTC

I learnt through Atero's AVS primer,and some looking around.

Tuggummi

12th July 2003 14:44 UTC

Try avsing for 4 years... (been on the business since 1999 baby :p)

Phaze1987

12th July 2003 16:36 UTC

Tugg i will beat your 4 years! ;)
I learned how to use AVS by reading Atero`s primer,searching the forums for basic (and advanced sometimes) stuff and disecting other people`s code. Ishan stop posting with 2 different names! Its confusing.

jheriko

7th August 2003 21:00 UTC

The code is pretty basic... I programmed BASIC and C++ before I started on AVS so the expression help was all I needed... the rest is all 2D/3D(/nD if I wanted to) geometry, which is good for me since I'm doing a degree in maths. Most of my 'advanced' AVS knowledge comes from a combination of me working stuff out for myself mathematically or from UnConeD.

Most people that have trouble when they try to jump into coding AVS don't seem to have any idea of how programming works and so they just can't understand why things work how they do and why their code is pointless/redundant/broken.

HarsH

7th August 2003 21:48 UTC

what i'm amazed by though is how you can convert stuff you've seen in a forum thread into something compleately original (although most of the time...)

it baffles me to see that, even though i know the equations (just, and improving all the time), people like El-Vis and UnConeD are creating wonders of mathematics!

spyduck

5th September 2003 13:47 UTC

Originally posted by HarsH

it baffles me to see that, even though i know the equations (just, and improving all the time), people like El-Vis and UnConeD are creating wonders of mathematics!

Dont forget Jheriko and Tuggummi.

anubis2003

5th September 2003 15:09 UTC

1. Tuggummi isn't exactly the greatest mathemetician
2. Don't revive threads that are 1 month old - it's annoying.

Tuggummi

5th September 2003 18:37 UTC

1. Tuggummi isn't exactly the greatest mathemetician

True be that :)
(i wonder what exactly people see in my stuff then...)

+1 postcount :p

mikm

5th September 2003 21:30 UTC

Great asthetics.

anubis2003

5th September 2003 21:54 UTC

Tugg, you are, IMO, the greatest at aesthetics. You have an amazing sense of style <insert wrist flip>. This is why we wanted you to join in the AVS tourny.

[offtopic]You may not want to put that +1 postcount thing anymore. Will is resetting the postcount of anyone who puts "post_count++" in their posts. Wait, dammit:p ).

Zevensoft

6th September 2003 02:49 UTC

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Raz

6th September 2003 23:59 UTC

Tinkering. So much tinkering.

Tuggummi

8th September 2003 06:07 UTC

Anubis, yeah i know, it was just a joke that made fun out of my totally useless old-thread-revival post :blah:

shabaviz55

5th October 2003 10:14 UTC

I learned creat AVS from my gods: Tuggummi, UnConeD, ELVIS, Skupers, Yathosho...