The new Landscape Tutorial proves that faultless tutes are possible. Please, Please, Please---a good tute on the tree creator for which we can also say a loud thankyou!

Well, thats is not so easy. The treegenerator is much more complex. To get your hand on it, you have to understand it, and that is really an intellectual challenge. The functions are fully discribed in the standard handbook but they depend on each other. A statement like: Take this slider and you will get this result, is nearlly impossible. This means not, that it is at all impossible, but it would be a much larger and not so easy tutorial. Johannes

I know! What worries me is the type of intellect that does understand it [!!!} may not speak an earthly language--but I live in hope.

And when the tree tutorial comes to pass, let's have a tute on 'formulas', which nobody seems to understand, much less have any use for. [tho' I did, in fact, use the pumpkin shape that came with Carrara.]

Judging from their manual, I don't think anyone at Eovia understands formulas, but it looks good in the ads.

Well, formula shaders are very useful when you want to do stripes for paint jobs or similar in cars and such ;)

I used to have a site dedicated to formulas. I'll post up the info if I can find it. The formulas are easy to do if you understand math and then understand carrara's version of math. Brian

I've worked on and off on a tree tutorial. The hard part is that everything is interrelated so discovering/explaining the concepts of the advanced settings (without really understanding the nuts-&-bolts under the hood) means you are sort of like a shamen trying to discover/explain a carborator.... Anyway, someone mentioned the term "L-system" which I assume the plant modeller is based on, and after googling half a dozen college papers I didn't feel any more knowledgable.... Still working on it tho. It's much easier to do a tutorial for a specific tree, than a tutorial on "advanced tree concepts and controls".

Keep on trying for us all please! It helps to know that I'me not the only goose on this one. Like you I feel that it is potentially first class but needs a descriptive analysis of how it works and interrelates--without constant crashes!!!!. The Cajomi Landscape Tute this week is of the right type of descriptive standard.