In a couple weeks Amazon will have Richard Schrand's new book available.  It will cover 7 and 7.5.  His Vue 6 book was great.  I'm hoping it has a chapter on planet building.  I'll probably have 7.5 by then too. 

I also ordered the Ami Chopines book From The Ground Up. We can compare the books when release.

Mazak

I hope Richard's book is in colour as black and white really was it's only down point and an annoying one at that, alas.

Attached Link: Beyond The Basics dot Net

Silverblade: To answer your question, the book will be in color this time. I just got my pre-release copy and it looks very nice. The book began shipping yesterday, so it should be available on various sites in the next few days.

Shawn: Some of the new features in 7.5 were not fully working at the time I wrote the book. I do have some information on world building, but.......I will have more on a site I'm working on right now that is beind created in conjunction with the book: beyondbasics.net. I have a pre-site up where people can let me know what tutorials they would like to see and if they want them in PDF or video formats.

btw: I just noticed there is a preview chapter (the ol' "Look Inside") feature for the book, so you can see a portion of the first chapter on amazon.com. Go to the beyondbasics.net site and then click the link at the bottom of the page. That will take you to the book's page.

Thanks for the interest, everyone.

Best-

-Richard-

Thank you Richard for this information :) I ordered via Amazon.de and the Look Inside feature isn't available on that site.

Mazak

By the way: We just began Tweeting on Twitter. You can sign up at www.twitter.com/byndbasics. And, you can tell us what type of tutorials you would like to see and in what format you would like them delivered via a form on the beyondbasics.net website. You can also apply to become one of our Gurus and provide training content of your own.

Looking forward to hearing from all of you.

-Richard-