Attached Link: nodes tutorial!

i have the nodes half of the tutorial done.  check it out.

unfortunately its a pdf, i dont know how well it works.  sorry

http://www.sharebigfile.com/file/77756/nodetut2-pdf.html

uploaded it to a host just in case

page 2 makes acrobat reader crash...?

Edit:  seems to work ok outside of the browser in acrobat pro

yah, i realized that, i think that might be a problem with how i uploaded it

Oops, crosspost!  I have it working outside the browser (version from your site)

Thanks so much for writing this, btw!

looking at the pdf, i realize that the jpeg quality needs to be enhanced, and probably i need to turn off "optimize for web" in the pdf compression settings to get page 2 to work

ok, just figured out how to get it a reasonable size while preserving all the quality.  i will upload this to my website.

i just downloaded your tut -- looks good, but I haven't read it yet.  Also, thanx for the uv tut -- this is all stuff that I loose track of while lost in model making.  What happens is I make a model, it looks like crap partly because I've not taken the time to learn lighting, etc.

when started blender, i happened to be interested in stuff like caustics and realism, so for the first couple months, thats all i concentrated on, and i had virtualy no modeling experience.  i had all that information on how to make these cool materials, but nothing to put them on.  i guess it realy doesnt matter where you start, its allways going to take a while before you learn both parts. 

I'm most certainly going to read this when I finish my Avitar. Want to keep it fresh. ^_^
Thanks by the way for the messages. They've helpedd out a LOT!

Great tut so far, I've been playing with the material nodes on and off for a little while, I can't wait to see the SSS part :)

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