Thank you ! :)

definitely a part 3 , with more advanced stuff :D

how exactly the alpha render works?
i watched your tutorials and
i tried to render the default cube and select Render Menu- shadows- Alpha from Sky to Premultiplied and the render still shows the default cube the black background.

how can be done ?

i realised that i had to enable RGBA in the output for my png file :D

i finished watching the tutorial.
even though i've seen tons of tutorials i still learnt a couple of things.
so thank you very much and keep up the good work ;)
cheers!

by the way, do you know how to use the GIMBAL transform orientation?

not local , not normal, not view, not global
just GIMBAL :|

Thanks for your comments, Alex :)

About the Gimbal orientation... I don't know much about it, never used it (yet)... :(

it would be nice to see a tutorial about lens flare

Hi, thanx for all your tutorials! - they are amazing. I am just wandering: how did you exactly set the camera view (I mean the turning on the black view-finder.

Great work, thanks for that.

and what is the shortcut of render ? and changing the postion of your camera ?

Hi,
I have watched all of your tutorials and learned a TON! ;) I only got Blender three days ago and without these tutorials, I would have absolutly no clue how to do anything useful. Thanks a ton. Also, how do you pan the camera with the veiwfinder?

Thanks everyone for your comments, and sorry for being so late! :) That shorcut is so normal to me (I use it a lot in a daily basis xD) that I forgot to say how it was done!

For moving the camera from the viewpoint, there is a "feature" wich is called Fly Mode. The shortcut is Shift+F and from that, with the mouse wheel you can scroll to go forward or backward, and moving the mouse for orientation. Also, with middle click and moving the mouse, you can pan the camera ;) Then: Click to accept the movement or right click/Scape for going out of the Fly Mode.

Hope it helps!! ;)

Hi,
Can you also tell me if there is a way to center the camera veiw on the selected object?
(Not the rendering camera, the 3D veiw cam.) ;)

Thanks for all your help.

You can center the camera on the selected object by pressing the dot button on the numeric pad ;)

How can I look your tutorials?

How come your objects look so smooth my monkey is all blocky?

Because they have an applied subsurf modifier and the surface is smoothed ;)

Oliver,

How do I set my GPU to render my images instead of my CPU ? I have a strong card and its like going to waste if I don do it. Especially with the ray-tracing stuff.

I think I found something. LuxRender is a program that works with Blender, using Blender to export the renders.

Oliver,

I got LuxRender Working, but I cannot get the GPU + CPU working together. I looked over the http://www.luxrender.net/ forums and I found that it isn't possible to render using that option yet. However the CPU render method worked.

Example:

http://i324.photobucket.com/albums/k332/Vyache/RedGlassMonkey.png

Here is another monkey, with 1:47 Hour of render...

http://i324.photobucket.com/albums/k332/Vyache/Monkey-default.png

Wow, you are going pretty advanced, VyacheKan!! Gpu rendering, is not possible for now with Blender (as far as I know). Anyway, you can do it with external renderers. Luxrender is only CPU for now, but SmallLux is the GPU part of it still in development, maybe you'd like to take a look at it ;)

If you don't mind paying for software, you have Octane Render, and Thea Render (there are more options, but this two supports Blender pretty well :)

Good luck!

Yea...

Actually, I was able to do renders with GPU, but the animation wouldn't last past the 7th iteration of frame render. Meaning, something was wrong with the engine of my gpu constantly being shut off and on.

However I got it to work well with the CPU. My GTX650 supports LuxRender with Path Mode. I have support for OpenCl as well.

Here is my Animation:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kq5Vpm5F2Lc

Enjoy...

Typo, GTX 465***

Here is another, but with small Lux

forgot the link... sorry
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q020yPr_h9Y

Woow, You rocks!!! very cool keep going!!!

Hi Oliver

The tutorials on the BlenderTuts site look great but I can’t seem to find the actual tutorials? By this I mean that I’m seeing the pages that describe the tutorials but from this point on there are no download links of any kind to take me to the actual tutorial. What am I doing wrong?

Many Thanks
Vincent

Hmmm... I don't know what's the problem... The tutorials are just embeded videos from vimeo, so they should work... if they don't, please, at the right side of this web, you have a link to the vimeo blendtuts album, maybe you can see the videos from there ;)

Hey, Oliver!
Thank you very, very much for your tutorials. Everything is absolutely transparent and easy to understand. And special thanks for the acceptible speed of you voice comments - it's very important for foreigners.

Thanks, Sasha :) Glad the tutorials help you ;)

Jeje, todo este tiempo y no sabía que Fly Mode sirve para colocar la cámara... :P

Gracias, un saludo.

Bueno, es una de sus posibles funciones :P