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What do you use to base your technical presets on?

I base it on what I want to make, and the knowledge comes from experience, others, or one of those visits to mathworld.wolfram.com

Yes mathworld is a great site. Book-wise I have bought Andre LaMothe's Tricks of the Windows Game Programming Gurus. This has a lot of interesting algorithms and physics stuff. Has anyone bought Eric Lengyel's Mathematics for 3D Game Programming & Computer Graphics? I think I might get it. It looks like it has a lot of useful stuff.

I had to select all the answers becouse they are all true :)
I agree mathworld is great...would be even better if it had all of the books free to view online :P

Internet is great since it is free, but the best stuff is normally in books because the professionals would rather make more money than less.

Hello.
I usually depend on the stuff i learn at school and what i can find in the math books i have...Internet is a great source of information but a real person will always make you understand better then a book or html file.

Yes, but finding a real person to help you isn't that easy. I should have put that as an option. Oh well.

I was talking about my math tutor or my math teacher lol.ANother good option for the poll could be "winamp avs forum"...I learned alot in a short period of time thanks to you guys !

That's under internet. But some people could get something from someone besides a teacher. I know some friends who have helped me out a little, for example.

you forgot my method: bang the keyboard until it looks pretty

u also could of included rip off from friends AVS, ur new avatar looks cool anubis

/me Jukka!
/me hit keyboard with fist!
/me throw mouse around!
/me do this until pretty preset come!

/me like tug did this until pretty preset come!
/me just remembered some math tricks from scool and university

0 I start AVS and create some Render Objects
1 I add some relieable DM's from some of my recent Presets
2 I duplicate them sveral times and change each of them a bit
3 Now the Preset looks cool but is awesome slow
4 I kill half of the DM's
5 Now the Preset runs quite fast but looks like shit
6 Frustrated, i close AVS and think about buying a new Processor
7 10 Minutes later i start from 0 again

Thats what Preset creating usually looks like...

Tuggummi's 'method' is very efficient & I use to do that too. Once in awhile I bang my screen to make that method even more efficient, it really helps (you should try it) :D

Hmmm... Nice methods (I i thought that how the hell can U all make so neat crap)...
Ok, mine is here: If I didnt knew anything about AVS then I slept in my classes, NOW is sleep AND think how to make some nice presets in my classes. Then I come home and realize that all i thought up was crap and I start using Tugs method...

y'know as much as i hate tonic, and as irritating magic.x was (to me, at least) at times when he was here...i must ask, where've you two been?

It seems to me that you, Atero, arn't very tolerant guy...

Where'd you get that idea?:p JK Atero. Well, kinda.:p

I think the whole animated logo thing had something to do with atero's disposition.

Pst! He can here us...

Guys! RUN! His coming........

Zeven: The über-popularity for crap presets is what bothers me :hang:

Hey just like rap/hip-hop music! :P

I thought that was MY idea- if you read through the posts, I said "bang the keyboard until it looks pretty" a couple days before Tuggummi made his post

Bleh Bleh...
Michael, yeah, what ever... just to let you know i have used your idea for the past 3 years, do i have to pay you copyright royalties? :p

oh, almost forgot, the more advanced method i use is the POTASWH method (Put One There And See What Happens)

If you can read french, you can have a look there :

http://perso.club-internet.fr/pcharpen

You'll find some presets and a little tutorial ...

I learned most of it from you gys. Then I rememberd I learned all that in high school:D. Seriously, I even forgot that I heard about polar coordinates before.

I'm not mad at you Tug, just mad that somebody else completley ignored the fact that I also posted that first.

I got my technical know how from myself mostly... i.e. i figured it out myself. This may seem a bit weird, but for example, when I first started to play around with qbasic I accidentally discovered polar co-ordinates, it just made sense to me that x=sin(r),y=cos(r) would define a circle, I was then taught of their existence at school about 4 years later. The only thing from AVS that I didn't really figure out myself was the 3D projection+rotation which I first found on a qbasic website several years ago. The other big help has always been the help files, the only programming/techincal book I have ever read is 'OpenGL Game Programming', I learned basic and c from help files and asm from the intel technical manual which can be downloaded from the intel website.

When making a technical preset I usually sit down with a piece of paper for a while, figure out how it will all work, then code it up.

Well, since none of my presets could be considered "technical" (I attempted a few of those but they failed horribly... sigh), I generally just throw random crap together and tweak it until it looks good. I do use some of my limited math knowledge too... really, I do... :confused:

i learned my math from school. all the math i use (in avs) is simple.

It wouldn't be a coincidence that POTASWH has "POT" right in the name, would it? :p

maths textbooks, internet sites, old threads. Anything helpful in any way.

No... i don't smoke pot :igor:

I guess i when i tried to find a name for my method i was looking for a similiar shortname than WYSIWYG :igor:X2

Tug doesn't smoke pot, he is just as incoherent as the rest of us.
BTW tried to make avatar last nite, bloddy 50x50 pixels i could only get it down to 65² or so