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General Category => Community Help => Tutorials => Topic started by: Passerby on February 03, 2014, 03:22:49 pm

Title: Nvil Tutorial Links
Post by: Passerby on February 03, 2014, 03:22:49 pm
Here is a list of tutorials from around the forums. All credit for building the list goes to Mason, if anyone feels it;s missing something, or wants to add there own tutorial just reply to this thread, and i will add it to the main post.

UI

Library: How To (http://digitalfossils.com/nvil-forum/index.php/topic,1611.0.html)
Composite Tool to create holes through Mesh (http://digitalfossils.com/nvil-forum/index.php/topic,1834.0.html)
Yup/Zup workflow (http://digitalfossils.com/nvil-forum/index.php/topic,942.0.html)
Scale options explained (http://digitalfossils.com/nvil-forum/index.php/topic,1070.0.html)
Custom Tool Bar: How to (http://digitalfossils.com/nvil-forum/index.php/topic,1009.0.html)
Custom UI and Icons (http://digitalfossils.com/nvil-forum/index.php/topic,745.0.html)
Save Selections : Groups and Selection Sets (http://digitalfossils.com/nvil-forum/index.php/topic,1301.0.html)
Custom Manipulator (http://digitalfossils.com/nvil-forum/index.php/topic,1204.msg4444.html#msg4444)
Workplane Explained (http://digitalfossils.com/nvil-forum/index.php/topic,505.msg1831.html#msg1831)
Group Pivot (http://digitalfossils.com/nvil-forum/index.php/topic,300.0.html)
Material Editor (http://digitalfossils.com/nvil-forum/index.php/topic,300.msg1560.html#msg1560)

Modeling

Circulize: Model Holes into Curved Surface (http://digitalfossils.com/nvil-forum/index.php/topic,1342.0.html)
Align: Lay on (http://digitalfossils.com/nvil-forum/index.php/topic,1108.msg3700.html#msg3700)
Loop Cleanup Functions explained (http://digitalfossils.com/nvil-forum/index.php/topic,1170.0.html)
Instances and Radial Explained (http://digitalfossils.com/nvil-forum/index.php/topic,1068.0.html)
Instances: Create a Staircase (http://digitalfossils.com/nvil-forum/index.php/topic,1627.0.html)
Shell: How Normals effect Results (http://digitalfossils.com/nvil-forum/index.php/topic,2170.0.html)
Morph Targets (http://digitalfossils.com/nvil-forum/index.php/topic,1211.15.html)
Edge Chamfer : Equal Distance option (http://digitalfossils.com/nvil-forum/index.php/topic,2176.msg6797.html#msg6797)
UV Deform : Deform or Shrink Wrap using UVs (http://digitalfossils.com/nvil-forum/index.php/topic,1171.msg4233.html#msg4233)
Mirror (http://digitalfossils.com/nvil-forum/index.php/topic,300.0.html)
Model a Soccer Ball (http://digitalfossils.com/nvil-forum/index.php/topic,1038.msg3383.html#msg3383)
Model simple Box with Lid (http://digitalfossils.com/nvil-forum/index.php/topic,900.0.html)
Make Quads (http://digitalfossils.com/nvil-forum/index.php/topic,379.msg1424.html#msg1424)
Cap Hole (http://digitalfossils.com/nvil-forum/index.php/topic,372.msg1320.html#msg1320)

Splines

Slide to create Pipes (http://digitalfossils.com/nvil-forum/index.php/topic,1136.15.html)
Bend Deformer using Splines (http://digitalfossils.com/nvil-forum/index.php/topic,2146.0.html)
Splines: Surfaces and Deforming (http://digitalfossils.com/nvil-forum/index.php/topic,1613.0.html)
Align and Extrude along Spline (http://digitalfossils.com/nvil-forum/index.php/topic,1821.0.html)
Spline Modify : How To (http://digitalfossils.com/nvil-forum/index.php/topic,270.0.html)
Spline Modify : How to #2 (http://digitalfossils.com/nvil-forum/index.php/topic,1174.msg4292.html#msg4292)
Lathe Tool to create coiled Spline (http://digitalfossils.com/nvil-forum/index.php/topic,2174.0.html)

Youtube Videos


Intro, starts at 8:00 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_e_C26NYkY)
Change UI Colors (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tLDCQnNAn7A)
Setting up Custom Tool Pallettes (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WQUEw3qyeew)
Custom Make Hole Tool (copy settings from screenshot) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kzRgEllmVSM)
Tool Search and Hotkey setup (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=esT1nph28YY)
Smart Tips Pallette (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQk7VAqD2Tg)
Modeling Tutorial part 1 : in Russian (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9yonsnJZ-qg)
Modeling Tutorial part 2 : in Russian (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AgkNo0MDlXc)
Title: Re: Nvil Tutorial Links
Post by: Passerby on February 04, 2014, 09:37:36 pm
added them to the main post
Title: Re: Nvil Tutorial Links
Post by: Mason on February 05, 2014, 08:49:03 am
Custom Icons with Tool Panels,  this is an external but you dont have to scroll through forums like the previous link i provided.
http://www.reinerstilesets.de/anderes/2012-nvil-iconset/ (http://www.reinerstilesets.de/anderes/2012-nvil-iconset/)


Twist, Scale, Bend deformers
http://digitalfossils.com/nvil-forum/index.php/topic,2260.0.html

Creating Tank Treads
http://digitalfossils.com/nvil-forum/index.php/topic,2267.0.html

Just made new tutorial, using Bend in Nvil.
http://youtu.be/pwlGJwGobn8

Making holes in curved surfaces
http://youtu.be/HaUsOgyyfAI   

Advanced selection:
http://youtu.be/I_LTTm1rGwY
Title: Re: Nvil Tutorial Links
Post by: samardac on March 14, 2014, 06:22:25 pm
Just made new tutorial, using Bend in Nvil.
http://youtu.be/pwlGJwGobn8
Title: Re: Nvil Tutorial Links
Post by: Darcvizer on March 14, 2014, 11:08:32 pm
Tutorial- StreamLine. Russian.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4VapVL6S7us&feature=youtu.be
Title: Re: Nvil Tutorial Links
Post by: IStonia on March 15, 2014, 05:50:03 am
Many thanks guys!
Title: Re: Nvil Tutorial Links
Post by: samardac on March 16, 2014, 09:35:47 am
New tutorial - making holes in curved surfaces
http://youtu.be/HaUsOgyyfAI   

Passerby, add pleas these new tutorials to your list.
Title: Re: Nvil Tutorial Links
Post by: IStonia on March 17, 2014, 10:55:48 am
New tutorial - making holes in curved surfaces
http://youtu.be/HaUsOgyyfAI   

Passerby, add pleas these new tutorials to your list.

I watched the video and noticed that there is an orientation problem. I added the rotation function to Circularize tool. Hope it helps.
Title: Re: Nvil Tutorial Links
Post by: IStonia on March 17, 2014, 11:31:51 am
New tutorial - making holes in curved surfaces
http://youtu.be/HaUsOgyyfAI   

Passerby, add pleas these new tutorials to your list.

I watched the video and noticed that there is an orientation problem. I added the rotation function to Circularize tool. Hope it helps.

samardac, if you have downloaded the new version without seeing this post, please redownload it. Because I have just made a little change to improve the rotation result and have reuploaded the file.
Title: Re: Nvil Tutorial Links
Post by: polyxo on March 17, 2014, 12:11:01 pm
samardac, if you have downloaded the new version without seeing this post, please redownload it. Because I have just made a little change to improve the rotation result and have reuploaded the file.

Great change!
Title: Re: Nvil Tutorial Links
Post by: samardac on March 17, 2014, 04:50:39 pm
IStonia, I press space, but nothing happen. Spacing style or Rotation does not work. What it can be?
Title: Re: Nvil Tutorial Links
Post by: IStonia on March 17, 2014, 05:25:40 pm
While Spacing key is pressed, you need to drag the cursor to rotate. Or maybe you have changed the hotkey setting, Edit > Customize > Tools > Modeling Options > Streamline Tools Option Cycler. whose default hotkey is Space.
Title: Re: Nvil Tutorial Links
Post by: samardac on March 17, 2014, 07:05:45 pm
Thank you, yes I changed this shortcut.
Title: Re: Nvil Tutorial Links
Post by: samardac on March 17, 2014, 07:10:03 pm
IStonia,
Why After I press space, circcle become not perfect? I rotate this circle but it is not perfect already.
Title: Re: Nvil Tutorial Links
Post by: Mason on March 17, 2014, 07:50:15 pm
tapping space will change the style of the spacing.
Title: Re: Nvil Tutorial Links
Post by: samardac on March 18, 2014, 06:11:33 am
So, there us no way to raotate perfect circle?
Title: Re: Nvil Tutorial Links
Post by: IStonia on March 18, 2014, 06:28:39 am
Here is the release note of the last version
  * Rotation function is added to Circularize tool. Space-key + Mouse-drag to rotate. Since Space key has been used to toggle spacing style, you have to press Space key twice. When the spacing style is the one you want, keep pressing down Space key then drag to rotate.

So, if the spacing style is not the one you want, release Space key then press it down again to switch to the style you want as there is only two styles available. Now drag the cursor to rotate.
Title: Re: Nvil Tutorial Links
Post by: samardac on March 18, 2014, 07:05:52 am
IStonia, great thank you!
Title: Re: Nvil Tutorial Links
Post by: IStonia on March 18, 2014, 07:12:52 am
The "Streamline Tools Option Cycler" key(default: Space) is used extensively in a number of tools. So keep your eyes on the description of the streamline line tools when you use them the first time.
Title: Re: Nvil Tutorial Links
Post by: samardac on March 18, 2014, 07:18:41 am
Yes, I will check, I changed space key to Best Fit, that is why it did not work. I never know about this "Option Cycler" may be it will be better to include it in stream line to have one tool? And do not have it separetly in diffrent tools? Becouse some people like me never know about it and can change space key.
Title: Re: Nvil Tutorial Links
Post by: IStonia on March 18, 2014, 07:29:32 am
may be it will be better to include it in stream line to have one tool? And do not have it separetly in diffrent tools?

I don't know what it means. But "Streamline Tools Option Cycler" can only be activated while a streamline tool is activated. So 1. Do not include that key in a streamline tool's hotkey if that tool uses it. 2. You don't need to change the key, your Best Fit operation will still works as there is no conflict unless you want to perform Best Fit while a streamline tool has been activated.
Title: Re: Nvil Tutorial Links
Post by: samardac on March 18, 2014, 08:13:16 am
Good, thanx.
Title: Re: Nvil Tutorial Links
Post by: polyxo on March 18, 2014, 11:11:26 am
The "Streamline Tools Option Cycler" key(default: Space) is used extensively in a number of tools. So keep your eyes on the description of the streamline line tools when you use them the first time.

While I much like this access to sub-options without GUI I have to admit that I am often either confronted with malfunctions or not being sure what I'm actually doing. Pressing Space inmidst of a command here absolutely always conflicts with the default MaxView functionality. This is also the case for the Brush strength control in some commands, I regularly run into a series of undesired viewport manipulations when attempting to call options. Elegance may be the goal, but here the result looks like a bad hack, really. Maybe I'm doing something wrong but this whole mapping system (arround the spacebar), as I understand it cries for fine tuning and proper separation.

Secondly it often opaque to me what in-command modifier does what, is it now the spacebar I have to press or is it Caps Lock? I often end up frantically pressing keys instead of saving time. The Instant help Item often can't answer my question – it often doesn't display all the contained text, the window itself seems not to resize and I can't figure a way to scoll down the text field. Also that Help text is static, it does not give indication whether the currently desired action actually registered or failed. I btw. found better if the Status bar (the classic place for instant help) gave the user feedback – just on the presently chosen mode – while cyling through options instead of showing yet another popup window.
Title: Re: Nvil Tutorial Links
Post by: samardac on March 19, 2014, 08:36:21 am
New tutorial, Advanced selection:
http://youtu.be/I_LTTm1rGwY
Title: Re: Nvil Tutorial Links
Post by: Darcvizer on April 18, 2014, 02:39:34 pm
Hi two tutorials Russian
1- global setings
2- nvil for xsi user
Пара тотуров
1- кратко о настройках
2- некоторые фишки для пользователей xsi

1           https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZ_y7J88p0c
2           https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRRQMbec2MM&feature=youtu.be
Title: Re: Nvil Tutorial Links
Post by: samardac on October 21, 2014, 09:29:01 am
Tourn Quad Flow in Nvil.
I spend a lot of time but found way how to make it.

(http://s26.postimg.org/msaxpbnqh/QUAD.png)

Tutor:
http://youtu.be/683Gv9QZ7tk
Title: Re: Nvil Tutorial Links
Post by: IStonia on October 27, 2014, 09:14:26 am
You missed this tool
Polygon mode > Geometry > Poke.
Title: Re: Nvil Tutorial Links
Post by: samardac on October 27, 2014, 02:56:49 pm
Greate IStonia, thank you! Did not know about it :)
Is it possible to make tool that will automaticly do this kind of tourning quad flow?
Title: Re: Nvil Tutorial Links
Post by: steve on July 30, 2017, 02:27:42 pm
Are any of the links (in the first post) ever going to be fixed so they point to the new/correct locations??
(the links became broken when forum moved, which is now quite a while ago)
Title: Re: Nvil Tutorial Links
Post by: IStonia on August 01, 2017, 10:20:11 am
The links are fixed.