Well, I figured I can't just leave us Maya people in the dark while 3DS users get all the goodies. Here's my attempt at making some training vids!
This 1st series will deal with how to rig, weight, and export a character with animations into Ogre. I've made it general enough that it works as a Maya training vid more than anything. If you don't know how to rig characters, I'll show you.
They are encoded with XVid. I'm hosting them on my site ATM, but with 15GB monthly bandwidth, I'll probably have to move them to BitTorrent. Links will update if they need to be.
Awesome dude! Moving to bittorrent is a good idea!
I didnt watched the videos, but i will for sure when i get home, will post my thoughts. I love VTM's! They are the best way to learn stuff... audio and video... a dream.
I checked them both out and I have to say good work.
One minor note that sort of bugged me is when you mirrored over the skeleton in the first video. You mention that it "unfortunately" reverses the joint orientations on the model's right side as if it were something to be corrected. This actually simplifies a lot of animation tasks down the line, so it's a good idea to leave them reversed. Other than that small annoyance, we were very pleased and I think novices could gain a lot from them so far.
Should've put in a disclaimer like "these techniques work for me, but there are tons of ways to do this stuff". I've never found a use for the mirrored rotations, in fact I find em to be nothing but a pain when I start adding orient constraints.
Hey Dr, that'd be sweet if you want to mirror these things. Ive got 15G/month on my webhost account, but I have to basically cut these files at ~14.5 so my email/website still works for the rest of the month.
That may be what vinhk was talking about, but the lesson two is also scrapped. I get a CRC error when I attempt to unpack it...so only video 1 is accessable ATM.
Sorry everyone. I don't know what happened to those files.
My ISP recently moved my domain to a different server, so perhaps
they got hosed in the move. I've submitted a support ticket to see
if they have a backup they can restore.
I don't have those files locally anymore. Does anyone else have them available?
Hey everyone! Sorry about all this, I've been taking a long break from anything PCs and Animation so I didn't catch this earlier. I'm re-upping all 4 video .RARs right now (to the original links) so they should be available soon.
Hope they're still of use to everyone, I'm planning on getting back into the 3D scene again soon -- so maybe more videos will appear.
Seeya all
*Edit* Feel free to BitTorrent/mirror them also. My limit is still 15Gigs, and when it gets close to 14.8 I shut it down so my Emails etc still work for the rest of the month. *
Mirrored, I allocated 500 GB of bandwidth for it. It is with some other stuff but that only takes about 20GB a month of bandwidth so that leaves 480 for this
Here's my attempt at making some training vids! 
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