Tutorials

for trueSpace

trueSpace 7.6 is now completely free- Download here
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3D Insect

tS4.x Dragonfly Tutorial

Alpha-mapping on planes explained!
Alpha-mapped planes
Color Temperature Chart
Color Temperature Chart

Making a 'Skydome'
Rope Making-NURBS and Sub-Div-Surf Methods
Using Loft as a Lathe for NURBS Curves
Using Loft for closed shapes
Rail and Loft- what's the difference?
Index of Refraction for various materials
How to apply a texture map
Print sizes and render resolutions
Using Wireframe and Layer colors in tS 6.6

Using Look At and Depth of Field Post Process

Video Tutorial: Using Motion Blur to achieve Depth of Field
By Justin 'Nowherebrain' Barrett- 13 MB rar file

Series of Video Tutorials on modeling a head.
By Justin 'Nowherebrain' Barrett- 1 free, the rest only $1 each!

Scripting an animation using a text file.
(tS7- PDF file) by 'Emma'

How many polygons are in my scene?

UV Cow UV Mapper Tutorial

tS6.6 UV Mapping Editor Tutorial
by Reiner "Tiles" Prokein

Handshaped 3D tree
by Reiner "Tiles" Prokein


More tutorials and objects at Tiles' site.



Dryad Tree Model Generator



Making plants in trueSpace
Video Tutorials by JamesMC

Using the UV Editor
Video Tutorial by "Graysho"
More UV Mapping helper programs:

Headus UV Layout - UV Mapping Tool

Ultimate Unwrap 3D- UV Mapping Tool

UV Mapper Pro- UV Mapping Tool

Standalone UV Mapping Editor
Now, back to more tutorials:



Using trueParticles to create grass
by Augusto "Prodigy" Michelis

Bones and Rigging-from sketch to model
by 3D Buzz

trueSpace<->Zbrush work flow
tS7 Displacement mapping & PSP
by Liger ZERO

Building a watch 
byAugusto "Prodigy" Michelis

freeCP- Suite of Coolpowers plugins for tS3 through tS6

Free LUUV Importer/Exporter for OBJ files and .MTL files


A LUUV Tutorial



Free Plugins page on the Caligari site

Caligari's Tutorial pages



Caligari Tutorium-tS 7 Tutorials

Animating an object's transparency
a minitut by Cap'n 3Dpdk

Building a light array

Building a texture using Dogwaffle

Using Deformation objects

Building a tire with treads using SDS

Build a coil around a torus with array tool

Fun with NURBS 101

PDF Tutorial about building a Multi-Layer Material

tS 7 Introductory Videos from Caligari



Tom Grimes' 'Bite Size' Mini-Video Tutorial Series

Download Shaderlab free


Ian Kirkley's site, download:
Shadermagic, free shaders and tutorials.


Free ShaderMagic Shaders from 'Herbie_West'

Rendering Overlay masks in Terragen for use in trueSpace



Exporting Terragen meshes and importing them into trueSpace.

Using planes for reference mapping.
Part 1 (948 k pdf) -- Part 2 (388k pdf)
Also- Link to thread here.

Another tut about setting up planes as reference maps in tS7
by Jack Edwards




Free 17 Video Course on Organic Modeling in tS7
by Jack Edwards

Steine's Helpful and Ongoing Links Page

Anthony Ware's mini-tut on using the Shell Tool & strutting.

Get (free!) PPFX Here; then check out the Ninjadodo Fire Tutorial

Jon Koehn's main site
-and his tutorials-:


Sunlight- Light library and COB files


Simulating fire in tS4.x


Creating ShaderLab Shaders Video Tutorials


Control Your Extrusions
(Flash tutorial on axis tools)
By Richard Kurbis
These are excellent!
tS 3.2 Video Tutorials
Worth a look no matter which version you use.

tS3.1 in 5 Minutes
Quick web rundown of all the 3.1 icons

Susan Lee's Tutorials

DeleDesigns Tutorial Page, including one on making screw threads
(on hiatus)
The Mother Of All tS Resource Sites!
Lunadude's Tutorial page

Main Lunadude Page
Learn how to get a head!
Oliver Rohe's Head modeling video.
Complete: (20 MB, DIVX)-Right click-'save as'
-or-
Part 1-- Part 2 -- Part 3 -- Part 4

Getting Started with Motion Studio
A comprehensive tutorial by
Frank Ladner

Getting Started with Skin Modifier
How bone deformation and facial animation
can be done on a single mesh
By Frank Ladner.

Converters, NURBS tools, and more.
It's a site to see!
http://www.stansight.com/tutorials.html
Go into the light!
Norbert's Lighting tutorial
(offline, but go visit anyway)

Nice series of trueSpace tutorials

Caligari's tutorial roundup.

caliForum Tutorium

Caligari Video Training Courses- Now All Free
Fundamental Series
Master Series
Recommended Order to use the above video tutorials:
trueCurriculum

trueSpace User Library
Search the 'Old' caliForums
Search the 'New' caliForum
Search the tSML (truespace Mailing List)

Here's the Archive

tS7 -Finally! Search the entire PDF Manual easily!

Map showing locations of tS users worldwide
Add yourself!
Pull on into the garage!
dvgarage

Building a viking ship's hull

Home of Path Tools and other useful scripts

CK Game Factory- tS Plugins
(now archived)

Emmanuel Asset's TSX Archive Project

mattam's 'Quickie Fish'

GeneG's Violet (tS4)

tS4 Bones
Renderosity's generosity!
Renderosity tutorial roundup.
(something funky going on at renderosity so good luck finding tuts)

Spiraloid Forums
The following links are for some useful tools for textures and galleries.

Explore in RealTime, Share and Distribute your tS 4/5 projects

Give Windows the ability to display TGA thumbnail images with ThumbPlug TGA

Crazy Bump Normal Map Generator

TextureMaker- Texture and Normal Map Creation Tool

Porta- Image Gallery Generator

Simple Viewer- Airtight Interactive

Wink- Tutorial Generator

PTgui - Panorama Stitcher

WWW Unit Converter

Free Image Utility

The GIMP Image Utility

MapZone Texture Creation Tool

Domains for under $5 ?!

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Links checked and last updated Wednesday, August 6, 2008