Franz' screencast scenarii

January 24, 2012

We'll be doing a few screencasts, and here are the scenarii we're planning.

Start appleseed, explain briefly how the UI is organized.
Load a sample scene (one provided in the package).
Start interactive rendering, navigate in the scene, explain the controls.
Stop interactive rendering.
Start final frame rendering, explain the respective purpose of each mode.
Show how to edit the project file to change the number of samples for final frame mode. Bitch about this setting not being exposed in the UI yet.
Save the rendered frame to disk.

Start appleseed.
Import some meshes (use some provided in the package?).
Show how the meshes have appeared in the project explorer, explain the difference between objects and object instances. Bitch about something.
Render the scene and explains why it's all pink.
Use and explain the different diagnostic modes. Bitch about the Depth mode giving unexpected results, although they are actually correct.
Import some textures (again, from the package?) and show them in the project explorer.
Create a few basic materials, bitch a lot about the UI being totally cumbersome at this point.
Apply the materials, show how surfaces have two sides that can be shaded independently.
Show that pink outlines will appear if rounded surfaces with shading normals don't have a back material.

Show how to change the number of rendering threads to reduce the load of the machine and help save the planet.
Explain the concept of render layers.
Load a sample scene, assign a few render layers, render in final frame mode.
Save the render layers to disk, and show how you can composite them to recreate the final image.
Show how you can turn off lights and change lights color using render layers.

This is up to Jon to decide I think.

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