The Two Minute Tutorial

As posted to the Extreme Wave listserv. Hopefully better tutorials will emerge as Extreme Wave develops.

THE TWO MINUTE TUTORIAL
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1] Compile Extreme Wave. Read INSTALL for lots of helpful information.

2] cd ./ewave/src/ewave

3] ./ewave

4] Click in each of the 4 frames and hit the "2" key three times, or select "View->Zoom" and use the mouse to zoom in on the grid.

5] Select "Primitives->Sphere" from the menu.

6] Click in the top left frame to place a sphere.

7] Select "Tools->Free Pick" or hit "q"

8] Now you can move the sphere around by dragging the point in any frame.

9] With the sphere selected (it will be yellow), select "Window->Object Inspector" and play with the different settings. You don't have to type in values, just click on a field and drag the mouse to change the value. The mouse button you drag with effects the degree of change.

10] To add or change materials, select "Window->Material Inspector", the material will effect the object in the povray render.

11] Add a camera to the scene to use the fourth window.

12] Select "Window->Scene Graph Inspector" to see the scene graph.

13] Write a better tutorial than this!


Last modified: Sun Jun 20 13:17:31 CDT 1999