VL.TheBigBang

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End of October '22 a friend asked me if I could make a collection of nodes for him that he should definitely know when learning Gamma. So during Nodevember I sat down going through every single node in the node browser to do so. The outcome now is a beginner tutorial series of 42 patches and topics, covering everything from A to VL and Vector4 (Split).

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Part I: The Initial Singularity

  1. Introduction
  2. Types & IOBoxes
  3. Nodes & Pins
  4. Simple Math
  5. Type Conversion
  6. Colors
  7. Strings
  8. Errors

Part II: The Subatomic Particles

  1. 2D Rendering
  2. 3D Rendering
  3. Complex Types
  4. Process Nodes
  5. Video & Camera Input
  6. Texture Sources & Effects
  7. Mixing Skia & Stride
  8. Control Patches
  9. Animation
  10. Typography
  11. Transformations

Part III: The Cosmic Inflation

  1. Spreads
  2. Iteration
  3. Spread Generators
  4. Looping Techniques
  5. Pads
  6. Update & Create
  7. Managing Spreads
  8. Dictionaries

Part IV: The Primordial Soup

  1. Mouse Input
  2. Collision
  3. Triggers & Flops
  4. Counting
  5. Keyboard Input
  6. Audio Input
  7. Boolean Logic
  8. Ranges
  9. Angles
  10. Transitions
  11. Algorithms
nuget install VL.TheBigBang

Some dogmas I had during the creation:

  • All nodes are only from the standard set in the node browser.
  • 2D and 3D drawing is treated and taught completely equally, all principles are presented for Skia and Stride.
  • No node is ever used that is not explained in the current patch or hasn’t been in one of the previous ones.
  • Focus on clear principles and try not to go extremely complex.

Have fun exploring and bussi baba!

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cool Thanks. I’ll would happily recommand those patches to my students.

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Me too! wishing to see them.
Thanks!

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The tutorials are up and can be installed as a Nuget!

nuget install VL.TheBigBang

https://github.com/chkworks/VL.TheBigBang

Have fun and let me know if there are questions or issues!

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@chk just went through these, They’re brilliant.

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Cool nuget, aswome contrib! thx!

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I started releasing a video tutorial series based on this nuget on YouTube.

Check it out in the other thread:
Video Tutorial Series for Absolute Beginners of VL

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The quality of the videos is impressive. Great job and keep it coming!

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If you enjoy these patches and find them helpful, please consider supporting me on Ko-Fi!
https://ko-fi.com/chk

Special thanks to @remony and @motzi for proof-reading!

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Hey vvvvolks! I updated the nuget so it works with the upcoming version 6.0, did some patch housekeeping and added a few WIP patches about topics I plan to add to the tutorial in the future.

But most important is to mention: I renamed it to VL.TheBigBang!
From now on make sure to use the following command to install it:

nuget install VL.TheBigBang

Please let me know if you still encounter issues that need to be fixed for the next stable. Thanks!

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New in version 6.1.0 - a chapter about Dictionaries.

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