Unreal Technology Help Videos

**legacy-Captain_anarchy** · 03-09-2004, 03:51 PM

Ok I got my membership but when I try to download a tutorial movie it begins about a star system and that i;m not awarded a star.... what's that all about? I just want my tutorial movie:sour:

**legacy-TheGhengisKhan** · 03-17-2004, 10:11 AM

2004 SE comes with all these videos on the second DVD, I sat and watched the first 4 last night, and I'm very impressed. I still signed up on that site though to take the courses. I find that just watching the videos isn't enough, the questions they ask after watching them helps a great deal.

legacy-BadAssVampire · 03-19-2004, 02:22 PM

I am kinda familliar with 3dbuzz and their tutorials from my time when I was playing with Maya.

Are these tutorials only for ut2003 or are there some tutorials mainly for 2004 also? (for onslaught features etc)

**legacy-sjojo** · 03-20-2004, 07:54 AM

Originally posted by Captain_anarchy
Ok I got my membership but when I try to download a tutorial movie it begins about a star system and that i;m not awarded a star.... what's that all about? I just want my tutorial movie:sour:

He started the star system because people were downloading the VTM's then not helping other people out, which was the main reason he started the site! He also was paying for the servers himself and had to come up with a way to limit the downloads because it was costing him a small fortune. There is an audio download that explains everthing on site, also I believe you can still down load the first download file of each VTM series.

**legacy-carlosjr1985** · 03-21-2004, 11:43 AM

Thanx Man! :up:

**legacy-marl0n** · 03-24-2004, 03:30 AM

very nice! I'm defintely getting into ut mapping

legacy-BadAssVampire · 03-25-2004, 04:31 PM

I signed up there

Already was familliar with 3dbuzz but that was for Maya

Now I have learned ALOT about UnrealED in just 2 days.

One day I did the 'first level' tutorial from planetunreal
Yesterday I did all of the VTM's from 3dbuzz level 101 class.. I got a 96% score.

I am now working on the Egypt level assignment.

I just hope the tutorials from the SE dvd will be released thru those classes also.

**legacy-Mr3dmax** · 04-03-2004, 05:21 AM

This star system sux! I started taking some of the classes a few months ago, but had to DL all the videos and I'm on 56k, and most of the stuff I already know since I've been editing since the original Unreal. I think this stuff should be easily available for people that purchased ut2k4. DVD availability was sparse, so I couldn't get it.

I need a quick tutorial on how to get a star.

**legacy-egames-berlin** · 04-03-2004, 01:50 PM

youre on a 56k modem ...
*roflol*

just buy the ut sp edition and youll have all you need!
its cheaper than the dl ;-)

**legacy-Eyce Fyre** · 04-06-2004, 09:15 AM

Does anyone know of good video or text tutorials that do not require a Star System? How am I supposed to help people to get stars if I am a newb? What came first the chicken or the egg?

**legacy-Eyce Fyre** · 04-06-2004, 11:05 AM

Does anyone know of good video or text tutorials that do not require a Star System? How am I supposed to help people to get stars if I am a newb? What came first the chicken or the egg?

**legacy-PCGamerMofo** · 04-25-2004, 05:27 AM

too bad i dont have a dvd player....

**legacy-mandrill** · 04-25-2004, 12:45 PM

You may not need a star to watch the vid tuts on the special ed. dvd but I couldn't find the special ed anywhere when the game came out. I want to watch the vids without having to get stars and get embroiled in the forums of another site (There are too many demands on my time as it is)
Is there any way I can get the video tutorials without jumping through the 3dbuzz hoops?

**legacy-w4RB0t** · 04-25-2004, 05:36 PM

damm i h8 rar files every second file is corrupt

**legacy-D1ZZ** · 04-26-2004, 02:42 PM

HEY

I just looked at the video files and saw it was for ut2003 so are these tuturials also for ut2004?

**legacy-Metalslave** · 04-28-2004, 07:43 PM

I have to agree that the star system sucks. I bought the CD version of UT2K4, because the 2DVD version was sold out everywhere and I think I should be allowed to log in with my CD-key somewhere and download the video tutorials if I want to build stuff for this game.

I *did* buy the game, after all.

**legacy-assassin69** · 04-30-2004, 09:41 PM

Originally posted by Mr3dmax
This star system sux! I started taking some of the classes a few months ago, but had to DL all the videos and I'm on 56k, and most of the stuff I already know since I've been editing since the original Unreal. I think this stuff should be easily available for people that purchased ut2k4. DVD availability was sparse, so I couldn't get it.

I need a quick tutorial on how to get a star.

FYI if you contact buzz and tell him you cannot donwload the vtms they will send you the tutorials on Cd for free i think or maybe you pay shipping and handling but what the f*** is 5 bucks right

**legacy-Metalslave** · 05-01-2004, 01:30 AM

Originally posted by assassin69
FYI if you contact buzz and tell him you cannot donwload the vtms they will send you the tutorials on Cd for free i think or maybe you pay shipping and handling but what the f*** is 5 bucks right

Is that official? If it is, then why bother with a star system in the first place?

Update: I pulled this from the site in question.

'Yes, even members who do not have a Star can get the VTMs. However, you will only be able to receive them via physical mail. This is a slow process, and production is dependent upon availability of blank CDRs. If you have ever downloaded a VTM, you will be unable to get VTMs through the mail. This service is provided ONLY to those who have no other means of accessing the VTMs.'

So basically I'm screwed because I downloaded the first VTM. Exactly how you can become a member without having Internet access to the VTM's is beyond me, though...

The star system is intended to 'to promote interaction and activity in the 3D Buzz community', but that is not the case with me, because it very effectlively stops me after the first VTM.

I think the real reason there is a star system is this,

'You can also get over 110 HOURS of VTMs by purchasing the Best of 3D Buzz DVD Collection! Details are included below!'

Sorry to harp on about this, but it really annoys me. I was very excited about getting VTM's along with the DVD-edition of UT2K4, so I could finally get to grips with UnrealEd. But like I mentioned before, that edition wasn't available anywhere here when the game got released, so I bought the CD-version, assuming that the VTM's would be made available to CD-owners as well. This has not been the case, however and I think it's rather unfair.

**legacy-SycoCowz_X** · 05-04-2004, 03:00 PM

you can download all the videos in a VTM without a star if you sign up in a class for that VTM

**legacy-DeconWinter** · 05-18-2004, 09:57 AM

Simply Wonderful.

/bow :heart:

**legacy-CoreBurn** · 06-07-2004, 09:33 PM

Ok, so I can understand if they don't want their bandwidth used up by people downloading the videos... but uh whatever happened to the idea of mirror sites? FilePlanet? Torrents? It's really frustrating that there isn't other places you can download these...

**legacy-HeadSnipa** · 06-10-2004, 02:53 PM

TELL ME TELL ME

Can u creat a character in this game and if not do u pick TELL ME TELL ME

:haha: :weird: :bulb:

**legacy-SeXXXy** · 06-27-2004, 10:40 AM

Great, there server does not support resumable downloads. I cant even download the most important tutes in my 5hr session limit.

Great ****ing work:down:

**legacy-MonkSix** · 06-29-2004, 07:03 PM

Looking over that site, it appears that it mostly deals with UT2K3 - is there anything worth-while there for UT2K4 or would I be wasting my time signing up?

**legacy-BtDMH** · 07-10-2004, 06:37 PM

The level design and mesh design tutorials use the same techniques found in UT2004.
The scripting tutorials are a bit behind the times these days, as things are done differently in UT2004.

**legacy-TalonKarrde** · 07-12-2004, 03:55 AM

Edit: Nevermind. It seems Buzz doesn't want anyone sharing his files but him.

**legacy-Brain Trepaning** · 07-12-2004, 03:34 PM

There are a coupla tutorials in my sig. So long as the bandwidth is okay, download them. If the bandwidth for the day is all used up, gotta grab them about 12:30AM PST, when they turn the site back on.

One is a player model from 3DMax6 to UnrealEd in 1/2 an hour, the other is for morphing props.

**legacy-Harsh_but_Fair** · 08-06-2004, 05:41 AM

This a very large noob question i know, but wat video program do i need to run the Windows Media PLayer, Real 1 player, and Quicktime all don't work.

. i just get the voices.

Harsh

**legacy-axon** · 08-09-2004, 05:43 AM

OHW MY F**KING GOD!!! PEOPLE LIKE YOU SAVE NOOBS! THIS IS THE BEST **** I EVER SAW!

**legacy-Demondo[3dbuzz]** · 08-24-2004, 08:50 PM

Lots of good news for those of you who have been enjoying BuZZ unreal training content.

First and foremost, if you have been following the "System Reversion" countdown on 3dbuzz, well it ended today. (And was quickly replaced by the DVAS countdown.) But one of the cool things that it brought was an announcement on the front page of 3DBuZZ.com it seems that the much criticized star system will be removed within the next 48 hours! (To be safe, expect it to be removed by Friday.) In any case, this means the following things.

All VTMs that only require you to have a star to download them will be freely downloadable. This means all the Unreal VTMs that are currently on the site.
No announcement has been made regarding if The Unreal Tournament 2004 Special Edition / 2 DVD Edition VTMs will be put up for download. Considering Epic (or is it Atari) owns the rights to them though, it still seems unlikely.
Member Sponsor VTMs (like the C++ VTM) will still only be downloadable by member sponsors.
Online course only VTMs, like the special effect Houdini VTMs, will still only be available by progressing in the online course.

Nevertheless, this means that the 50 hours of content, or so, spanning Max, Maya, Unreal and more which was available to brand new 3dbuzz members while the star system was in place, will be replaced by 100+ hours. Which is a good thing.

Secondly, if you have been following the free Unreal classes over at MasteringUnreal (aka 3DBuZZ's sister site.) Then you may have noticed that the grading has been going crazy slow over the past 6 months or so. This problem has been fixed! The awesome, and super knowledgeable, modding clan - clan|UED| has offered to help BuZZ with the grading process. The new graders are broken down as follows:

Code:

Name (Forum account)               - Will grade:

ValHallen (Invader_Val)            - Level editing 101, Static mesh design
Mr. SlackPants (Mr. SlackPants)    - Level editing 101, Static mesh design
MVP (MVP)                          - Level editing 101, Static mesh design, UScript
TheVillageIdiot (TheVillageIdiot)  - Level editing 101
BtDMH (BtDMH)                      - Level editing 101
Scope (UC|Scope)                   - Level editing 101
GordonZero (|UED|Gordonzero)       - Level editing 101, UScript
KhaoticMind (MKhaos7)              - UScript

All the markers are extremely qualified. And will do their best to catch up on the huge backlog of assignments. Please be patient with them, they are all volunteers.

Also, be sure to check out the clan's newest (and first official) map pack! It contains some very very cool things. You can download the map pack here. It weight in at close to 130 mb!

Finally, the Unreal Book is finally done too. This news will be posted in the official book thread as well, but is so awesome, I thought I'd post it here too. Lots of good news about this. Firstly, you can read the official info on the front page of 3DBuZZ, but here is the key stuff. The book *will* be 1,100 or so pages! Amazon's count of 704 pages was from old numbers that the publisher had. So it'll be a true "Unreal Bible". Speaking of Amazon, the book will retail for $50, but you can order it off Amazon with free shipping for $33.99 Sams Publishing will give you a similar, but smaller, discount if you order off their site.

You can check out the outdated chapter list if you wan't for a small idea of what the book will be like. But remember, this list is many months old and has probably changed significantly! Be sure to take it with a grain of salt and a oversized margarita.

**legacy-SiGARMS** · 08-24-2004, 09:08 PM

I'd like to add that despite the recent changes, 3dbuzz is still a very community oriented site and encourages you to participate and give back to the 3dbuzz community in exchange for free VTMs and forums. Leeching is teh suck.

**legacy-MVP[3dbuzz]** · 08-24-2004, 09:19 PM

Agreed Sigarms!

3D Buzz is a very helpful community to both n00bs and the more experienced kind...

I hate how alot people discriminate n00bs for being a n00b, we were all there, 3d buzz wasnt like that when I started, so I stuck around...(Looking back on some posts in this thread (*shakes head in disgust*))

The grading has really picked up, the Level Design assignment stack is just about gone, the staticmesh is gone, the uscript has quite a few to go... so we are definetly progressing! =]

**legacy-phOny** · 08-25-2004, 09:14 AM

For those of you in the UK you can order it on Amazon UK at a 30% saving and get it for a touch over 25 quid at http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/...968675-7082824 great value!

**legacy-Demondo[3dbuzz]** · 08-26-2004, 04:06 PM

Well, for those who have been waiting desperately for the "48 hours" there is good news. The star system, has been taken down.

**PointlesS** · 08-26-2004, 04:12 PM

thank you! I know bandwidth isn't exactly cheap and it must've been a hard decision to make but I really appreciate the work you guys do...without the star system now I can skip the things I know and go right into what I want...cheers and thanks again for the quality work you guys do...

**legacy-Demondo[3dbuzz]** · 08-26-2004, 05:14 PM

Enjoy the videos, and yes, there are a couple of bugs in the system right now, they're working on it. Also, please remember, the community was, is, and shall remain just that -- a community. If user interaction dies, the star system can easily return.

**legacy-Wolv34ine** · 01-21-2005, 06:42 AM

I tried to grab a tut last week from the Adobe P Shop section and got a message saying faield to log me in etc. I was logged in though, is this a known bug?

PS. The tuts are the backbone of the community in my opinion.Second to none

**legacy-Demondo[3dbuzz]** · 01-21-2005, 09:37 PM

Yes it is a known problem... in my now outdated FAQs there is a solution. http://demondo.net/#4.05

**legacy-Zynith** · 04-15-2005, 11:55 AM

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Couldn't Connect.

Anyone know when it's getting up again?