OK... we all agree that the tutorials need updating in view of all the new progress that the plugin has made... but here are a few things I have 'discovered' that I could even find a refernce to in any of the tutorials (that I have read).
1. SPAWN POINT: FACING THE RIGHT DIRECTION:
This one was driving me nuts... Linking into my age and facing the 'wrong' direction .... grrrr .
Actually, this is very simple to change...by using Rotate in LOCAL view (not global) ... so that the Y axis arrow is pointing in the OPPOSITE direction of the way you want to face when you 'arrive' at your Spawn Point.
In the following example... I wanted to arrive at the small island and be facing the large one...
... which results in me arriving like this....
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2. LIGHTING AN OBJECT WITH A SUN
This one also took me about an hour to figure out ....
If you are lighting something with a SUN (or in my case moon!) ... make sure that you have applied the Ctrl+A (Apply scale and Rotation) if at any point you have rotated your object during the design phase. (I had moved my small island around to several positions and rotations....and forgotten that I had done so. When I went into the age (before applying Crt+A) it was being lit from the wrong direction!!...
I have not done a lot of experiemnting with lighting, but I would suggest that if you rotate any objects at any time that are going to be affected by a light... then always use the Crtl+A command once your object is in it's 'final' resting place..
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I don't know if either of these things ARE mentioned elswhere...but if they are... I couldn't find them..
Anyhow, now I've started this thread...I'll add any new 'discoveries' as I find them ...
Hope they help some other newbie ...