Art of Illusion Manual

Contents:

• 1. Art of Illusion Basics
  • 1.1. Overview
  • 1.2. Getting Started
• 2. Object Types
  • 2.1. Primitives
  • 2.2. Curves
  • 2.3. Spline Meshes
  • 2.4. Triangle Meshes
  • 2.5. Skeletons
  • 2.6. Tube Objects
  • 2.7. Reference Image Planes
• 3. Modelling Tools
  • 3.1. Array
  • 3.2. Extrude
  • 3.3. Lathe
  • 3.4. Skin
  • 3.5. Boolean Modelling
  • 3.6. Tube
  • 3.7. Text
• 4. Editing Objects
  • 4.1. Edit Object
  • 4.2. Object layout
  • 4.3. Transforming Objects
  • 4.4. Align Objects
  • 4.5. Rename Object
  • 4.6. Copying Objects
• 5. Lights
  • 5.1. Point Lights
  • 5.2. Directional Lights
  • 5.3. SpotLights
  • 5.4. Procedural Lights
  • 5.5. Lighting Effects
• 6. Image Resources
  • 6.1. The Image Management Dialog
  • 6.2. Importing images
  • 6.3. Tools to manage the images
• 7. Textures
  • 7.1. Uniform Textures
  • 7.2. Image Mapped Textures
  • 7.3. Procedural Textures
• 8. Assigning Textures to Objects
  • 8.1. Simple Textures
  • 8.2. UV Mapping
  • 8.3. Using Layered Textures
  • 8.4. Using Texture Parameters
• 9. Materials
  • 9.1. Uniform Materials
  • 9.2. Procedural Materials
  • 9.3. Assigning Materials to Objects
• 10. Rendering
  • 10.1. Cameras
  • 10.2. Environment Settings
  • 10.3. Raster Engine
  • 10.4. Raytracing Engine
  • 10.5. Illumination - Global Illumination, Caustics and Subsurface Scattering
  • 10.6. Saving Rendered Images
• 11. Animation
  • 11.1. The Score
  • 11.2. Keyframes
  • 11.3. Adding and Editing Tracks
  • 11.4. Previewing and Rendering Animations
• 12. Scripting
  • 12.1. Object Scripts
  • 12.2. Tool Scripts
  • 12.3. Startup Scripts
  • 12.4. Scripts and Plugins Manager
• 13. Viewpoint Mangement
  • 13.1. Basic View Controls
  • 13.2. Advanced View Settings