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Introduction

• What is the Guild of Writers?
• What is PyPRP?
• What is Blender?
• TPOTS installation working properly on Windows Vista and above as well as several installations side-by-side
• How can I play and explore new Ages?

Ages

• Gallery of our Ages (in progress)
• Ongoing Age Projects
• Forming An Age Project Team
• "I have a great idea for an age... Now what?"

Useful Links

• Guild of Writers forum
• Tutorials in the forum
• Free and useful tools to help in Age writing
• Plasma 101
• Requested Tutorials and Articles
• Troubleshooting FAQ
• Age performance optimization
• Contributing to this Wiki
• List of Sequence Prefixes

Events

• Rapid Age Development Contests
• RAD Hall of Fame

Blender and PyPRP

Blender 3D

• Getting Started with Blender
• The BlenderWiki is an excellent reference.
• Blender FAQ

Getting Started with PyPRP

• Installing PyPRP
• Workspace Setup
• Obtaining your own unique Sequence Prefixes
• Your first age
  • Beginners Tutorial: Your Very First Basic Age
  • Tutorial: Your First (real) Age
  • Video Tutorial: Creating An Age
• FNI (Fog) Settings
• Checking the scale in an Age
• What's New in PyPRP 1.6
• Updating older ages for use with new plugin features in PyPRP 1.0

PyPRP Tutorials

Avatar Logic and Effects

• Ladders
  • Creating a Ladder (The long way)
  • Creating a Ladder (The short way)
• Creating Clickable Books (incomplete)
  • Adding a Journal or Linking Book [1] Link to Andy's Comprehensive Tutorial
  • Adding Sketches to a Journal [2] Link to a forum thread
• Sitting Mods: Making benches and chairs
• Dynamic footprints
• Using Subworlds
• Controlling the Camera
• Rides and curvy animations
• Avatar Animations
  • How To Animate Your Avatar

Game Logic

• Beginner's Guide to AlcScript
• How to make an Object Clickable
  • Friendlier Making something "Clickable"

• Using SDL States
• Using Animations
• Saving Object Animations' States
• QuickScripts
• How To Make Your Objects Collidable
• Callback Messages
• GUI Dialog

Lighting

• Making lightmaps
  • Friendlier Making Lightmaps
• Adding projection lights
• Lightgroups
• Shiny Surfaces - external tutorial
• UV projection and Baking - external tutorial

Modeling

• Modeling a Ladder of interest
• Quick Ladders and Stairs with DupliFrames
• Normal Recomputation

Sky

• Skydome (This links to that part of "Your first real age"
• electroglyph’s Seamless Skydome tutorial

Sounds

• Adding footstep sounds
• Adding Sounds I: Basics
  • Friendlier Putting Sound In Part 1
• Adding Sounds II: fading and 3D
  • Friendlier Putting in 3D Sounds and Triggered Sounds
• Adding sound for kickables
• Random Sounds In Your Age
  • Easier Random Sounds In Your Age: ALCScript Method

Texturing

• Detail texturing: Taking advantage of MipMaps
• Stencils
  • Using stencils to blend textures: Basics
  • Using stencils to blend textures: Cyan's method
  • Painting Stencils in Blender's Texture Paint Mode
  • Stencil Painting in 2.48
• Texturing a cube with two materials
• Animating Textures
• Adding video textures (Incomplete)
• Making Sprites
• Managing Transparent Objects
• Alpha Textures Removing Edge

Vertex Painting

• Using the Alpha Paint feature to blend terrain materials

Water and Swimming

• Adding swimregions
• Making some simple Animated Water
• Making reflective water (wavesets)
• Making Shore Foam
• Ripples
  • Friendlier Making Footstep Ripples in both Non-waveset and Waveset
• Dynamic footprints and ripples
  • Friendlier Prints In Your Age

Video Tutorials

• Video Tutorial: Creating An Age

[Advanced] Reference Manuals

• AlcScript Properties
• AlcScript Technical Manual
• Logic Scripting
• Soft Volumes (Or Softvolumes)
• Drawable Flags

Python scripting

• Plasma Python API
• Creating a Python File
• Using Chronicles

Misc Tools

Importer

• A special version of PyPrp that can import all Ages into Blender

Drizzle

• Drizzle lets you download fan Ages, as well as convert Moul/Myst5/Crowthistle
• Deprecated: see MOUL and MYST V Drizzle: Getting Started
• Deprecated Drizzle: Setting up Netbeans
• Deprecated Drizzle: Finishing Up

Elf Viewer

• viewing Encrypted log Files

Bryce

• Making Terrains With Bryce

3DStudio Max and Maya

• MOULa 3DSMax Plugin
• Making Ladder Regions
• URU:CC/TPOTS 3DSMax and Maya Users: read this

Hacks and Tweaks

URU

• Changing Your Shirt Design
• Create duplicate Shirts
• Opening Up New Places In Ae'gura (forum link)
• Particles! Snow Fall In Your Age
• Turning On the Xmas Tree

MOUL and MYST V

• To convert Moul, MystV, and Crowthistle Ages for offline play, use Drizzle.
• Deprecated: Converting Myst V and MOUL Ages for Uru
• Deprecated: Minkata Fix
• Deprecated: Bahro Screaming Around The Great Arch
• Deprecated: Putting the Light Meter On The Docks