Telephone Cord Tutorial

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phonecord_th.jpgGreybeard has done it again with a great new tutorial on creating telephone cord in Blender. As with all of his video tutorials the care for details and quality have impressed us. If for anything, it is worth taking a look at this just for seeing how professional a video tutorial can be.

Someone asked me to do a video tutorial for one of thoses curly telephone cords. If others are interested here it is (40Mb):

http://www.ibiblio.org/bvidtute/mytut/curly.mpg

GreyBeard

You can see more of Greybeard’s tutorials at his site here.

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    • jackson guardini

      Great GreyBeard!! I can say that my passion for Blender started in his well done video tutorials!

      Keep this attention and Blender will keep growing trought the world.

      jack

    • Sunshine

      Ahhh yes the great Greybeard.

      I don’t know where I’d be without his wonderful videos. I’d still be stuck in a corner scared after seeing the blender interface for the first time. Speaking of which Is the greatest GUI of all time.

    • Phreak of Nature

      GREYBEARD YOU ROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOCK!!!
      GREYBEARD UR MY MAN !!!!!!!(:-0)

    • http://niel.seyanim.com madman

      “Hello…!”
      Thanks for the vtut! :)

      @
      I think this text is missing:
      (Remember to right click and save as…) XD

    • http://www.peerlessproductions.com Colin Levy (effstops)

      Brilliant!

    • spacestrudel

      Very nice! These tutorials are great stuff… Didn’t watch them all but I shure will when I get a chance

    • http://blendernewbies.com Kernon

      Greybeard’s tutorials have always delivered! Thanks!

    • http://www.streetart.net.au/ spong

      It’s exciting because the simplest objects are often the hardest to model at times :) Thanks greybeard

    • Morris

      I also am a product of the video tutorials. thanks

    • GBOI

      You forgot to say your usual – (dont forget to right click and save as)
      :D
      good on ya greybeard

    • pell

      I’ll have to watch this. I wonder how he gets around the “curve bug”. I made a cord like that before, and it was a major pain because I couldn’t just bevel a curve shape along the cord curve because I’d get strange pinches every time the bevel came around 360 degrees. I ended up using the screw tool with a mesh object.

      By the way, does anyone know the status of the curve bug, and if there are plans to fix it?

    • Tony

      There’s a video tutorial out on how to make Morris? Cool!

    • blendercross

      Great Tut !!!

    • Albrecht Jacobs (LayBack)

      What video/audio codec did you use? I couldn’t play your tutorial: VLC plays only the sound, mplayer plays the video, but the sound is toooo slow and deep, Quicktime and MPEG Streamclip don’t play anything. WMV can’t play mpegs. :-(

      BTW, I am on OS X (10.4.7) and can play nearly everything.

    • unstable

      Big Greybeard plus: he repeats all hotkeys over and over again.
      Will watch the new tutorial tonight. Hope there will be more soon ;-)

    • http://www.sf-galere.net Kram1032

      I have a problem!
      I understand him, until he says, that you have to Join the NURBs.
      Then, he says something like:” So now we do a Stab” or “Shtab” or something like this and I don’t know what this means! The rest of the Tut is absolutely clear to me!
      Please Explain!
      Thx

    • B-headed

      What codec are these videos encoded with?
      none of my players are working.
      i use media player classic

      I wish ppl provided links to the codecs they use to encode their videos.
      There’s too many to keep track of, and everyone seems to want to use a different one each time.

    • Fenrir

      Kram1032: That isn’t “Shtab”, that’s Shift+F
      Have you noticed that he says “erase our default …sphere”, when he deletes the cube at the beginning of the tutorial? :-D

    • roofoo

      I used GSpot to figure out what codec he used, and it is FMP4, which is an MPEG4 codec(FFMpeg MPEG-4). If you download ffdshow (http://sourceforge.net/projects/ffdshow) and configure it to decode the 4CC ‘FMP4′, then VLC player will be able to play the file.

      I also read of a workaround whereby you change the 4cc to DIVX with AVI FourCCChanger (http://www.divx-digest.com/software/avifourcc.html).

    • GreyBeard

      For those that are having trouble viewing this thread see:
      http://blenderartists.org/forum/showthread.php?t=79515

      GreyBeard

    • carlinhos

      Where can I find an appropriate codec for mac os x?
      The video doesnt’t play in Quicktime Player and VLC,
      which normally plays all my videos.

    • pell

      @Albrecht Jacobs, @carlinhos:

      Make sure you have the latest VLC for Mac OS X. I had the same problem (using OS X 10.3.9), but I had an older VLC. I downloaded VLC version 0.8.5 and it worked fine.

      VLC site:
      http://www.videolan.org/vlc/

      Did that help?

    • pell

      Oh, I forgot to say: Excellent job on the video. Not only does it seem to avoid the curve bug (although I haven’t tried the technique myself yet), it’s also an elegant procedural solution to the problem. I wish I’d thought of this technique the last time I tried to make a “phone cord”.

    • MagicMyshu

      Greybeard is the George Washington of blendernation!

    • carlinhos

      @pell

      now it works, thanx!

    • http://www.sf-galerie.net kram1032

      @B-headed:
      Thx and yes I also hearsd it^^
      (But it doesn’t matter, ’cause you know, what he means anyway and in older Tuts, they sey default plane… Was it a plane in older Blender-Vs?)

    • Stopa

      You like…rule!
      Thnx for all the video tutorials they are so much better than regular ones :p