Gnomon has just opened a new site called Gnomonology. An on-line place for you to download tutorials on demand.
Among the many interesting tutorials, I have contributed to it and added a tutorial for all to enjoy:
superb…
great stuff cheers.
Very nice site, I hope to see many Max tutorials in the future!
well you made one sale 
2 - I am dl it now.
would download, but no ssl or anything conection possible?
dont want to submit my creditcard info through a
“you can have my details” conection. sry.
Could you please send them an email and ask them about this?
it was https for ordering IIRC
it was https for ordering IIRC
Chris, will there be more of these coming ?
That’s the plan… 
3…now I just have to figure out how to download it.
Thanks for the heads up!
tryed it again and indeed, now it was https. so bought your tutorial.
layout looks fine, but the purchase prosess is somewhat strange.
never less, hope to see more tutorials from you.
Re: Gnomonology Online…
Great tutorial and very good price…
Bravo !!!
I thought is was a very clear presentation of the subject. For the price it was just a great value. I did wish you had edited out the portion where you were rendering the adaptive sudivision test. I know you wanted to show the RAM but it felt a bit long. And thats a small crit I really appreciate the lesson. Good meaty instruction.
I ordered it but the only item I can download is the assets. .mov file just hangs when I try to grab it…I suspect a flooded file server!
AWESOME Chris! Can not wait to hear you at DMVC this year.
PLEASE…PLEASE work on a “soup to nuts” LWF tutorial next!
MMMM … Soupy LWF nuts…drool
Cool Dude
Downloading now
Very good chris,
Cecil
Chris,
i’ve just watched this tutorial last night whilst waiting for some renders to finish - great stuff very clear and informative - could i just ask:
In Vlado’s universal settings, he links the AA colour threshold to the QMC (DMC) sampler threshold, and controls the noise from this threshold not the AA one - is there any reason you didn’t do this?
Was it simply for clarity of the tutorial - because basically one or the other of these thresholds (The Adaptive QMC AA clr threshold and the DMC noise threshold specifically) will overwrite each other, meaning they aren’t affected, as they are basically are doing the same thing?
does that make any sense? - i’ve read it back and it’s a bit of a mouthful, but what i’m trying to get at is that either of the noise or colour thresholds will control the amount of noise - any reason for not linking the AA theshold to the DMC noise threshold? You showed in your tutorial how some settings would overwrite others when maximum subdivs and noise levels are reached.
I tend to work in this way, and bizarly enough i’ve also found through day to day work that a setting of min 1 max 16 with 0.003 is almost perfect 90% of the time…great to see your tutorial and realise your doing it the same way!