Ventuz User Manual - V6.08.xx
Welcome to the Ventuz User Manual.
Ventuz is a powerful, highly extensible application for real-time presentations and as such is most likely different to any other piece of software you have worked with before. In this section, we have collected some great starting points to help you begin learning Ventuz. However, the best way is to start up Ventuz and see it live in action. Inside your Ventuz installation you will find a large collection of tutorial scenes and we highly suggest that you browse through them. Ventuz also contains a great contextual help system, so if you've got a question just hit F1 while hovering over the element of interest.
As with all creative software, this help can only show you examples of what can be done and explain the underlying technology. But it's up to you to use that technology to create something truly beautiful. Think of Ventuz as the brush and canvas to create your presentation: It is up to you what you do with it and how great the result will be.
What's New
For an overview of the latest changes and references to the according documentation have look at the What's New page and the Release Notes of Ventuz.
Getting Started with Ventuz
To get started with Ventuz you can visit one of our Quick Guides. These show you the most fundamental concepts and topics.
- General Quick Guide
- Quick Guide 2D
- Quick Guide 3D
- Quick Guide Logic
- Quick Guide Programming
- Quick Guide System Engineering
Introduction
- An Introduction to Realtime Rendering
- Getting Started
- Projects and Scenes
- The User Interface
- Free Flight Camera & Renderer Navigation
- Layer Editor
- Nodes and Bindings
- Available Nodes
- Material Editor and Stages
- Running a Ventuz Show
- Ventuz Director User Manual
- Common Mistakes by New Users
- Reflections with a CubeMap
- Reflections with a Mirror
- System Requirements
Advanced Topics
- Video/Audio Configuration
- Web Configuration
- Machine Configuration
- Importing Geometry
- Importing PSD Files
- Animation and State Engine
- Main Animation
- Rendering Text
- Sky Box & Environment Map
- Image Based Lighting - IBL
- Layer and IPP effects
- Blendmodes
- Containers and Interfaces & Project Data and Scene Data
- Template Engine & Ventuz Director
- Scene Management
- Input Handling inside Ventuz
- Multitouch inside Ventuz
- Input Handling & External Communication
- Cluster & Multi-Display Setups and Output Shaping
- Ventuz Configuration
- Migration Guide
- Migration Guide Ventuz 5
- Overview of all communication Prototols
Appendix
Feedback
If you still got questions after consulting this documentation or requests for further information, get in touch with us. The best way to do this is to go to the Ventuz Forum and post your question there. The Ventuz staff and the Ventuz community constantly checks the forum for new questions and suggestions and answering your question there will help others with similar problems as well. There might be an answer for your problem there already...