Differences between 6.1 Help Patches & previous Versions (Help w Baz Tutorials)
In the Baz Tutorials
Here: http://youtu.be/Q1aQC3MjeE8?t=1m46s
And again here: http://youtu.be/6fBI8WhLfuY?t=2m12s
He opens the help patch and then selects some things (I think "subpatches"?) and then copies these from the help patch and pastes them into the patch that he's building.
I cannot figure out how to do this because my help screens do not resemble his. Presumably I am using a later version than Baz (I am using 6.1). How can I replicate what Baz is doing in these videos on 6.1?
The first attachment is a screen shot from Baz Tutorial 5 - Part 2 showing the help patch that he brings up by option-clicking on jit.rota. The scond attachment is what I get with I option-click jit.rota. I've clicked around in there and I can't find a way to imitate what Baz does when he copy/pastes material from the help patch into his maxpatch.
THanks.
Hi
Baz's oldie but goodie tutorials are from around 2009/10 so he is clearly using an older version of Max, probably 5.x. Occasionally helpfiles will be updated, not a comprehensive re-write, just the odd one here and there, and jit.rota is one of those that has indeed changed, so I understand your confusion. However, why not just use the screenshot and manually add the objects he uses??
Brendan
Are you saying use a screen shot as a reference but add each object, number, etc manually into my patch? That seems do-able.
In general, is copying a group of items from the help-patch something that can no longer be done?
Absolutely not, helpfiles are an often under-used resource for learning Max. It's just that older video tutorials might not/will not look the same as your new shiny version of Max. Particularly since Max 7. And doing this manually is all part of the learning curve.
Also check out Peter Batchelor's toots:
and I still cite Christopher Dobrian's toots and docs as important too; perhaps because I like to learn by doing, as his approach is very practice based, for example:
Brendan
These are great resources, thank you!