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Roll up your sleeves and get your hands dirty. A more hands on approach to Turtle. The tutorials here will help you learn the basics of Turtle and then kick off the training wheels to deal with more advanced subjects. We add new tutorials rather frequently, so drop in often!

Advanced Lighting

In this tutorial we delve deep into the Global Illumination and Environment system featured in Turtle 4.1. It will provide you with lots of shortcuts that can help you get really nice renders in Turtle and lay out a good workflow for lighting many different types of scenes.

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Ambient and Reflection Occlusion

Ambient Occlusion is a trick invented by film makers to get an indirect illumination effect in a controllable way. In this tutorial you get the chance to check out just how fast Ambient Occlusion in Turtle really is.

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Advanced Baking

The Illuminate Labs Team has been working hard on this new release in order to get you the most advanced lighting techniques available at your fingertips. This tutorial will teach you all about the cool light baking tools in Turtle 4.1.

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Point Clouds

In this tutorial we will work with Turtle's point cloud baking feature. We'll use spherical harmonics to capture different types of light for different purposes.

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Advanced Motion Blur

This tutorial teaches you how to use Turtle's new motion blur features.

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Surface Transfer

Create great looking low poly objects by transferring normals and occlusion from a high poly object

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Tutorials Archive

Tutorials for previous versions of Turtle.

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