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@bsaul, video tutorials are a very interesting idea. In the first release, however, we have incorporated few toy-projects and interactive tutorial, which guides you step by step inside the product. Do you think video tutorials are better to understand / follow than examples or interactive tutorials ?

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I would definitely prefer video tutorials, they would be massively helpful for me to learn. By the way, if anyone wants to make a youtube channel about luna, I'd subscribe, if anyone wants to make a udemy video course - I'd buy it =)

@rayalez thank you for your feedback! It is very interesting for me personally. I would not have thought that video tutorials could be better than interactive ones, but it is probably because of my strong personal preferences towards examples / interactive tutorials. On our short roadmap I see new demo scenes only, but we will talk internally about video tutorials tomorrow. If you think you would like to help us with them – by providing ideas or just helping us create them, we would be more than interested in collaborating with you! :)

Just to say a big thanks from one of us who prefer text.

I know some people prefer video but I strongly prefer text and examples.

Feel free to add video as well, - just wanted you to know at least some of us where happy :-)

Yes, video tutorials are very important for visual tools. I used to prefer books (and still do for digging deep into a tool) but these days to learn anything new in computing I prefer videos. That way I can just see how it works in 30 mins rather than wasting a few hours to setup environment, learn basic stuff and try it out.

If the video intrigues me then I invest time in setting it up and reading the documentation.

I wasn't thinking of a tutorial, but a demo. it's a bit different. The purpose isn't to teach me how to use the tool, but to understand and see what it will look like and what i'll be able to do once / if i ever learn to use it properly.

Then maybe i'll install the software, then i'll go to the tutorials (in that order).

@bsaul, oh I understand. I think we are not there yet. We do not have many ready use cases built in Luna. We will be working with our community to use Luna in real projects / create interesting examples. Then we would build a video showing Luna possibilities.

Right now think about Luna like about a new programming language with rich, visual representation and a very limited set of available libraries. If you are processing data that could be visualized or you are inspecting data, looking for the best way to modify / understand it - Luna could be the tool you are looking for.

I strongly encourage you to play with Luna, see example demo scenes and try to create something from your field of expertise. We would love to help you do it! Use our chat / forum if you have questions / problems. I would be more than happy to later create a video showing your system in work to demonstrate what Luna is suitable for! :)

What do you think about it? :)

I would also be very interested in a video tutorial. For me, watching a video is usually my first step - then I would try an interactive tutorial.

This was linked on your site and IMO it's sped up about 5x faster than what I could possibly glean information from: https://vimeo.com/250844656

The real-time speed probably doesn't make for a nice animation but it would definitely be easier to follow.

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