Logo
  • Installation
    • System requirements
    • Download
    • Installation
      • Linux
      • Windows
      • macOS
      • Compressed (TGZ) package
  • System Directories
    • Linux
    • Windows and macOS
  • Running Gaia Sky
    • Running regular installation
      • Linux
      • Windows
      • macOS
    • Running from tar.gz package
    • Running from source
      • Requirements
      • Getting the catalog data
      • Compiling and running
    • CLI arguments
    • Packaging the software
  • User manual
    • Settings and configuration
      • Graphics settings
      • Interface settings
      • Performance
      • Controls
      • Screenshots
      • Frame output
      • Camrecorder
      • Panorama mode
      • Planetarium mode
      • Data
      • Gaia
      • System
    • The configuration file
    • Graphics configuration
      • Resolution and mode
      • Graphics settings
        • Graphics quality
        • Antialiasing
        • Point cloud style
        • Line style
        • Bloom effect
        • Unsharp mask factor
        • Lens flare
        • Motion blur
        • Fade time
      • Elevation representation
      • Shadows
      • Image levels
      • Experimental
    • Proxy configuration
      • Use system proxy
      • Direct configuration
        • HTTP
        • HTTPS
        • SOCKS
        • FTP
    • Dataset manager
      • Welcome screen
      • Dataset manager
        • Data location
        • Available datasets
        • Installed datasets
    • Controls
      • Keyboard controls
        • Keyboard mappings
        • Focus and free camera modes
        • Spacecraft mode
      • Mouse controls
        • Focus mode
        • Free mode
        • Game mode
      • Gamepad controls
        • Controller actions
        • Controller UI
    • Camera modes
      • Focus mode
        • Object tracking
      • Free mode
      • Game mode
      • Gaia scene mode
      • Spacecraft mode
      • Field of View mode
    • Camera behaviors
      • Cinematic behavior
      • Non-cinematic behavior
    • Control panel
      • Time
      • Camera
      • Type visibility
        • Per-object visibility
        • Velocity vectors
      • Visual settings
      • Location log
      • Bookmarks
      • Datasets
      • Music
      • Bottom buttons
        • Minimap
        • Load dataset
        • Preferences window
        • Log
        • About/help
        • Exit
    • Search objects
    • Focus panel
      • Focus object
      • Mouse pointer location
      • Camera information
    • Object visiblity
    • Datasets
      • Preparing datasets
        • Object IDs
        • Object names
        • Positions
        • Proper motions and radial velocities
        • Magnitudes
        • Colors
        • Variability
        • Other columns
      • Loading datasets
        • Star datasets
        • Particle datasets
        • Star cluster datasets
        • Variable star datasets
      • Managing datasets
        • Dataset highlight color
          • Dataset preferences
    • Stereoscopic (3D) mode
      • Stereoscopic profiles
    • Planetarium mode
      • Single-projector setup
      • Multi-projector setup
        • MPCDI
        • Gaia Sky configuration file
    • Panorama mode
      • Configuration
      • Creating panorama images
        • Injecting panorama metadata to 360 images
      • Creating spherical (360) videos
    • Bookmarks
    • Bounding shapes
      • Adding bounding shapes
      • Removing shape objects
    • Location log
    • Debug panel
    • External views
    • Connecting Gaia Sky instances
      • Configuration
      • Configuration: replica instance(s)
      • Configuration: primary instance
      • Caveats
    • Camera paths
      • Camera path file format
      • Recording camera paths
        • Real time recording
        • Keyframe editor
          • Keyframe and camera files
          • Creating and editing keyframes
          • Keyframes preferences
      • Playing camera paths
    • Scripting
      • Quick start
        • Requirements
        • Running a test script
      • The scripting API
        • Using the API remotely
        • API documentation
      • Writing scripts for Gaia Sky
        • Logging to Gaia Sky and Python
        • Method and attribute access
        • Strict parameter types
        • Loading datasets from scripts
        • Synchronizing with the main loop
        • More examples
      • Running and debugging scripts
    • REST API server
      • Using the REST API server
      • Debug
    • Capturing videos
      • Frame output system + ffmpeg
      • OpenGL/Screen recorders
        • Linux
        • Windows
    • Taking screenshots
      • Screenshot modes
    • SAMP integration
      • Implemented features
      • Unimplemented features
    • Procedural planetary surfaces
      • Surface generation process
        • Seamless (tilable) noise
        • Noise parametrization
      • Cloud generation process
      • Descriptor files
        • Randomize all
        • Surface description
          • Color look-up table
          • Noise parameters
        • Cloud description
        • Atmospheric parameters description
      • Procedural generation at runtime
    • System logs
      • Session log
      • Crash reports
  • Advanced topics
    • Performance
      • Maximum heap memory
        • Heap memory on Linux
        • Heap memory on Windows
        • Heap memory on macOS
        • Heap memory when running from source
      • Graphics performance
      • CPU performance
        • Multithreading
        • Limiting FPS
        • Draw distance (levels of detail)
        • Smooth transitions
    • Graphics performance
      • Graphics quality setting
      • Dynamic resolution
      • Star brightness
      • Star groups
        • Billboards
        • Labels
        • Velocity vectors
      • Model detail
      • Bloom, lens flare and light glow
      • Antialiasing
    • Internal reference system
      • Description
      • Internal units
    • Data format
      • Where are the data files defined?
        • catalog-[name].json example
        • data-main.json example file
      • Data loaders
      • Catalog formats
        • Star catalogs
          • Regular star catalogs
          • Level-of-detail star catalogs
      • JSON data format
        • Top-level objects
        • Model objects
          • Coordinates
          • Rotation
          • Model
          • Clouds
          • Atmospheric scattering parameters
        • Mesh objects
        • Orbits
        • Grids and other special objects
      • Creating your own catalog loaders
      • Loading data using scripts
    • Level-of-detail catalogs
      • Data format
        • Metadata file
          • Version 0
          • Version 1
        • Particle files
          • Version 0
          • Version 1
          • Version 2
    • Defining an extrasolar system
      • Initial set up
      • Defining the objects
        • Stars
        • Planets
    • Cubemaps
  • Gaia Sky VR
    • Running Gaia Sky VR
      • Pre-requisites
        • Windows
        • Linux
    • Getting the data
    • Controls
    • Caveats
    • Common problems
    • More info
  • Tutorials and workshops
    • Video tutorials
    • Written tutorials/workshops
      • Video production tutorial (2020)
        • Before starting…
        • The User Interface of Gaia Sky
        • Loading datasets
        • Camrecorder: recording and playing back camera files
          • Keyframe system
        • Frame output system
        • Scripting
      • Gaia Sky tutorial (DPAC 2021)
        • Before starting…
        • Basic controls
          • Movement
          • Selection
        • The User Interface
          • Control panel
          • Quick info bar
          • Debug panel
        • Time controls
        • Camera modes
        • Special render modes
        • Toggle visibility of components
          • Velocity vectors
        • Visual settings
        • Loading external datasets
          • Working with datasets
        • External information
        • Camera paths
          • Keyframe system
        • Frame output system
        • Scripting
        • Conclusion
  • Frequently Asked Questions
    • Q: What is the base-data package?
    • Q: Why do you have two different download pages?
    • Q: Why so many Gaia-DR catalogs?
    • Q: Gaia Sky crashes at start-up, what to do?
    • Q: I’m running out of memory, what to do?
    • Q: I can’t see the elevation data on Earth or other planets!
    • Q: What is the internal reference system used in Gaia Sky?
    • Q: Can I contribute?
    • Q: I like Gaia Sky so much, can I donate to contribute to the project?
  • Javadocs
  • Changelog
  • About
    • Contact
    • Author
    • Acknowledgements
Gaia Sky
  • »
  • Tutorials and workshops
  • View page source
Previous Next

Tutorials and workshops

This page gathers a list of learning resources about Gaia Sky. Find them below int the video tutorials and workshops sections.

Video tutorials

  • Gaia Sky video tutorials

  • Gaia Sky videos channel

Written tutorials/workshops

  • Video production tutorial (2020)
    • Before starting…
    • The User Interface of Gaia Sky
    • Loading datasets
    • Camrecorder: recording and playing back camera files
      • Keyframe system
    • Frame output system
    • Scripting
  • Gaia Sky tutorial (DPAC 2021)
    • Before starting…
    • Basic controls
      • Movement
      • Selection
    • The User Interface
      • Control panel
      • Quick info bar
      • Debug panel
    • Time controls
    • Camera modes
    • Special render modes
    • Toggle visibility of components
      • Velocity vectors
    • Visual settings
    • Loading external datasets
      • Working with datasets
    • External information
    • Camera paths
      • Keyframe system
    • Frame output system
    • Scripting
    • Conclusion
Previous Next

© Copyright 2013-2024, Gaia Sky, Antoni Sagristà Sellés.

Other Versions v: 3.2.0
Tags
3.0.0
3.0.1
3.0.2
3.0.3
3.1.0
3.1.1
3.1.2
3.1.3
3.1.4
3.1.5
3.1.6
3.2.0
3.2.1
3.3.0
3.3.1
3.3.2
3.4.0
3.4.1
3.4.2
3.5.0
3.5.1
3.5.2
3.5.3
3.5.4
3.5.5
3.5.6
3.5.7
3.5.8
3.5.9
3.6.0
3.6.1
3.6.2
3.6.3
3.6.4
3.6.5
3.6.6
3.6.7
Branches
master