Tutorials

These tutorials cover variety of features of Neos, from basic tools and features to examples of building specific objects and environments. Each link includes a video tutorial.

Introduction

• A Basic Tutorial
• How to get setup and get into Neos
• Neos VR Crash Course
• Neos VR beginner crash course - importing avatars, inventory, camera and more (livestream tutorial)
• Neos VR beginner crash course - building worlds and importing assets (livestream tutorial)
• Neos VR beginner crash course - basic creation tools, particle systems (livestream tutorial)
• Neos VR beginner crash course - Permissions and Settings (and mayhem at the end)

Basic Tools

• Material Gun
• Glue Tooltip
• Light Tooltip
• Shape Tooltip
• Measuring Tooltip
• Pen Tooltip
• Label Tooltip
• Importer Tooltip (importing assets into Neos)
• Developer Tooltip (including scene and component inspector)
• LogiX Tooltip (basics of the Neos' visual programming system)
• Component Clone Tooltip
• Clone and apply dynamic Components with ComponentCloneTip
• Convex Hull Brush
• Developer tools

Asset Workflow

• Importing Assets
• Convex Hull Decomposition
• Upgrade your world with physical locomotion
• Improve your world collider settings
• Optimizing Collision Physics
• Creating skyboxes
• Lighting
• NeosVR World Lighting Tutorial
• Import model, make it spin
• Edit objects in your worlds easily with Gizmos
• Pivots and Origins
• Non-Uniform Scale Tips
• Avoid Non-Uniform scaling with Procedural Meshes
• Creating a visual identity for your worlds - Color Grading

Materials and Textures

• Creating Materials
• Anisotropic Filtering (AKA Why your textures look ugly)
• Building animated materials with LogiX
• Creating procedural white noise material
• Overview of PBS Displace Materials and a Terrain Visualizer
• PBS Distance Lerp Materials for Distance Based Visualizations

Art Tools

• Brush System Walkthrough
• Creating a grass brush
• Creating Brushes in NeosVR - Geometry Line Brushes
• Creating a leaf brush

Cloud Features

• Submitting Worlds to the public hub

Avatars

• Avatar Fitting
• Avatars Pt.1 - Your first Avatar
• Avatars Pt.2 - Setting up a known Avatar Model
• Avatars Pt.3 - Working with multiple Materials
• Avatars Pt.4 - Importing Unity Package Contents into Neos
• Baking Avatar Meshes in Neos VR to improve performance
• Basic Avatar Setup
• Custom Hands for Head and Hands Avatars
• From A to Neos how to import avatars and set up a jaw bone
• NeosVR devlog - quick grip pose adjustment
• Implementing Desktop System on Avatars
• Import 3D model avatar into Neos VR
• Indicating when you're Mute with your Avatar
• Manual avatar finger rig setup
• New Full Body Calibration tool in Neos VR (tutorial)
• Posing (unoccupied) avatars, posing dynamic bone chains, attaching avatar targets to other objects, animating avatars with LogiX
• Remote Audio for your Avatar
• Rig transfer tool
• How to make a Custom Nametag

Face, Blendshapes, and Gestures

• 2D Blinking tutorial example
• Setting up Gestures with no Logix
• Basic Facial Gestures with Standard Controller
• Basic shape key manipulation with LogiX
• Blendshapes and Avatar setup NeosVR
• The Ultimate Neos Blend Shape Guide
• Customizing a Nametag
• Driving Avatar Expressions with the HTC Lip Tracking module in Neos VR
• Driving Shape keys with a Timer
• EyeLinearDriver for Automatic Character Blinking
• Manual Eye setup for tricky Avatars
• Manual jaw setup
• Manual Viseme Setup for Problematic Avatars
• Setting up avatar jaw lipsync in Neos VR
• Upgrading avatar with blendshapes / visemes

Dynamic Bones

• Dynamic Bone Chain in Neos VR - Quick & Easy Setup Tutorial
• Setting up dynamic bone chain
• Dynamic Bone Chain in Neos VR - Advanced Avatar Setup

Community Tools

• Array Tool
• Blueprints v3.1
• Community created tools
• Ez Avatar Tip! 1.0
• Gesture TLDR Tutorial
• Neos VR Gadget Release: GestureWheel 1.0
• History Material Tip 1.0
• White-boarding in VR using Neotoshop
• Particle creator
• Polymorphic plant brush
• PolyLogiX Multi Tool Tip
• NeosVR Tool Release: Snapper System Generator
• Stair Tool V1
• User Directory

Building Tools

• Brush System Walkthrough
• Creating brushes in Neos VR part 1 - Geometry Line Brush
• Creating grass brush in Neos VR
• Building leaf brush in Neos VR
• Reliable Tool Scaling with RawDataTooltip

Building Objects

• Scripting interactive spaceship door
• Building a gun in NeosVR - pt.1 Model
• Building a gun in NeosVR - pt.2 Sounds
• Building a fire torch (part of Magic Forest tutorials)
• Building a flashlight
• Adding interactivity to furniture models
• Making a turret that shoots you in the face with a laser
• Vehicle System Overview - NEOS VR

Building Environments

• Terrain Splat Shader

Basic World Creation

• Basic World Creation Pt. 1 Simple World
• Basic World Creation Pt. 2 - Spawn Area
• World Creation Pt. 3 - Spawn Points
• World Creation Pt.4 - World Roots and World Organization
• World Creation Pt.5 - Importing World Geometry
• World Creation Pt. 6 - Lighting
• World Creation Pt. 7 - Publishing and Beyond

Building Magic Forest

• Setting up the forest (part 1)
• Making magic mushrooms (part 2)
• Building a fire torch (part 3)

Components

• AssetFrameSlot for Dynamic Assets
• Creating a Chair with Avatar Anchors
• Using AssetMultiplexer to change Materials.
• AxisAligner
• AxisPanner
• Boolean Switcher
• Boolean Toggle
• Using the BooleanValueDriver for Simple Value Changes
• Building a Cube from Scratch
• Teleport users using CharacterTeleporter
• CircleAligner
• Let CopyGlobalTransform... copy global transforms for you
• DestroyOnUser leave, it destroys when a user leaves
• DestroyRoot
• Using DestroyWithoutChildren for automatic world cleanup.
• Driving fields directly with DriveField
• FloatTextEditorParser for Automatic Float UI
• GrabbableAvatarPoseFilter Restrict hand movements when grabbing objects
• Grabbable Overview
• GrabbableParenter
• GrabbableReceiverSurface for Easy Shelves and Tables
• GrabbableReparentBlock
• GrabInstancer
• Grid Alignments with ObjectGridAligner
• Using Joint to make A Door Pt. 1
• Using Joint to make a Door pt.2
• Doors Pt.3 using TouchToggle and Tween for an automatic Door
• MaterialApplyPolicy - Prevent Materials being applied to objects
• Radio button and Radio button group component
• LaserPointer Tool with RayDriver
• LinearMapper's PackXYZ and Re-Map without Logix
• LODGroup Component in NeosVR
• Multiple audio outputs for the same audio source
• Day Night Cycle with MultiTextureFader
• Panner1D, 2D, 3D
• Control the Active Session list with SessionOrbsController
• Slider - A useful alternative to Grabbable
• Snap Target Note: BusinessLawyer has an example in one of his tutorial worlds too
• Snap things with Snappers
• SphereAligner
• Spin things with Spinner
• BasicToolip with RayCastOne
• Easy Straight lines with SegmentMesh and SlotSegmentMesh
• ScaleAligner
• Useful Tagging Components
• Easy audio reactive elements with TalkVisualizer
• Easy Countdown Clock with TextCountdownClock
• TimeIntDriver for Integer Animations
• TouchValueOption for Simple UI
• Distance Based Mirrors with UserDistanceValueDriver
• Using UserJoinAudioIndicator for simple User Join and Leave Notifications
• Using ValueMultiDriver to drive FOUR lights
• ValueCopy
• ValueUserOverride for Local World State
• Wiggle things with Wiggler
• Wobble things with the Wobbler

LogiX

• Avatar Pedestals
• Iterate through / Examine Bones in a Rig
• A Counter which counts up to a certain threshold
• Counter Widget Pt.2 - UI
• Data Types
• DateTime and TimeSpan Nodes for easy Time Maths
• Using DateTime Nodes to make accurate Stopwatches and Countdowns
• Drives vs writes and divergent feedback loops
• Format LogiX node for nicely formatted data
• Dynamic Impulse nodes
• Dynamic material swapping - NeosVR
• Hand Gestures controlling Multiplexers - NeosVR
• How to create DynamicImpulseReceiver with Values
• Logix Event Nodes
• GetComponentEnabled & SetComponentEnabled
• Impulse Demultiplexer
• Logix Driven Material Management
• Make an object make a sound when you Click it
• Organizing LogiX using ValueField components
• Lerping with Smooth Lerp, Constant Lerp, Lerp and Multi-Lerp
• Oscillating / Reciprocating Motion with LogiX
• Using PhysicalButton for... Physical Buttons
• PickRandom node it picks random stuff!
• Rainbow Shader (Material)
• Use Slot Children Events to receive events when Slots are changed
• Make a sound when a world saves
• Sprite Sheets with UVAtlasAnimator
• Stopwatch node for Timed LogiX operations
• Using TouchableData for simple touch based interactions
• Using TouchEventRelay for complicated Touch Events
• Tween Node for Animations
• Using User Joined and User Left for more complex Join/Leave Notifications
• Variables
• What I know About Variables and Ternary Nodes
• Writing a URL to a video player without a dev window open
• Get String from Node.js app

Introduction to LogiX

• Logix Tutorial and Intro Concepts :Part 1
• Visual scripting in VR #1 Introduction to LogiX
• Visual scripting in VR #2 Working with nodes
• Visual scripting in VR #3 Data Types
• Visual scripting in VR #4 Controlling properties
• Visual scripting in VR #5 Coordinate Spaces
• Visual scripting in VR #6 Checkboxes and Buttons
• Visual scripting in VR #7 Finalizing Your Setup
• Visual scripting in VR #8 Variables

Misc

• Components vs Logix which is better? Answer: Both ;)
• Creating an Animated GIF in Neos
• DeveloperMode, The thing you shouldn't use.
• Local Checkboxes for Performance Options
• Neos VR Behind The Scenes: Creator Jam 16 - Swappable Body Parts
• Neos VR Behind the Scenes: Trust - CJ15 Overview
• How to set up performance monitor for headless client
• Explaining LogiX for Neos VR headless client performance monitor
• Public Folders and how to use them.
• Please enable spectator interactions for suitable controls
• Social Stuff - Reading the Room
• Using Custom Fonts in Neos
• World Orbs and Session Orbs

NCR

• Buying and storing Neos Credits
• How to sell and trade Neos credits

Neos Related

• Blender to NeosVR - Textures and FBX Importing - Tutorial
• Casually's Hella Quick-and-Easy Neos Unity SDK tutorial!
• Unity Metallic Value Charts
• Unity PBS Shaders
• Unity Render Queue
• Meta Pt.1 - Setting up OBS for Making Tutorials
• Meta Pt.2 Getting your Neos Session into a Zoom Meeting
• How to edit the Wiki!

Permissions

• Controlling the Audio level of Users
• Controlling Users' Avatars
• Permissions Part 1
• Permission Pt. 2 - Advanced
• Permissions Pt. 3 - Examples
• Permissions - Prevent users from saving a copy of your world
• Spectator Enabled Buttons
• Permissions - Using tags to restrict Locomotion Settings

Producing with Neos

• NeosVR: Tools/Camera
• Capturing a brush POV footage

Streaming

• Playing Twitch Streams and YouTube Links In-Game
• Twitch Integration Pt.1 - Introduction
• Twitch Pt.2 - Reading Messages
• Twitch Pt.3 - Turning a Light On with a Command
• Twitch Pt.4 - Dynamic Impulses
• Twitch Pt.5 - Dynamic Impulses and Twitch
• Twitch Pt.6 Inspecting the Neos Twitch House

Visualization

• Visualizing volumetric MRI scan
• Setting up image color distribution graph
• Mind-mapping in VR

Text

• Creating text in Neos VR
• Working with Text Files Part 1
• Text Files Pt.2 - Write Text To File Node
• Text Files Pt.3 - Using My Data Disk

User Interface (UI)

• ButtonEnumShift
• It toggles a value..
• ButtonValueCycle Cycle through a list of values without LogiX
• ButtonValueSet. It sets a value when a button is pressed
• ButtonValueShift - Automatically shift values around
• Exploring the Radial Menu
• Customising Inventory Thumbnails
• Styling Neos UI Elements

Utilities and Gadgets

• Build a Yeen Tab System
• Player Teleporters
• Player Force Fields / Bounce Pads