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Video Tutorials
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Video lessons by Disney
-----------------------

David Rose, from Walt Disney VR Studio, occasionally holds classes based on
the fundamentals and working of Panda3D. Below are a few of these lectures.

**`Characters Part I <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sePa3e7-lZQ>`__**

*Recorded October 8, 2003*

Eggs, Characters and Actors

**`Characters Part II <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uPBc0OMttm8>`__**

*Recorded October 22, 2003*

This is a recap of character animation in Panda3D.

**`PStats <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZcgfryLdUQ>`__**

*Recorded February 24, 2004*

Demonstrating the use of Panda's built-in performance analysis tool.

**`Threading <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aRaGM-9Vvr8>`__**

*Recorded March 26, 2008*

The current state-of-the-art in multiprogramming in Panda.

**`Windows, Buffers, and
Cameras <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJEgWNBv8XY>`__**

*Recorded April 9, 2008*

Fundamentals of managing windows and offscreen buffers, and connecting them up
to cameras for rendering.

**`Scene Graph <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G2gO9ISrlxc>`__**

*Recorded April 2, 2008*

Fundamentals of Panda's scene graph, tricks you can do with it, and how it is
implemented.

**`DistributedObjects <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JsgCFVpXQtQ>`__**

*Recorded April 16, 2008*

How to use Panda's DistributedObject system, for the Python developer.

**`DistributedObjects and the OTP
Server <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r_ZP9SInPcs>`__**

*Recorded April 23, 2008*

Panda's DistributedObject system, and how it relates to the VR Studio's OTP
Server.

**`The OTP Server <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SzybRdxjYoA>`__**

*Recorded April 30, 2008*

What's inside the VR Studio's OTP Server (not part of Panda).

**`The PRC System <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zpOYFcH7_w4>`__**

*Recorded May 7, 2008*

All about Panda's run-time configuration system.

**`Collisions <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5tWcRvqpk7k>`__**

*Recorded May 14, 2008*

How to use Panda's built-in collision system, and how it works.

**`egg-palettize <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_4-PkJDJiE>`__**

*Recorded May 21, 2008*

How to use egg-palettize, and why you'd want to.

**`interrogate <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rh8X5pImzrI>`__**

*Recorded June 4, 2008*

How interrogate works to generate Panda's Python/C++ interface.

**`ODE in Panda <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9qgPyk22Zls>`__**

*Recorded June 18, 2008*

How Panda's built-in ODE integration is intended to be used.

**`Inside an Actor <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L1j0BMck4Z0>`__**

*Recorded July 2, 2008* How the Actor class is implemented, and how to use it.

**`Plugin flow <http://vimeo.com/14704672>`__**

*Recorded August 31, 2010* The Panda3D web plugin design and flow.