Sorry about that. Discreet seems to be making it difficult to get info on Combustion.
There is not a lot of written instruction on Combustion. In fact there are no books available.
There is a free demo available from Discreet.

Hey Robert
 

How good is your internet connection? I can try to email you the tutorial file from Combustion2. It is a 13.5 MB PDF file. Also the help files are navigate-able HTMLs at about 30 MB.

Let me know if you want em.

I zipped em
 

So they are now 16.5mb HTML and 11.5mb pdf.

Let me know....

Marc

Hi Marc, just in case you have a little bandwith left..

could you email the stuff to me, too? ;-)

p.koller@kabsi.at

Thanks a lot!

PS: Do you mean the Help Files that come up when you hit F1 in Combustion? Don´t need them. Just the -pdf then.

Peter
 

The files I have are what came with combustion2. If you have combuction 2 installed and you go to /program files/discreet/combustion2/tutorials/ and look at combustion tutorials.pdf. It is about 14 mb 11.5 ZIPPED. If you don't have this file, I'll send it right along.

Marc

Check rotoscoping out here

http://www.borisfx.com/search/index.php

Hey you need to goto www.dvgarage.com they have the best information on this subject and have a good forum. They also have a compositing toolkit that shows you how to make lightsabers in AF (After Effects).

Rob

@Marc

No, I don´t have the tutorials. Please, pretty, pretty please mail 'em! p.koller@kabsi.at

Hey Peter
 

Check your email inbox...

Hope thats what you needed.

Combustion stuffs...
 

Actually commenting about no books being available for Combustion, there are actually a few books out:

Combustion 2 Courseware from Autodesk Press
(However I'm not sure if you can get this without being a student)

Discreet should still have a few tutorials on their site from the courseware which are very informative (sorry if this was already brought up)
http://www.discreet.com/products/com...tutorials.html

Hey Peter
 

Were the files I sent what you needed?

Tool for rotoscoping
 

Try new free tool for rotoscoping named "Claxa". It can output Bezier masks but can also work on pixel level to provide really live contour almost automatically. http://patchmaker.net/Claxa/

Very clever, Alexander. It looks like you are going to give mocha a run for its money. When do you plan on releasing an AE plug-in?