[Bf-docboard] A blender FAQ

[Stefano Selleri]

Hi!

>I took the questions from
>http://www.museum.state.il.us/ismdepts/library/linuxguides/blender/,
>but it has no maintainer and the link site seems to be down so I
>rewrote all the questions, but was still clarifing them.
But the site has also answers?

Anywhay IMHO they are tto many and not all usefull...

>The challenge, as I see it is that there are two types of FAQ's. The
>basic one, that blender has but needs a bit of up dating.
Sure

>This is great for people looking into blender for the first time. New users
or
>people who want to join and need quick basic answers. The wiki's
>search engine is tragicly not up to scrach type a simple quiery like
>Render and it gives you every occurance (153) of them in every
>language and on every sub form (BlenderDev). And no were in the first
>20 resaults (reggardless of langage) does it tell you how to do a
>basic render.
 This is partially true, the search engine is sub-optimal, buit Ew. already
clarified this point

For what concern Render one must be terminally dumb to use the search
function

Manual -> Main table of content  (1 click)
Part XI - Rendering (1-click)
http://mediawiki.blender.org/index.php/Manual/PartXI
Rendering is the final process of CG (short of postprocessing, of course)
and is the phase in which the image corresponding to your 3D scene is
finally created. The rendering buttons window is accessed via the Scene
Context and Render Sub-context (F10 or the  button). The rendering Panels
and Buttons are shown in Rendering Buttons..


Rendering Buttons.
The rendering of the current scene is performed by pressing the big RENDER
button in the Render panel, or by pressing F12. The result of the rendering
is kept in a buffer and shown in its own window. It can be saved by pressing
F3 or via the File>>Save Image menu. The image is rendered according to the
dimensions defined in the Format Panel (Image types and dimensions.).

I believe that this is clear, concise and effective, (and I don't say so
becaus I wrote it :P)
no need for "How do I do a render" FAQ

>Goto elysiun genral any time and see how
>many basic questions are being asked repetively, often with statments
>like "sorry if this has been asked a thosand times". Or look for
>people that request things such as"need to know the answer today".
>Many do ask questions outside the realm of saine documentation many
>ask basics.

Herm... wasm't me to wrote this in my last message :)

>Tragicly most people are lasy and would rather not learn a program
>with out full documentation.
So we need full documentation.

>And would hesitate to bring it into the
>work enviroment if some of the users aren't computer fundies and need
>basic refrences or only use it from time to time and forget even
>basics (my proplem when first start, i think i wore a thin patch into
>the gus tutorial reading it so many times).

>This session could be looked at rather than an FAQ but as a index of
>sorts. Links rather back to documentation, than composes of all the
>answers. Only short answers would be add to sections that were
>situationaly less clear or spread over a large area of documentation
>or not covered in the documentation.

All this points to make a better documentation, not a FAQ... so why don't
you join updating the doc?

Stefano
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