[Bf-docboard] Particle Pages

[Roger Wickes]

Well, You can move them over I guess, I mean I cannot stop the author from doing so, but I don't see how you could say the pages are complete. The Emitter page at http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Manual/Particles-Emitter has a picture and description of one panel, but there are at least four panels used, and has no practical examples. Maybe I am looking at the wrong page. Granted, the Visualization and Children and Bake panels could be discussed once somewhere, but I cannot find them. 

Same with the Reactor page that I see at http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Manual/Particles-Reactor again more of a reference manual description of the fields. Image 5 is neat looking, but there is not any description of what the settings were to USE the system, and again no practical examples. I think people want to use the system, but telling them what fields do individually does not accomplish that goal. 

The hair page that I see at http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Manual/Particles-Hair has an outdated picture of one panel, notes about what to discuss, no examples, and no discussion of Particle Mode in 3D View. 

None of the above three system discussions include Newtonian, Boids, or Keyed physics or integration, and when to use which one. The Physics panel changes radically depending on the Physics system used. 

Maybe I'm looking at the wrong pages, or maybe I'm asking too much for the new panels to be documented in some form, or practical examples of use provided. I just came back from two weeks in LA recording over 100 video tutorials on Blender and am exhausted and possibly expecting too much. I DO THANK SoylentGreen for taking a good start, but the ball needs to be moved further down the field before we can call it a touchdown, IMHO. 

--Roger

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   3. new particle pages in sandbox (Bastien Montagne)
   4. Re: new particle pages in sandbox (Tobias Regenbrecht)
Am Samstag, 31. Januar 2009 14:34:42 schrieb Bastien Montagne:
> Hi every body,
>
> Where are we with all the pages about the new particle system, which are
> still in sandbox, but haven't been modified since nearly one year now?
>
> Shouldn't we put them in the regular manual (even if they aren't yet
> really complete...)

I consider they are pretty much complete, but I haven't put them in the manual 
because Roger wanted a different organisation of the pages. 


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