[Bf-docboard] More on the Wiki Process

[Ryan King]

On Mon, Jan 16, 2012 at 06:49:50AM +0100, Knapp wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 16, 2012 at 3:07 AM, Ryan King <rking at panoptic.com> wrote:
> > So, this evening I read the Modeling/Curves page, and noticed that the
> > hotkeys were outdated. I don't have time (tonight) to completely revamp the
> > page, but I did a quick change to update the keys:
> >
> > http://wiki.blender.org/index.php?title=User:Rking/Doc:2.6/Manual/Modeling/Curves&action=history
> >
> > My normal process with Wikis is to see a little deficiency then fix a
> > little deficiency. Here it seems like we are going for a more complete,
> > page-at-a-time approach.
> >
> > Is this correct?  If so, I will simply try to constrain my edits to pages I
> > think I can completely redo. If not, then it would be nice to be able to do
> > small blocks of edits like thet above in some way.
> >
> > -rking
> 
> Last night (Germany) you said in your manual update that people should
> store their movie images as png but I think that statement is dated
> and the correct advice is to use OpenEXR but I am not sure of this. It
> is a much better format because it is 16 bit per channel instead of
> png's 8 and floating point. It also allows for storage of composting
> layers but I am not sure how much Blender uses this. Not sure if this
> is advice or a question but I thought it should be brought up.
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenEXR

By ".png" I simply meant "static, non-video images". I said .png because
it's the default, but this OpenEXR bit sounds like a good point.

What do the rest of you think? Should we advise PNG, OpenEXR, or mention both?

Thanks,
-rking