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Hi Luca,<br><br>I should rephrase that. I don't intend to make any significant<br>structural changes to the articles. However, the entire section suffers<br>from a lack of consistency and sparsity of information, as well as a number of<br>example images that could be much more helpful. As just one example,<br>the Lambert shader's entire description currently reads, "This is Blender's<br>default diffuse shader, and is good general all-around work horse...neigh!"<br><br>That's neither particularly instructive nor grammatically correct. It<br>is kind of cute, though.<br><br>I left some comments regarding possible changes but no one has seen fit to respond<br>in more than a year, leaving me with the impression that the Materials section lacks<br>oversight. Perhaps it's just that no one ever checks the discussion pages.<br><br>The type of editing planned will involve numerous small changes, with the purpose of<br>ensuring that all sentences are internally consistent and readable, and that terminology is<br>used consistently throughout. This is work that I can accomplish quickly and at a high<br>level of accuracy, but I can't imagine anyone would be excited to review it,<br>so I'd prefer to simply dig in and get my hands dirty.<br><br>If, however, this is considered poor form or against protocol, I could be convinced to<br>proceed in the sandbox.<br><br>Cheers,<br>Chris (Spectre-7)<br><br>> Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2009 08:41:05 +0000<br>> From: mindrones@yahoo.it<br>> To: bf-docboard@blender.org<br>> Subject: Re: [Bf-docboard] Materials Section Renovation<br>> <br>> <br>> Hi Chris,<br>> <br>> --- On Wed, 4/29/09, Chris R. -- Spectre-7 <kyrie67@hotmail.com> wrote:<br>> <br>> > I'm about to start a thorough editing and update pass<br>> > on the Materials section of the manual, starting at<br>> > http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Doc:Manual/Materials and<br>> > continuing on through<br>> > http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Doc:Manual/Materials/Halos<br>> > .<br>> > <br>> > This pass will include heavy text editing, rewrites where<br>> > necessary, and the replacement of several example images<br>> > (especially the shader examples). Work should be<br>> > completed by Saturday, May 2nd.<br>> <br>> as a suggestion, if the editing is that 'heavy' the best things would be<br>> to prepare a propoal in a page like (say)<br>> http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Meta:Sandbox/Manual/Materials/Halos<br>> and let others give a look, no need to rush no?<br>> <br>> The same has just heppened with Lighting chapter after all, and it has given some good collaborative results :)<br>> <br>> <br>> Regards,<br>> Luca<br>> <br>> <br>> _____________<br>> <br>> http://www.mindrones.com<br>> <br>> <br>> <br>> <br>> <br>> _______________________________________________<br>> Bf-docboard mailing list<br>> Bf-docboard@blender.org<br>> http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-docboard<br><br /><hr />Rediscover HotmailŪ: Now available on your iPhone or BlackBerry <a href='http://windowslive.com/RediscoverHotmail?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_HM_Rediscover_Mobile2_042009' target='_new'>Check it out.</a></body>
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