<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:tahoma,new york,times,serif;font-size:12pt">hi! I contributed significantly to the materials section, added the examples for diffuse and specular shaders and provided those examples because there were none, and I thought users needed a simple visual way to see the differences that each choice made (trivia note I was making an Apple commercial at the time so I used their shade of blue.) I created a section for each of the shaders because I thought each shader needed to be called out, and I personally was sick of fiddling and wanted a reference guide, some page I could scan and say, ah, that is the look I want, and then see what settings to fiddle with to get that. Mindrones has done a great job of reviewing what I have done and improving it as well. <br><br>While I am proud of taking it from nothing to something, I am more than happy to see someone
take it to the next level. btw, if you create a discussion page, there is no way for an existing author to be notified of the change, but, if an author subscribes to page changes, they are notified. I have worked on hundreds of wiki pages, and only subscribe to the compositor ones, and of course my user page. <br><br>Being very resource constrained, there is always the issue of "do I a) fill holes, b) fix defects/omissions, or c) polish" and my priorities are always 1) fixing defects/errors first, then 2) filling holes, then 3) polishing - which is why not a lot in the wiki is polished. For example, the list of known defects and omissions is on the wiki to-do list page, and that page is out of date (:-(-<<br><br>Regarding holes you could drive a truck through, I know that 2.49 includes Texture Nodes, which I think needs warrants more focus/effort than polishing the materials section. However, if Chris wants to start off with and get comfortable with
wiki by enhancing materials, go for it. I would instead though, encourage him to recognize the efforts of the texture nodes programmer and write up some good doco on that, since there is <span style="font-style: italic;">none</span>. For new section, please use sandbox; look at the history page of similar pages and invite those authors to review/collaborate. <br><br>And please use humor, it really brighten's people's day, and it might be something they remember, even if it isn't gramatically correct (yes, I claim all bad jokes in the wiki). <br><br>--PapaSmurf / Roger<br><div> </div>----------------<br>Sent by Roger Wickes for intended recipient. If you are not the intended recipient, please delete this message and contact Mr. Wickes immediately.</div><br>
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