<div dir="ltr">Hello,<div><br></div><div>I've recently registered an account on Blender Wiki (as Stan Pancakes) to participate in improving Blender's documentation, but due to my inattentive reading of <a href="http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Meta:Guides/Writer_Guide" target="_blank">http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Meta:Guides/Writer_Guide</a> I already seem to have made a bit of a mess, for which I apologize.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Preamble:</div><div><br></div><div>Basically I wanted to consolidate all the information about color mixing (blending) on the Wiki.I gathered the information in this thread on BlenderArtists forum: <a href="http://www.blenderartists.org/forum/showthread.php?293905-Blend-and-interpolation-modes-for-the-manual">http://www.blenderartists.org/forum/showthread.php?293905-Blend-and-interpolation-modes-for-the-manual</a>.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Currently, the wiki has these pages referring to blending (or mixing) colors:</div><div>Mix node in Compositor: <a href="http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Doc:2.6/Manual/Composite_Nodes/Types/Color#Mix_Node">http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Doc:2.6/Manual/Composite_Nodes/Types/Color#Mix_Node</a></div>
<div>Color Mix in Blender Render node materials: <a href="http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Doc:2.6/Manual/Materials/Nodes/Types/Color">http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Doc:2.6/Manual/Materials/Nodes/Types/Color</a></div>
<div>Blender Render ramp shaders: <a href="http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Doc:2.6/Manual/Materials/Properties/Ramps">http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Doc:2.6/Manual/Materials/Properties/Ramps</a></div><div>Color Mix in Texture nodes: <a href="http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Doc:2.6/Manual/Textures/Types/Nodes/Color">http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Doc:2.6/Manual/Textures/Types/Nodes/Color</a></div>
<div>Until my intervention, Blend type on the Blender Render Texture Influence page: <a href="http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Doc:2.6/Manual/Textures/Influence/Material">http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Doc:2.6/Manual/Textures/Influence/Material</a> referenced a non-existing "Compositor Mix Node" page.</div>
<div>and this empty page: <a href="http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Doc:2.6/Manual/Render/Cycles/Nodes/Color">http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Doc:2.6/Manual/Render/Cycles/Nodes/Color</a> which technically would contain the same info (since Cycles has a MixRGB node as well).</div>
<div><br></div><div>What I initially wanted to achieve was to have the info on one page, while other pages would simply have links to it.</div><div><br></div><div>Problem:</div><div><br></div><div>...But instead of following the writer's guide instructions, posting to this list and making edits in my own user space, I went to #blenderwiki IRC where I contacted Greylica, and after a short discussion the effort transformed into creating this page: <a href="http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Doc:2.6/Manual/Textures/Influence/Material/Blending_Modes">http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Doc:2.6/Manual/Textures/Influence/Material/Blending_Modes</a> and flow of edits to this page: <a href="http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Doc:2.6/Manual/Textures/Influence/Material">http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Doc:2.6/Manual/Textures/Influence/Material</a>.</div>
<div>As I see it now, this was not a great course of action, and it currently only brings more duplicated info and confusion into Wiki.</div><div><br></div><div>After reviewing all the mess that occurred, I now see that:</div>
<div>1) There is much more to consolidate than just color mixing. Compositor, Blender Render and Cycles nodes, texture nodes, ramp shaders, textures all provide similar (or even identical) means to manipulate colors: mixing, curves, ramps, etc. Of course, slight differences are at hand (e.g. Compositor's Mix node having additional 'Use Alpha' setting, etc.)</div>
<div>2) Trying to create one central page for such info with links leading to it may not be the best course of action, since this could confuse the users and interfere with search engines' indexing.</div><div>3) Even if creating such page may be beneficial, it should be made for all possible nodes/menus/lists, not *just* the color mixing, so it's not really a "edit-one-page" task.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Questions:</div><div><br></div><div>Do you think that it still may be worth it to restructure the manual a bit and consolidate all recurring and duplicated info on one (or a few) pages, and place links to it on currently existing pages? I could more effort into providing better descriptions for e.g. blending modes and the role of blending factors, and work towards uniting descriptions for various other color manipulation utilities (RGB curves, etc.); of course, this time in my user space, so as to not mess up the manual. Maybe create a separate section not unlike that new section about Freestyle, e.g. call it "Color Manipulation", and gather all the info about mixing, enhancing, and otherwise manipulating colors in Blender in that section?</div>
<div>Or should I just drop this and forget I ever intended to do this?</div><div><br></div><div>Again, I apologize for any confusion introduced into manual and inconvenience it may cause.</div><div>
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<p lang="ru-RU">С уважением,<br>Станислав
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<p align="RIGHT">Kind regards,<br>Stanislav Blinov</p>
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