<html><head><style>body{font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px}</style></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><div id="bloop_customfont" style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px; color: rgba(0,0,0,1.0); margin: 0px; line-height: auto;">Hello Noel,</div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px; color: rgba(0,0,0,1.0); margin: 0px; line-height: auto;">about 2) you can find plenty of tutorials even on the blender.org website, and in my opinion it would not be very beneficial to have yet another standalone collection of tutorials and workflows. </div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px; color: rgba(0,0,0,1.0); margin: 0px; line-height: auto;"><br></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px; color: rgba(0,0,0,1.0); margin: 0px; line-height: auto;">Regards,</div> <div id="bloop_sign_1399452827207330816" class="bloop_sign"><div style="font-family:helvetica,arial;font-size:13px">Francesco<br><br></div></div> <br><p style="color:#000;">On 7 May 2014 at 02:57:00, Noel Stoutenburg (<a href="mailto:brasshat@core.com">brasshat@core.com</a>) wrote:</p> <blockquote type="cite" class="clean_bq"><span><div><div></div><div>Friends,
<br>
<br>1). I use a commercial software product to notate music, and one of the
<br>features of this product is a "visual index". This visual index is a
<br>couple of pages of faux sheet music with the elements of music that make
<br>up a high proportion of the elements of music notation that most
<br>musicians would use, and the names used for those elements in the
<br>software. It is extraordinarily useful, especially for novice users of
<br>the software: they can consult the visual index, and find out the name
<br>of an element that is causing issues, saving time, by allowing them to
<br>ask questions in names that others will understand. I submit that a
<br>comparable visual index should be included in Blender. a screen shot,
<br>perhaps of a quad view screen, that would provide the names of blender
<br>elements (vertex, line, plane, object, wireframe mode, edge loop, loop
<br>cut, &c, so that a novice can consult this index and ask a question that
<br>all of us can understand at once. It is very helpful, not only in
<br>manuals, but in forums, to ask the question using the right words, and
<br>this is a way to help new users find the right words.
<br>
<br>2) A "How do I...?" section, covering the most frequent tasks a Blender
<br>modeler would want to know. Examples of questions: How do I add ...?
<br>Separate answers for a single vertex, a mesh primitive, a loop cut, a
<br>lamp, a camera, &c. How do I group two objects together? How do I
<br>ungroup two objects?
<br>
<br>This should be fairly easy to compile: create a script to crawl through
<br>the Blender Artist forums, and note every thread starting posts which
<br>starts with the phrase "how do I".
<br>
<br>ns
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