<div dir="ltr"><div>We have two currently supported renderers (game engine is it's own thing imo, and not technically a renderer in the same context):<br><ul><li>Cycles</li><li>Blender Render</li></ul><p>Freestyle is not a renderer, rather a post-effect as I understand it (it works on top of either BI or Cycles renders).</p><p>Currently we have `Materials`, `Textures`, `Lighting` and `World` as their own sections - which made sense when BI was the only supported renderer. However now that Cycles is around, It'd make more sense to me to move the materials, textures, lighting and world sections into the folder for each renderer. So the structure would be:</p><ul><li>Rendering</li><ul><li>Blender Render<br></li><ul><li>Materials</li><li>Textures</li><li>Lighting</li><li>World<br></li></ul><li>Cycles<br></li><ul><li>Materials</li><li>Lighting</li><li>World<br></li><li>[no need for a textures folder for Cycles]<br></li></ul></ul></ul><p>One problem with that is that textures can be used for brushes and particles too - should we then add `Textures` folders under those categories as well? Or instead keep it as it is currently with `Textures` in the root, and cover all the applications (BI/Brushes/Particles...) there?</p><p>Alternatively, since Cycles is technically an external renderer, should we remove all Cycles docs from this manual, and instead have them documented elsewhere separately?</p><p>Cheers,<br>Greg<br></p></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 29 December 2014 at 16:16, Gaia <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:gaia.clary@machinimatrix.org" target="_blank">gaia.clary@machinimatrix.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<div><span>I have set up a "test page" on
our blog for trying how the manual structure could be improved:
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<a href="http://blog.machinimatrix.org/blender/manual/" target="_blank">http://blog.machinim<u></u>atrix.org/blender/<u></u>manual/</a><br>
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The accordeon menu that is displayed on the top left side of the
page is hand made. And of course the blender documents are from
the official document server, so they do not reflect the structure
of the accordeon menu.<br>
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If you like you also can post a comment at the bottom of the page.
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Maybe this is a better way to play with possibilities and share
ideas :)<br>
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cheers,<br>
Gaia<div><div class="h5"><br>
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On 28.12.2014 23:37, Campbell Barton wrote:<br>
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<pre>On Mon, Dec 29, 2014 at 12:16 AM, Gaia <a href="mailto:gaia.clary@machinimatrix.org" target="_blank"><gaia.clary@machinimatrix.org></a> wrote:
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<pre>Hi;
That was a lot of feedback so far :)
Below is a revised version of a Blender Manual structure
based on all comments and further ideas:
Getting Started
Introduction
Installation
Basic usage
Interface
3D Interaction (not sure what to do with that)
Setting the Default Scene
Help System
Render Engines (brief)
Quick steps (to be defined)
User Preferences
The Data System
Game Engine
Extending Blender
Troubleshooting
Render Engines
Blender Internal
Cycles
Freestyle
Import/Export
FBX
Collada
Wavefront
...
Topics
Modeling
Materials
Textures
World
Physics
Modifiers (not sure if this is a topic or a reference article)
Animation
Rigging
2D
Rendering
Compositing
Motion Tracking (maybe this is NOT 2D)
Grease Pencil
Constraints (not sure if this is a topic or a reference article)
Reference (could be added later?)
3D View
Timeline
Graph Editor
Dope Sheet
NLA Editor
UV Image Editor
Video Sequence Editor
Movie Clip Editor
Text Editor
Node Editor
Logic Editor
Properties Editor
Outliner
User Preferences (link to User Pref in the Getting Started Section?)
Info Window
Glossary
-gaia-
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<pre>Some brief comments,
- Is "Topics" intended to be a Page on its own? Titles like
"Animation" seem like they should be top level links.
- having '2D' as a section seems a bit arbitrary... are UV's 2D?
Grease pencil can be 3D too..., think its an unnecessary category.
- Space-Type Reference,.. can be nice, but would be wary of people
adding too much content there,
they should be a quick reference of the space-type, but as details
about workflows should go in the manual.
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