[Bf-docboard] Blender Proceedings

[Willie Pierce]

I'll be honest I would like to see very basic tutorials for blender ie how to make a 6 sided dice, how to make a cup, How to make a realistic pool cue ball.  (modeling and texturing.)

Going from that a person could then give me a video of how to animate the dice moving around in the cup as the cups shaken, then a video about dropping the dice on a plane and it realistically bouncing.  Or the cue ball on a table with 14 other balls the one cue ball Impacts another and they ricochet around on The plane.   

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Willie Pierce
Pls excuse spelling errors Sent from my iPhone 


On Nov 12, 2010, at 4:23 AM, mindrones <mindrones at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> You can already start workin on wiki
> http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Meta:Guides/Writer_Guide#Editing_workflow
> 
> - if you plan a chapter rewrite, post a proposal first to avoid wasting 
> your time
> - if it's a new page, use your user page or sandbox and ask for review 
> in the channel or here
> - if it's a port of a 2.4 page to 2.5 (without changing much, just 
> screenshots and phrases) just do it, the 2.5 section will go under 
> review anyway later
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On 11/12/2010 10:56 AM, Raindrops From Sky wrote:
> 
>> In my post, I emphasized "visible", because we do not get to see any
>> periodic updates on what's happening (such updates should reach the
>> public through *docboard *and *Blender website*; but I don't see any
>> updates there.).
> 
> have a better look at this mailing list archives
> http://lists.blender.org/pipermail/bf-docboard/
> and you'll find mails about what's going on and about things being done, 
> I'm pretty sure :)
> 
> 
>> While we have the weekly Developers' MoM, we don't have a similar
>> updates for documentation. Then how will the potential documenters know
>> what's going on and how they will get a cue to rush for a documentation
>> sprint?
> 
> So I don't agree about people not communicating well.
> When you will start documenting you'll see why a weekly doc meeting is 
> not happening: documentation has times far slower than coding IMO.
> 
> 
>> Just five people for the entire wiki project, who are unable to spare
>> any time?
>> What about re-enlisting those past volunteers who prepared the wiki for
>> 2.4x?
> 
> Take Roger, he did a beautiful work on 2.4 docs, but if he is not here 
> doing 2.5 docs that means he hasn't time, you can't force people doing work.
> 
> 
>> I do appreciate your hard work in the face of difficulties.
>> But I was not focusing on those admin aspects at all.
> 
> but still, you propose to install extensions and change structure   and 
> our templates rely on that structure to exist to work well. And also you 
> talk about managing and leadership. These is all admin stuff IMO.
> 
> 
> 
>> I am focusing on the content-writing, uploading screenshots, preparing
>> charts to explain certain concept, etc.; because that is how I can
>> contribute here.
> 
> The sandbox is there for that very reason :)
> 
> 
> 
>> BTW Andrew has already posted his video and the slides at BlenderGuru site.
> 
> I was referring to the documentation roundtable:
> 
> http://download.blender.org/documentation/bc2010/blender_documentation_roundtable.pdf
> 
> 
> 
> Regards,
> Luca
> 
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