An Help manual for Sketchyphysics
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Editing my last post in the SP FAQ I ralized that an Help manual can't be placed in a forum. Here we can get answers to our doubts, but if we want to make an organised handbook,is better to create a blog or wiki. I suggest to make an official manual as a wiki. For official I mean complete, simple and up-to-date. I am not trying to create another forum or to force the developers to work on it - I am simply trying to make SP easier and open to all.
Pros: New users know where they can get information. No multiple posts about the same things. Less confusion.
Cons: Work to do, obviously. Some good manual projects will became meaningless, but they can be integrated.
What do you think about this idea? -
It's a good idea, but Chris is very occupied with the actual making of SP; that's why there isn't one already. This'd basically be up to us.
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@wacov said:
It's a good idea, but Chris is very occupied with the actual making of SP; that's why there isn't one already. This'd basically be up to us.
Well, I intended exactly this: If enough people support this idea, I will start to work on it, together with all the users who want to help and without concerning Chris.
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Well, if you lead, I'll follow. I don't know how to set up a wiki, but I can write about SP fine...
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Count me in as well.
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I should be a ton of help with the "tricks" of modeling well. I've had about a years worth of experience...Count me in!
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I would. I might. But I'm lazy.
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I'll help if i can. I would probably learn a lot if you would start something since I'm somewhat a newbie. Especially sp3 rc1.
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The Wiki could be started off with extracts from the FAQ as it stands now; alot of that is written tutorial-style.
I'm alright with script, and I've got a pretty good understanding of making vehicles, optimizing models for SP and that kind of thing. I can remember quite a few of the common glitches and how to get around them... the more technical stuff is probably what I can help most with.
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OK so the it's official. I created the wiki. I called it "SketchyPhysicWiki" to make simple link the plug-in to the wiki. The URL will be http://sketchyphysics.wikia.com. I added this forum as base for the project- I don't think is wrong to place the link.
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Wait, have you made the Wiki, or are you about to? The link doesn't work, and I can't find it by searching.
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Any help needed, I could do something (translation into French for instance)
MALAISE
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The link isn't working yet. I will notice to you when my request will be approved by Wikia.
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Our SP manual is ready- almost empty. Being too little to became a "true" wiki, is now a sub-wiki in The Wikia Scratchpad. His URL is http://scratchpad.wikia.com/wiki/SketchyPhysics_manual.
I added one article, about joints, and some index. The rest will be developed in future. -
Awesome. I've copied across my (brief) descriptions of the versions, and added the download links for RC1. Also fixed a bit of english
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This is an awesome idea. I was never much good at documentation. Thanks everyone!
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Thats a nice Wiki. The editing system is much better than the one I use at work.
BTW Curbs did an awesome tutorial a while back. Its for 2.0 but it all still applies.
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I made two pages for the google-code wiki and if you want me to add them to this new one I will.
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Yeah, your pages look good; everyone should contribute whatever they can. I've started to write a couple of the pages, including links to various useful websites.
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I could make the first link (http://sketchyphysics.wikia.com) work. It means that we have a complete wiki for SP. So, add the new pages here. I am transferring the old pages to the new wiki. I am sorry if I made some trouble, but is better do it now than in the future.
P.S. In the new wiki we can show a SP LOGO. I don't know if there is already one. If not, is a good chance to start creating one.
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