<pounding two-fingered...>
DMSelena wrote...
Yes, I get it. If it's any help to you, I am an older woman by gamer community standards, and I've just been a little aggravated having to try to gather up all the documentation necessary to catch up with being gone for just a couple of years (so much has changed since Bioware released NWN into the wild, and the Vault engine is so slow), and then finding out that a lot of it is outdated on accounta how 64 bit systems change things, and many of the tuts were written before it became standard to use professional-grade software.
Whoa! *Breathe*, woman!
I had it a bit worse, in the same direction. I was involved (deeply involved) in the pre-release. Then I went away for a decade. Missed *everything*. Ack!
Now I'm back, but I'm living off grid and using a crippled Thinkpad R40 (mostly @ Starbucks). I can just *barely* run 3DS 2010. Forget anything newer :-P
Nowadays, I can do things proper-like with 3DSMax and Photoshop instead of a bazillion little kludge/workaround progs (don't misread that: I have nothing but love for those prog's creators!), but I still need to know the workflow and those insanely useful tips people learn as they go. That's the kind of thing a wiki is good for
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The nice part about the wiki is I can just turn it on and let the open-source collaboration self-organize (don't laugh; it's possible!).
But... I *like* to laugh!
Preaching to the choir.
But I did think of the NWN Wiki even as I was making the original post. It's a perfectly servicable wiki, and yet it isn't being updated with the deep-fu geekery that appears here, so it's quite possible that a second wiki wouldn't fare any differently.
"Deep-fu geekery"? Bwahahahahaha. Love it. =)
OTOH, The Krit is pretty active on it, though I think he concentrates on scripting.
But I guess I'm holding out a somewhat pathetic hope that people like you and OldTimeRadio, et al, will feel kindly enough to copy-pasta what you have into an article there and not think, "Eh, let them use the Google. I have models to make." In addition to being pathetic, it's also not a terribly reasonable hope, I realize, because I tend to think that very thing when I consider making video tuts.
Whoa, again, Dear. I am *not* in the same tutorial league as OTR or Bannor Bloodfist. <word> I mostly just point people at people <or their posts> and hope *synergy* happens.
In this forum, if I have a question, I *may* google it. But I *will* post it. Everyone here is both helpful and incredibly generous. And most are pretty savvy =)
That said, I agree with you wholeheartedly that putting it all together would be of immense benefit.
Something else I would really like to see is the CC guide updated with all the tutorial goodness I've had to root out from all over creation :-/
And the word Docs that TSL is putting together with visual references to assets.
And the references TAD & Estelindis did on palettes.
<stop, boss. breathe. let it go> Heh.
So, anyway, I'm just going to stop typing now before I end up talking about dragons or something.
<shhhh. don't mention the 'd' word around rolo. he get's... *really* crochety>
<...on his crippled, old laptop>
Modifié par Rolo Kipp, 27 novembre 2011 - 06:18 .