03-29-2015, 11:56 AM
I used to use Wings3D a lot when I was a teen and this software got me into the world of 3d modeling, but I haven't used it all that much recently. I have come back to it after a few years after referring a friend to Wings as being an easy no BS approach to creating 3d models and since then I've found myself in the application fairly often.
I would like to donate some time to this...
I haven't seen many updated documentation materials or articles and I often feel like Wings3D is overlooked as a choice for 3d modeling, maybe it's due to the lack of newbie friendly "getting started" materials or perhaps people are just instantly referred to Blender nowadays with its animation support and flashy new GUI, I'd like to support Wings and help where I can...
I don't have an abundance of free time, but I would like to donate my free time to creating up-to-date documentation and tutorials on using Wings3D. I've made tutorials and posted them to friends and YouTube in the past that had some great feedback and I've been planning on starting a new YouTube channel geared towards creating 3d art and game development related topics. I've been wanting to get some video tutorials out for Wings which might help with this. Of course when features are updated the videos would require updating which isn't as complex as it sounds, you could make a simple note on the previous video that it is now defunct and link to the fresh overview of the feature, but as of right now I am more wanting to contribute in the form of written documentation, I think it would help a little more right now than a ton of videos that I wouldn't have the time to produce (currently)
I know there are a few materials floating around already for some form of documentation, but I would like to work up a full on set of documentation from the overview approach mentioned in this post to an actual "getting started" with a project based approach to showcase how you can utilize certain features in a real use case scenario.
I don't know if this is still required or if there are some other documentation files I just have yet to find as I know this post is quite old, but I would like to help with this if there is still any kind of need for it.
I would be happy to spend time updating the documentation I create based on feature additions and edits as frequently as I can which should hopefully allow the documentation I output to be kept as up to date as possible.
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Also I have never taken part in the wings community until now too... I have no idea how active these forums are or if anyone will see and reply to this anytime soon, but I will be sure to check back and I have the email notifications on.
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Kind Regards,
Patrick.
I would like to donate some time to this...
I haven't seen many updated documentation materials or articles and I often feel like Wings3D is overlooked as a choice for 3d modeling, maybe it's due to the lack of newbie friendly "getting started" materials or perhaps people are just instantly referred to Blender nowadays with its animation support and flashy new GUI, I'd like to support Wings and help where I can...
I don't have an abundance of free time, but I would like to donate my free time to creating up-to-date documentation and tutorials on using Wings3D. I've made tutorials and posted them to friends and YouTube in the past that had some great feedback and I've been planning on starting a new YouTube channel geared towards creating 3d art and game development related topics. I've been wanting to get some video tutorials out for Wings which might help with this. Of course when features are updated the videos would require updating which isn't as complex as it sounds, you could make a simple note on the previous video that it is now defunct and link to the fresh overview of the feature, but as of right now I am more wanting to contribute in the form of written documentation, I think it would help a little more right now than a ton of videos that I wouldn't have the time to produce (currently)
I know there are a few materials floating around already for some form of documentation, but I would like to work up a full on set of documentation from the overview approach mentioned in this post to an actual "getting started" with a project based approach to showcase how you can utilize certain features in a real use case scenario.
I don't know if this is still required or if there are some other documentation files I just have yet to find as I know this post is quite old, but I would like to help with this if there is still any kind of need for it.
I would be happy to spend time updating the documentation I create based on feature additions and edits as frequently as I can which should hopefully allow the documentation I output to be kept as up to date as possible.
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Also I have never taken part in the wings community until now too... I have no idea how active these forums are or if anyone will see and reply to this anytime soon, but I will be sure to check back and I have the email notifications on.
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Kind Regards,
Patrick.