Hi all, One of the biggest issues that Crystal Space has in its acceptance as a good 3D engine is the (apparent) lack of tutorials, documentation, demos, and so on. OGRE gets a lot more good reviews and that's mostly because it is a lot better in these areas. I would like to get rid of that image so I think we need to work a bit more on this. I will cover all these points in detail right now.
-= Demos =- OGRE has a lot more demos and they also look nicer out of the box. The main reason is not necesarily that OGRE is better but more that they appear to have better artists and were able to better bring it together. Currently work is on the way for two Crystal Space demos: - Crystal Core is the major CS demo game project but this is still a long-term project so I don't expect this to become a major demo in the first few months. - A new cartoon like level+physics demo is in the making right now (Erroroman). I hope this will be a nice addition at least. I would also like to see a replacement for flarge. 'flarge' is a very nice testing level as it demonstrates a lot of the features that are in CS. So in that respect it is a very useful level for the developers to see if some CS feature has been broken or not. However it is not a very good default level to start walktest with as it really looks like crap :-) So we need a new default level that concentrates on being beautiful. -= Tutorials =- There are already several tutorials. Most of them are made by me. I think we need more user contributed tutorials but more importantly, we need a central place to put all these tutorials so that people can find them more easily. Perhaps the community site is a good place for that? Another solution would be to put more tutorials in the main documentation. Also the tutorials that we have don't go that far in functionality. The tutorials in the basic documentation would also need to be a bit more advanced and show more features of CS. -= Wiki =- The Crystal Space site is a wiki. People tell me the OGRE wiki is very active and updated a lot by the user community. I wonder why this is not happening with the Crystal Space wiki? Do people actually know they can edit pages (as long as you are registered)? I would really like to see the wiki being used by YOU (the community). That is the easiest place for people to contribute to the documentation. Don't be afraid to make modifications there. Also don't be afraid to make structural changes or additions either. -= What I want from you =- 1. Who can make a VERY nice level for CS (preferably with Blender)? The level should be beautiful but don't overdo the textures as the textures would have to be put in CVS so don't use megabytes of texture data. 2. Who can make nice tutorials for CS and CEL? The format doesn't matter. As soon as a tutorial is made we can easily convert it to TexInfo (if it is going to be fitted in the main manual) or to whatever is needed. You can even make it directly in the wiki if you want. 3. Edit the wiki! Please do. It is there for you to use (and also for us of course :-) Greetings, -- Project Manager of Crystal Space (http://www.crystalspace3d.org) and CEL (http://cel.crystalspace3d.org) Support Crystal Space. Donate at https://sourceforge.net/donate/index.php?group_id=649 ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid3432&bid#0486&dat1642 _______________________________________________ Crystal-main mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/crystal-main Unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
