HOWTOs

[Amos Wenger]

Even in France, programmers don't stop working !
31/08/2006 :

• Updated! Keyframe animation OBJ + Morph Node
• New! Keyframe animation MD2
• New! Enabling Shadows

You can write ones yourself !

[c_lilian]

a link please  ! 

Lilian

[Amos Wenger]

All the HOWTOs can be found on new xith's site (not yet transferred at xith.org) : http://magicspark.org.free.fr/xith, in Docs>HOWTOs, and then you have a list of the existing ones (currently there are only 3).
If you want to write one, please register, and give me your account name so I can grant you the permissions to do so.

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[arne]

Those HOWTOs are great

@bluesky: I think a link from the Docs-page itself to the HOWTOs would be a good thing, too (there's the getting started, the install man, ... but no link to the HOWTOs  )

[Amos Wenger]

Those HOWTOs are great

Many more to come.. They're not yet very clear, but at least "understable" (with some effort).

@bluesky: I think a link from the Docs-page itself to the HOWTOs would be a good thing, too (there's the getting started, the install man, ... but no link to the HOWTOs  )

Oh that's right.
Thanks for pointing that out.

[Amos Wenger]

Is it possible that a moderator make this thread sticky ? Thanks.

Okay, I found the most useful HOWTOs that are needed are :

• The Model loading HOWTO (covers ASE, OBJ, MD2, COLLADA)
• The Picking HOWTO (Arne's new picking method)

[arne]

I could do that picking HOWTO...but first I'll have to know what you've put in the cvs...(see other thread)

[William Denniss]

Is it possible that a moderator make this thread sticky ? Thanks.

Done.

[Amos Wenger]

I could do that picking HOWTO...but first I'll have to know what you've put in the cvs...(see other thread)

Please do. I answered in the other post it was in org.xith3d.picking (toolkit).

Is it possible that a moderator make this thread sticky ? Thanks.

Done.

Thank you.

[arkdm]

I think model loading Howto's would be great. Especially for newbies like myself! Unfortunately the link isn't working: http://www.xith.org/docs/howtos/ comes up with an error?

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[arkdm]

It actually looks as though the link on the left takes me to the right page: http://xith.org/howtos.

[Amos Wenger]

I think model loading Howto's would be great. Especially for newbies like myself! Unfortunately the link isn't working: http://www.xith.org/docs/howtos/ comes up with an error?

Yeah in fact OBJ/MD2 animation HOWTOs tells you how to load OBJ and MD2 models. So it's alright I think and COLLADA will have a tutorial when it's released with Xith 0.8 (Croft, will you write the HOWTO or may I do it myself ?)

I should mention we are in the way of moving them to the GSG (Getting Started Guide) because it's more friendly to read (HTML & pretty PDF format), it's accessible via CVS, and it provides a way of learning Xith quickly.

[croft]

Yeah in fact OBJ/MD2 animation HOWTOs tells you how to load OBJ and MD2 models. So it's alright I think and COLLADA will have a tutorial when it's released with Xith 0.8 (Croft, will you write the HOWTO or may I do it myself ?)

I have sort of already written one.  You might want to link to this page:
http://earth.whoola.com:8080/javadoc/xith-tk/org/xith3d/loaders/dae/whoola/package-summary.html#package_description

[Amos Wenger]

Yeah in fact OBJ/MD2 animation HOWTOs tells you how to load OBJ and MD2 models. So it's alright I think and COLLADA will have a tutorial when it's released with Xith 0.8 (Croft, will you write the HOWTO or may I do it myself ?)

I have sort of already written one.  You might want to link to this page:
http://earth.whoola.com:8080/javadoc/xith-tk/org/xith3d/loaders/dae/whoola/package-summary.html#package_description

Ah ok.

[Amos Wenger]

I don't know if these HOWTOs will be maintained, maybe I'll include them in a documentation project I'm actually writing.

I'm sorry for the delay but as Qudus is doing great work I want to include it in my book.

Just a little poll : do you think it's a good idea to release an Edition of the Guide I'm writing for each Xith3D release ? So it's always up-to-date and includes latest features, and so on.. But releases are a bit delayed (time to write the doc).

[Marvin Fröhlich]

Just a little poll : do you think it's a good idea to release an Edition of the Guide I'm writing for each Xith3D release ? So it's always up-to-date and includes latest features, and so on.. But releases are a bit delayed (time to write the doc).

If the releases are displayed on the website next to their releasedate and the Xith version it is based on, I think is fine. So nobody needs to take more time than he has or wants to spend. And one can ever see, if the document is resent.

[arne]

The more documentation - the better

[Amos Wenger]

Just a little poll : do you think it's a good idea to release an Edition of the Guide I'm writing for each Xith3D release ? So it's always up-to-date and includes latest features, and so on.. But releases are a bit delayed (time to write the doc).

If the releases are displayed on the website next to their releasedate and the Xith version it is based on, I think is fine. So nobody needs to take more time than he has or wants to spend. And one can ever see, if the document is resent.

OK, although I think I can take time to keep the guide up-to-date for now (as for the future everything can happens so..)

The more documentation - the better

Sure