Posted: 07-05-10 11:17 pm
I've had a ton of requests over the years for a manual or some kind of online documentation for Synthesia.
My response has always been two things:
1. Things are changing so (relatively) rapidly that documentation would become out of date quickly.
2. I have a very limited amount of time to develop Synthesia as-is. Keeping documentation up to date with the evolution would be tough.
One way to solve those problems is to let you guys take care of it for me.
Would there be any interest in having something like a MediaWiki set up to describe how to use Synthesia? Not only could it contain the usual "this is what you do on this screen and how it works" type of things, but there would easily be room for beginner walk-through type material, and even advanced how-to stuff like hooking it up to VSTs and whatnot.
It would be a nice way to move the "known" stuff out of the forums into a nice packaged place. It would also be a nice user-friendly place I could point new players.
Assuming MediaWiki specifically, I think I found a little add-on that would let us keep using our forum credentials too, just like the voting list. I am going to try and keep that trend going as long as I can. For example, all of the online stuff built into the game will use your username/password from this forum.
My response has always been two things:
1. Things are changing so (relatively) rapidly that documentation would become out of date quickly.
2. I have a very limited amount of time to develop Synthesia as-is. Keeping documentation up to date with the evolution would be tough.
One way to solve those problems is to let you guys take care of it for me.
Would there be any interest in having something like a MediaWiki set up to describe how to use Synthesia? Not only could it contain the usual "this is what you do on this screen and how it works" type of things, but there would easily be room for beginner walk-through type material, and even advanced how-to stuff like hooking it up to VSTs and whatnot.
It would be a nice way to move the "known" stuff out of the forums into a nice packaged place. It would also be a nice user-friendly place I could point new players.
Assuming MediaWiki specifically, I think I found a little add-on that would let us keep using our forum credentials too, just like the voting list. I am going to try and keep that trend going as long as I can. For example, all of the online stuff built into the game will use your username/password from this forum.