Mel script faq organization

[admin]

hey guys: here is a recommended organization for a mel faq. Suggestions/changes?:

The basics
General
GUI
Expressions
File IO
Textures and Materials
Geometry Data
- Polygonal Meshes
- NURBS Surfaces
- NURBS Curves
- Other Scene Objects
Persistant Data

[joojaa]

Actualy there shoudl be one titled just DATA because the the passing to nodes is the same wether or not they are polygons or nurbs (or even tewaks/ blendhapes). This way we could amke a tutorial.

Theres no much isdea of differenting a polygon surface from a nurbs one if the overall way of doing it is the same.

MAybe it should be called nodal data!

Expressions should be in dynamics forum because they are not realy mel, and whan they are they shouldnt in general be.

[rob-bateman]

Agreed on expressions.

I thought about just geometry data, seperate sections for NURBS and poly specific stuff might be an idea though - things like how to generate lofts 'n' stuff like that might start to overflow a general geometry section.....

maybe

Geometry
- General (nodal data)
- NURBS
- Polygons
- Subdivs
- Scene Objects

But yeah, i'm not sure. I guess we know that the mel FAQ is going to deal with the language and common problems with it - so it's probably best getting those sections underway first, ie Trouble Shooting, language basics, and the good old script jobs et al (general).

The next problem though is what else should be covered. As with the paint FX mel scripts, that should really be with the paint FX FAQ. Should mel scripts that say directly affect rendering be in the rendering FAQ? texturing in the texturing faq and so on and so on?

[admin]

i've come to the conlusion that we will have lots of duplicate data. Im sure there will be things in the faq that come from the tips section and maybe tutorials expanded on faq questions, etc. But better to have it in more areas easily accessable then not being able to find it.

Paintfx has its own faq mostly because its just a monster of its own issues. Same as fur.

We have the ability to add subcategories now so we can always start off with basics then ive a section gets too heavy we can break it down into subs and moving the entries is just a click or two.

Will

[joojaa]

Can one faqentry be simutaneoulsy be on many faqs at once?

[admin]

not currently...