Documenting Builds & Areas
Basics:
- Documentation should be primarily done as lists but feel free to break format!
- Builds are player creations, Areas are clusters of builds; both are represented by "Shelves"
- Builds
- What to choose as a book: organized by closest spawn/area or in "One-offs" if it's a standalone build
- What to put on build page:
- World x, y, z; ex: "100, 200, 150"
- The area it is in; ex: "In 2010-2011 - Alpha Prospect"
- Who built it (could be many people); ex: "By folkhack"
- Transportation network info; ex: "Rail line to 2010-2011 Alpha Spawn"
- ...then the history!
- Tags
- Right hand sidebar tag icon
- Click on tag name to get a list of existing tags, or create new ones if needed
- Tags should be areas, eras, players - any taxonomy that makes sense to organize builds by
- Areas
- TODO: Need to figure out how to organize builds to areas... areas shelf or book
Linking to "Entities"
The wiki software we use calls pages that you can link to "entities" - ie: books or pages.
- Place your cursor where you want to add the link or select text that you would like to turn into a link
- Click the chain icon in the editor toolbar
- Click the up-arrow to the right of the URL field and search for the book or page you would like to link
- When selected it will fill in all of the fields for you (URL, etc)
Uploading Images:
- Use F1 to hide your UI if you're taking a screenshot!
- Use a reasonable landscape resolution - the upload limit is 10Mb but we'd like to cap images at 1-4Mb if possible
- Feel free to use shaders!
- Get creative =)
- Tips:
- Use freecam for good angles
- Use zoom to modify your FOV as you would with a camera lens: Tweakeroo zoom, Optifine zoom etc.
- Try unique shots; here's some ideas:
- Fully top-down
- Showing how a build blends into it's environment
- Composition, rule of 2/3rds, unique placement of subject