Hi,
Most of the articles have been written a long time ago with a specific user base/case in mind. If you expect to read something else in an article, there's usually a mismatch between your expectations and the intent of the writer(s). Does that make it a bad article? No. The livery editing article for example was never written to be a definitive guide on how to UV map an aircraft. If you expecting to find that kind of information there, you're guaranteed to be disappointed. You could argue whether that should be blamed on the article, the title, the place/kind of links to the article or maybe even the reader himself though...
hvengel wrote in Mon Aug 18, 2014 5:39 pm:documents work flows that are clearly not best practices (the bump map wiki article in an example of this)
Please correct the information if you find anything wrong. At the time it was written, it was considered to be a good work flow, but that may have changed nowadays. Just reading over such texts, noting they are wrong and then moving on won't get them fixed by magic. It's essential for a wiki that readers participate and help keeping information up to date and correct.
Right now we have basically no best practices documentation for aircraft devs (at least nothing that lays out a detailed work flow with specific tool recommendations and information on how to use each tool to implement the work flow).
That's a tough one. As with anything, there are dozens of routes to arrive at the same destination. For people familiar with Photoshop, it makes no sense to spend time mastering GIMP, just because a wiki article tells them that GIMP is to be used. Same for Blender/AC3D/SketchUp/3DSmax. That's probably the reason why you'll find that many articles are rather general, trying to suit as many different readers as possible.
Buckaroo wrote in Mon Aug 18, 2014 10:56 pm:It gets a brief mention at the bottom of the Flightgear YASim wiki article. My forum post promoting it in the Flight Dynamics Model section was not worth "sticky" status.
If you would've asked I would have pressed the button (just did). I don't ask myself the question "Should I stickify this?" with every post I read, so suggestions are always welcome. Self promotion is essential in our project and by no means selfish. Please add a link in whatever wiki article you consider relevant!
Cheers,
Gijs