[gameprogrammer] Re: Wiki?

for instance [continued spam hehe]...i was trying to get some flags waving
for something i was working on recently and remembered they had a tutorial
on that at nehe.

so i went there, got their technique working and realized "hey this flag
doesnt stick to a flag pole".  a simple modification to the code, adding a
division in a couple places made it so you can stick one side of the flag to
the flag pole to make it look more realistic.

thats a very simple code modification that im sure many people might not see
readily, but at the nehe tuts there's no way to really post that information
anywhere useful.

with a wiki im assuming at the bottom or something, i could have put a link
like "how to modify this code to make the flag stick to a flag pole!", that
people could look at if they were interested.

that would be very very cool (:

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Alan Wolfe" <atrix2@xxxxxxx>
To: <gameprogrammer@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, June 14, 2004 10:24 AM
Subject: [gameprogrammer] Re: Wiki?


> yeah, what i was thinking is this really would be something very
> revolutionary and new (surprisingly!).
>
> lots of people have put out tutorials on everything undert the sun.
>
> lots of people have done that and also made message boards for tutorials.
>
> these things are pretty good but not nearly as cool as a flexible, living,
> wiki document w/ all that knowledge there, with input from different
people
> on different techniques etc.
>
> i think that would really be something neat no one else has ever done
> before.
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Paul Smith" <googoodolls_uk@xxxxxxxxx>
> To: <gameprogrammer@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Saturday, June 12, 2004 2:32 AM
> Subject: [gameprogrammer] Re: Wiki?
>
>
> > --- Bob Pendleton <bob@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >
> > > I'm thinking about adding a wiki to gameprogrammer.com. I had a bbs
> > > there for a long time and nobody really used it. Does anyone think
> > > that
> > > having a game programming wiki would be a good thing?
> >
> > Yep :)
> > > What would you use it for?
> >
> > Writing articles about aspects of game programming and getting peer
> > review from them.  I'm convinced there's enough knowledge in this list
> > to write a pretty decent book, if everyone on it would actually
> > contribute their thoughts as articles, wit hthe wiki process
> > crystalizing them into a resource for the whole world.
> >
> > Or something :)
> >
> > I'm not sure if there's anyone on the list that would use them, but if
> > you start the wiki up I'll donate my PS2 Vector Unit tutorials series
> > as the first set of articles - it just might get the ball rolling.
> >
> > > Last but not least, which wiki software would you suggest? Right now
> > > I
> > > am leaning toward phpWiki. It seems to have a lot of support and I
> > > can
> > > install it with apt-get (always a big plus).
> >
> > I use the mediaWiki software, it's the same piece of software that
> > powers the big wikis like WikiPedia and WikiBooks.
> >
> > >
> > > Bob Pendleton
> > >
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