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Re-organize wiki to sort tutorials by tool.

Open henbagle opened this issue 1 year ago • 0 comments

The organization of the tutorial wiki is a little bit complicated for a new user. Some of the first tutorials you see in the list can be entirely irrelevant, such as package and coalesced file format. The tutorials per-tool are pretty basic, and then suddenly tutorials are split up by game instead of by tool or by modding task.

As the tools and the tutorials improve we should have more content that is not game specific (at the minimum, should vaguely mention the differences when doing something in a different game).

My concept is to give each LEX tool a sub-page on the wiki. This page will link to any tool-specific tutorials, but will also link to any other tutorials that primarily use that tool to accomplish it's tasks. This way, when looking at for example the Package Editor page, you will see a general tutorial for package editor and then a bunch of tutorials that show you how to use the tool in a specific context. We can also link to external video tutorials.

On the main wiki page, each tool could be represented as it's icon from within LEX. We can also link to this tool sub-page from within LEX itself to provide a handy method to see all tutorials for that tool.

Below the tool section, we can keep the list of misc tutorials, like the ones about file formats, or working with ISACT. We also can keep the existing list of tutorials that work with multiple tools, except maybe break them down by type of modding (mesh modding, level editing, cinematic modding, etc) instead of by game. Each tutorial internally will need to warn users of what game the tutorial was written for, and what changes they may find when working with the other games.

henbagle avatar Jul 24 '24 18:07 henbagle