Hi,
I also very much appreciate the learning content already available for stingray. However, I think there is much more needed, not only tutorials, to attract more users or make it easier to start out for new people. Let me explain what I think is necessary:
1. Organize the forums. Right now, the stingray forums are a chaos. Please consider to add subforums, maybe like this:
General
Content Creation
Lua Scripting
Flow
Scaleform
HumanIK
WWise/Sound
Navigation
user created tutorials
Requests
2. Create a tutorial section on stingrays main website. From there,make all current video tutorials available
3. Documentation: Create more detailed documentation of all the engine's parts. Maybe include small tutorials. As an example, look at UE4s docs.
4. Create more tutorials. They should be small and more or less self contained. maybe a step by step creation of a small game. the digital tutors tutorial series I really liked, but it seems like not finished. Also please always include all the files used in a tutorial. For example, the terrain tutorial is good, but there are no downloadable assets for it. Also consider doing not only video tutorials, but also text based tutorials.
The following topics should be covered by tutorials:
- how to create a day/night cycle in LUA or flow
- how to save/load a game
- how to create an ingame GUI. For example take the navigation video tut and create a gui with a button that telsl the unit to move along the computed path (instead of starting the move when the level is loaded as in the current tutorial)
- in general more LUA
- how to create an inventory
- how to create effects like snow/rain
- I am sure other users have quite a few ideas as well 😉
5. Be more active on the blog. Ideally, make a blog post every week where you explain what's coming to stingray/maya lt. Also some kind of roadmap would be very cool. Others engines do this as well.
6. Marketplace: Put some more samples or starter kits on the marketplace. Make sure they are always up to date.
I listed a lot now I know. I really like stingray, and I want it to succeed and have a bigger userbase. I think it is easier than maybe UE4, but also very powerful. The problem is just that I feel one really has to search for information or tutorials in order to achive simple things, or there are examples missing on how to do something "the stingray way". I really hope some of these things could be considered. I am learning maya lt now mostly until there is more for stingray.
Just my two cents 😉
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