Hi all

I've been modding in my own unique way, jabbing buttons and see what happens , I'm now ready to do somthing serious I have a few projects in mind I've been using the G.E.C.K main page and working through bits. What I really need is some sort of user manual. Preferably somthing I can make a hard copy from. It's just very irritating having to switch between pages and I honestly can't be bothered to get yet another monitor. Is there Anything out there?

I can't be the only one

Haven't you heard, man? Manuals are SO last century. Nowadays you have to intuitively grasp something using technopathic ESP.

Man, remember the great manuals for Fallout 1 and 2? An art form dead before its time, I tells ya. *sigh*

Well there is no manual, there is the wiki. A manuel would be well over 100 pages long and take like years to write. Miaximus has mentioned wanting to write one eventually, and I plan on possibly writing one for the NV geck when its released.

I argue with you on that point, I love writing manuals and have written 4 so far for the community and I am not alone - many modding peeps write tutorials. I don't think it is possible to "intuitively grasp" tools like the GECK, Fo3Edit, Blender, GIMP or NifSkope without reading or watching some tutorials IMHO. Sure we get stuff to work, but it takes 10 times longer than it needs to take, we make many mistakes and often don't get stuff exactly right. We certainly get more crashes and problems than we need to endure!

I do agree with the idea that WIKI's have become an invaluable tool for learning in the 21st century, and I find both tutorials and WIKI's extremely useful. Tutorials for getting off the ground, and WIKI's when needing specific details on certain functions or game aspects.

I will agree 100% that we don't have enough tutorial authors in the community, writing documentation requires a Special kind of insanity that the doctors have never been able to fully diagnose. It is also not a dead art form.

The GECK will get it's tutorial one day, I would have written it myself had I not gotten deeply engrossed in actually making a big mod, but as GunMaster said he may do one and/or another modder from the community. Someone may come in with the NV crowd that is good at tutorials as well. I am 100% committed to writing one some day.

Miax

Oh well.

Back to the post its on the monitors.
Thanks for the quick resposes guys