I’d like to propose two new boards to make the forum more readable.
1 - Plugins and Unity Tools
2 - Models and Content
Both are stuff that is posted now and then, often in Showcases, sometimes elsewhere, and whenever you are looking for it, you have to use the search. Now with the Summer of Code, for example, we will get still more content that’s of interest to people down the road, with future questions and improvements.
I’m not impartial, I’ve got my own tool, but I’m also often in the position of looking for models or content that was announced (the tree packs, or the medieval houses are still on my buy list).
This would also help cleaning up the Showcases again, which has become a general “whatever you’ve done with Unity” board.
Perhaps it would be OK to have one forum for both plugins and artwork. I’m not sure that there are enough examples of each to need two new forum boards. There is also the Unify wiki which also houses a lot of resources.
Yes, the wiki is a good place to store things once they’re done. But during development, to gather feedback, or present a work-in-progress, the forum is the better place.
I reckon if there is a thread, people will want to post to there. If you create 2, you might just nudge people into releasing more stuff into the community by wanting to post in both threads…
What about the poor overcrowded Scripting forum? Maybe it would be a good idea to somehow divide that one up as well to keep everyone from being overwhelmed with the sheer volume of threads there. Maybe divide it up into forums for people to get help with scripts that actually exist (meaning they attached a .unitypackage or have code in their post), one for “how do I do this:”, and one for “look at this code I wrote”. Anyone here agree with me?
As for the Showcase forum, I think we need one for WIP/show off your doodles and one for “Hey, check out my finished game!”. That way, people with finished stuff don’t compete with stuff that might never go anywhere (remember my FPS thread? the one that went nowhere? Yeah, stuff like that.)
What about the Collaboration forum? Like, dividing it up so there’s space for artists/coders/developers looking for work, people looking for artists/coders/developers, and people selling unity relevant stuff (models, textures, sounds, projects, code, etc.).
We need a 3D games engine that can develop cool content for the web. Then they need to build a virtual room filled with floating cubes. You can rotate the room and pick a floating cube at will. Each cube will bring up a 3D page containing various headings. Each heading would pop up a new window containing the text contained within that heading as well as a number of small rotating icons beside it that allows you to flip the text over and write a reply to it and flip it back over again wen you are done… That way we will have an empty room that won’t intimidate or overwhelm anyone and we can have 50 boards that look so pretty that nobody will care that there are so many…
But first we need to find a decent enough online ready 3D engine…
I’d love to see a graphics forum that isn’t just for posting up images and animations, but also works as a graphics support forum. Where artists could help each other with art and technical art related challenges.
Not in my book, and I’m running 10 or so wiki sites. For one, wikis are exceptionally awful at threading. Replying, even quoting, is all manual work. It is very, very hard to have a meaningful discussion on a wiki page.
Well… we’re not really operating on a democratic basis. We’re always happy to see discussion about things and the forum votes give some indication of support. However, we don’t promise to implement anything purely on the strength that people ask for it and definitely not on any particular timeframe.
Hehe. Sorry, I wasn’t meaning to say “everyone voted for it, now get working you lazy bastards”.
Just wanted to post a friendly reminder. And if the answer is “not gonna happen” or “not at this time”, I’ll be happy to know it. Just please do let us know.