Talk:Wings 3D
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[edit] What's the connection between Blender and Wings 3D ?
David - What particular aspect of reading about Blender is going to help a Wings user (esp. a noob) better get to grips with using Wings?
Whilst it's acknowledged that Blender is a darned good app. (I know of quite a few Wings users that also use it) - I doubt that even they would suggest there's a lot of similarity with GUI / workflow etc.
Rather than being on the front page, I'd have thought this was better located in a more general 'Useful links' type of place - or apps to try / use for features that wings doesn't have eg Animation / rendering etc?
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(I realise you've cross-referenced these 2 apps - and I'd suggest the same comments are valid the other way round?)
btw - if this seems a negative comment, ie what not to have here, under 'Further reading' - I'd have thought pointers to material about aspects of modelling / edgeloops / techniques etc would be more appropriate - ie stuff that might answer queries / help someone getting to grips with what it's all about ...
If you want to rename that section "useful links", that's fine with me. (Or is there another one I overlooked?) As you know, the table of contents of a wikibooks links "deeper" to pages with more detail. But sometimes search engines send people to a page deep in the middle of a wikibook. Imagine that I stumble upon a page in the middle of the Wings 3D book and I think it's great. Do you think I would like to know about the existence of the rest of the book? Of course I would, so I find the link "up" to the table of contents useful.
I feel it is very important that every page link "up".
Some books have heavily nested content, so I have to go "up" a few times to get from a page, to a section summary, to the title page. I think it's useful to keep going "up", so I can find out not just about closely-related pages, but also closely related books. Is there any wikibook more closely related to this Wings 3D book than the Blender book? --DavidCary 21:03, 16 January 2006 (UTC)
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- 2 - What's the purpose of the link bringing the reader back to the page that they're reading the link on? (or at least the edit box for same)
You're talking about the [edit] link on the right side? It's a "feature" of the software used by wikibooks.org . It looks pretty silly on this page. It's more useful on really long pages like Wikibooks:Staff_lounge. Those links helps people add a comment to just the one section they are interested in, without having to scroll through the whole thing in the edit window, or worrying about accidentally messing up some other section. --DavidCary 21:03, 16 January 2006 (UTC)
