Just wanted to let you know I’ve updated the Getting Started Guide to match the 3.6 release.
I’ve also added a few new articles and updated some old ones. Specifically, I’ve added articles discussing Xbox One UWP deployment.
Recently, I started developing UWP apps on Xbox One, so I’ll have some additional articles to add in the future. Right now, I’m planning out some timing tests that I’m going to use to judge the Xbox one’s available resources (since UWP apps have limited access to the system). These tests will mostly be timing how long it takes to draw various sized textures and strings, so I can get an idea of what the limits are. I’m assuming Xbox One uses the DirectX API, right?
I also plan on adding some UI based articles that explain how I approach creating custom, animated UI for my games. I’ll also add an article discussing handling multiple gamepad input, for local multiplayer.
I’d really like if someone could throw together a Lidgren Networking tutorial. I’d be happy to handle arranging all the information and pictures to meet the design standards - I just don’t know much about networking. If any Mac friends want to make a tutorial about using Xamarin or their experiences with Monogame on Mac, I’d be happy to integrate those tutorials as well.
In the distant future, I’d like to somehow get this Getting Started Guide onto a web server, so people can just visit a page to view it. It’s kind of inconvenient to have it on the github, but it works for now. My dream is to see the guide added to the monogame.net > documentation > getting started section, which is still suspiciously barren - but I know you guys got your way of doing things and I respect that.
I’ll keep it updated for each release, and add to it bit by bit overtime.
Good job on the 3.6 release! I’m looking forward to Switch support!
Happy to be a small part of the community.
*I also updated the Wikipedia page to reflect the 3.6 release.
Take a look at GitHub pages @MrGrak. @harry-cpp mentioned that before. Free & easy hosting and quick to set up. I still think it would be great to get your guide into the official docs.
We would love to see that happen. Like I said before the next step would be converting your content to MD format and structure it to fit into our doc system.
Where does a Tutorial / Guide belong in the above ?
You have 3 seconds to pick.
is it news ?
is it a download ?
is it class or variable or method documentation ?
Is it a forum post to be lost in time ? Community might as well just be named forums.
Is it about? People rarely look at about.
Which is exactly were something like this would go if approved.
News Downloads Education Documentation Community About
alternatively something like Learn
News Downloads Learn Documentation Community About
Now play the game again what are we missing at the top right of the browser ?
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I think that’s pretty much what we need to pull in all these scattered tutorials and guides. Maybe a subsection within for specific how to examples. I think they would need to be dated and tagged with some extra info. So you could filter searches. As well as submitted and approved before being added but you could have more then one of the same. You might even just let them get added and have a like dislike button on each so as to filter by ratings.
From that link the Getting Started guide can be seen the way I intended, just using a browser.
Plus, it stays current with the github repo, so I don’t have to ftp the guide to a server.
@willmotil I see your solution, and agree that there’s room somewhere for this guide.
However, I’d just like the Monogame.net > Documentation > Getting Started page to link to the rawgit link above. Imagine that when you look at this page, there’s a link in the right hand section that says something like “An unofficial Getting Started Guide is available here: http://rawgit.com/MrGrak/Monogame-Getting-Started/master/index.html”.
It could replace the todo text “Add SubSection Links”, which makes the page seem like it’s never been updated. I don’t think an entire education section needs to be created, as the Tutorials section covers that pretty well - http://www.monogame.net/documentation/?page=Tutorials
@Tom What do you think about just adding a link to the Guide from the Getting Started page? It seems like the easiest solution, without having to convert the guide into the MD format. I’d really like to keep using the HTML approach to presenting the information, because it keeps things very organized, it’s visually engaging, and very easy to update and maintain. I’m not trying to be a pain here, I just think there’s merit to the approach I’ve taken.
While not fully understanding the MD approach [And it appears to be a lot of not needed work] the HTML bare bones approach makes sense as if you are using relative path links, this means the whole site can be downloaded and viewed practically anywhere, you could even look into creating a CHM binary document for those inclined… I am sure the MD approach has some benefits, however it feels a bit archaic so to say… I could be wrong and as stated I am not fully aware of the approach and just wanted to chime in my opinion on the use of Raw HTML…
I am keen to create my own documentation at some point too which will have a dedicated platform of its own as that is how I like to do these, and mine will be primarily focussed on the UWP aspect, the more [Tutorials] the merrier I say
I think it is possible to write a Html to MD converter using the HTML tags, no?
Look what I found:
There are others on the web… but I linked this one because it is on GitHub
Sorry, my brain has been on pause for the past two weeks, having a difficult time remembering some things… going through a tough patch, hopefully get through it and have a great game to show off what MonoGame can do! and enable me to financially support the project too!
FYI. Came across a new system called DocFx by Microsoft that we can maybe evaluate as a replacement to our current SharpDoc system. Still uses MD like it should… just changes the tools and workflow a bit maybe:
@MrGrak I saw your post on threading and just wanted to bump this since you’re active in the forum.
Would you let me translate this tutorial to markdown and integrate it into the official docs? We still don’t have a good official tutorial for a full game and this one would be perfect.
