help wanted to make the pixlart tutorials part of the CGWiki

[Mu]

I transferred the hot-rodding tutorial into the Painter tutorial section of the wiki.

Find the article here: http://wiki.cgsociety.org/index.php/Hot-Rodding_your_brushes

If you go to the main page of the wiki and click tutorials you will find the Painter section at the end.

If you want to add one of the tuts, just chose edit article from the tab on top of the page, copy the hot-rodding tutorial link (with its special wiki double bracket syntax) and edit the name of the link to fit the name of the tutorial you want to add.

When you are done, hit save (previewing is a good idea, though...:D ).

Now, when you click the link on the tutorials page, the wiki will give you the chance to create that page as it realizes that it does not yet exist.

[Cris-Palomino]

Mu, I'm willing to help with this endeavor, but how do we create a new page and not edit the one you've already made? That was a bit unclear to me.

Cris

[Mu]

Yaaay!

:D

Hi Cris,

That was a bit unclear to me.

yea, ahem... I was a bit lazy with instructions, lol...:D

A wiki has a special functionality to allow for cross-references that point to non-existing articles. An author of any article or page can make a reference to a non-existing page, and anyone who clicks on that link will be directed to a text input area and given the chance to actually create the missing page.

Therefore, the convenient first step goes like this:

- open the tutorial here in the Painter forum you want to transfer in a separate window/tab of your browser for later quick access

- then you go to the tutorials section of the CGWiki: http://wiki.cgsociety.org/index.php/Portal:Tutorials

- on the top of the page you find tabs with links (Portal, Discussion, Edit...a.s.o.)

- you hit the edit link

- now you can edit the whole page

- the Painter tutorials section is at the bottom of the page and will look like this in wiki syntax (which you can only see when in edit mode):


==Corel® Painter™==
*[[Hot-Rodding your brushes]]


- you simply copy the line with the name of the existing tutorial and paste it again below. Then you enter the name of the tutorial you are about to create, e.g.:


==Corel® Painter™==
*[[Hot-Rodding your brushes]]
*[[Creating a smeary Oil Brush]]


- This will make the wiki system create a link to the tutorial, even though it does not exist.

- try the preview button. Does everything look like you wanted it to look?

- hit save

- now, when you click the normal link to the non-existing tutorial, the wiki will give you the chance to create that page.

- copy the text of the original tutorial from the separate window/tab and paste it into the textarea of the wiki page.

- now, in order to structure the tutorial and make the wiki system automatically create a nice table of contents you need to tell the wiki system wether there are any headlines in the text. In John's tutorials there often are.
These headlines you embed in equals signs like this:


= Hot-Rodding Brushes in Corel® Painter™ (original author: John Derry aka pixlart)=


this will make the embedded text a headline of level 1.

you can also embed text so it will become a headline of level 2, like this:

== The Brush Dab Continental Divide ==

the number of equals signs determines the level of the headline.

- when you are done, hit preview.

- you should have a nice table of contents, automatically created by the wiki system.

- everything ok, so far? Hit save.

- now, let's transfer the image. On the left side of the wiki pages there is a menu with the toolbox section. There you find a link that says upload file. We will use that to add the nice charts which summarize John's tutorials.

- first of all right-click the image in the original tut and save it to disk temporarily.

- then use the upload file link of the toolbox. Use the browse button to tell the wiki system which file you want to upload from your HD and make a short note in summary what this image is for (very shortly). The destination filename is inserted automatically. That name you copy!

- when the file is uploaded to the wiki system you can embed that image to any article, including the one we are just creating.

- find the newly created article of ours (if you had not kept it open in a separate window/tab) and hit edit again.

- place the cursor at the bottom of the page and press the image button at the top of the textarea input. WikiCode is inserted automatically at the cursor position. You just replace the text Example.jpg with the destination filename you copied in the upload process.

If this button should not appear (maybe due to client configuration) then you could always insert the text for image embedding yourself like this:

[[Image:Hotrodchart0ug.jpg]]

...where you would replace the text Hotrodchart0ug.jpg with the destination filename you copied in the upload process.

- I added a level 2 headline over the image to make it part of the TOC. Just a suggestion...:)

So, I am glad if we find people who join in. Don't feel intimidated by this yardlong list of instructions. It is fairly easy once you grasped the concept.

Tell me, in case you need help or anything.

:)

[Cris-Palomino]

Thanks, Mu. I've got a hectic weekend, but I'll put up some pages early next week.

I have a few things making me hop right now...you know how that goes. ;)

Cris

[crazytalk]

I got a bunch in this weekend from the thread you posted hopefully I can get a few more in this week.

[Mu]

I was gone for a short holiday and am back just today, so I take a quick look at the wiki and

WOW!

:eek:

whosoever helped to do this, I am amazed to see so many tutorials in there for the Painter section. Great work, folks!

:)

[Cris-Palomino]

Wow. Crazytalk really got in there. I finally got time and saw what looked like all of them in the Wiki. I need to compare lists.

Great job, Crazytalk.

Cris

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