Hey guys,
I felt that splitting the topic was necessary before I replied. I guess I was asking for trouble by complaining about that before replying to the subject itself. Sorry about that.
At the moment our documentation is the Planetside Software Wiki:
https://planetside.co.uk/wiki/We are making improvements month by month, year by year. Over the last couple of years we've made hundreds of edits, cleaned up or finished dozens (maybe hundreds?) of old pages, added a substantial amount of new information. We've worked with a professional writer to finish some of these documents, reorganize a lot of the older material and write new user guides. Right now we are working with Terragen user and VFX artist Kevin Kipper (@RedMaw). He is writing new user guides which will be linked into the Wiki very soon. And we continue to edit and add to the existing content on a semi-regular basis. There is a ton of material in there and we do what we can with time and money that we have, while balancing that with providing support, maintenance, bug fixing and developing new features on the software itself.
So far the Wiki has:
User Guides (16). These range from Getting Started to more Advanced topics. More are being written right now.
Node Reference. For Function Nodes I believe this is mostly complete. When you find unfinished entries, please let us know. I know that there are still gaps in many of the entries that are not function nodes, but again, please call out specific pages where you wish the information was complete.
References for: Input Settings, Menus, Windows, Animation, Import/Export, Global Illumination, Render Layers/Render ELements, Preferences, Command Line.
There's a lot of material in there, but we know it's not finished. I think it would help us to hear from you which parts of the documentation are most important for us to finish first, so please point us to specific things you want to see first.
So let's get down to figuring out what needs to be done next, and we'll focus on those things.