I guess a lot of you have already visited the Gamedev forum. There each forum room has its own FAQ link, where the most frequent questions are placed. I’d suggest a similar thing for this forum. Let’s place a sticky FAQ post in each forum room, and everyone may contribute to it. Then the moderator will sort it out, and people won’t have to waste their time asking questions that have already been answered many times - they would first check the FAQ
There are (apparantly) new forums on the way for this site (moving to new software). Not sure whats happens with the posts so maybe not much point right now.
Point taken though, its a good idea.
Kev
i hope all the post on these forums are not lost, because they contain a wealth of information and solutions to problems!
Well, some of the best points I’ve saved, others I’ve bookmarked, and I have some rudimentary FAQ’s half-written.
Just getting JGF uploads tuned, and LWJGL 16k started, then will upload / setup pages for downloading source code and ALSO make the FAQ’s page live.
At which point, you’ll be able to freely add to each FAQ if there’s any missing ;D
Let’s not forget that we have a wiki which can be as useful as we make it. (I know the interface to editing the wiki isn’t all that hot, but it’s there, and severely under utilized.)
I’ve looked at the Wiki but was disappointed when I saw how poor the Optimisation section was. Someone should at least add what we’ve discussed here a couple of days ago, about the try-catch block, packing bytes etc…
Edit: I don’t know how to create a new page in Wiki. Could someone create a page titled “Tips for optimizing your Java game”, and then everyone could add whatever he knows? Stuff like x =>> 1 is faster than x / 2 ;D
[quote]and then everyone could add whatever he knows?
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It won’t happen. I hate to say “I told you so” but back PW (pre wiki ;)) I was very sceptical that it would be worth having - I predicted (based on previous experience) that it would quikcly stagnate and die, with no-one bothering to edit it because there was too little there or becoming so randomly organized that it would be less effort to start again from scratch (!) than to try and make it vaguely usable by people looking for things.
to Scott…
Think thats more to do with the lack of firm knowledge actually floating round. Most things are “in my experience” or “when I tried this”. Either that or opinion based. Its all really useful stuff but not maybe things people want to commit to something as permenent as a Wiki.
Kev
[quote]Think thats more to do with the lack of firm knowledge actually floating round. Most things are “in my experience” or “when I tried this”. Either that or opinion based. Its all really useful stuff but not maybe things people want to commit to something as permenent as a Wiki.
Kev
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…yet this is what Wiki’s are supposed to be perfect for ???
In any case I would contribute my 2¢ if an Optimisation Tips page would be opened 
[quote]In any case I would contribute my 2¢ if an Optimisation Tips page would be opened
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If you have anything you think would be helpful, PM it to me here and I’ll include it in the near future.
[quote]It won’t happen. I hate to say “I told you so” but back PW (pre wiki ;)) I was very sceptical that it would be worth having - I predicted (based on previous experience) that it would quikcly stagnate and die, with no-one bothering to edit it because there was too little there or becoming so randomly organized that it would be less effort to start again from scratch (!) than to try and make it vaguely usable by people looking for things.
to Scott…
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Well then we only have ourselves to blame.
gcsaba2:
If you have a java.net login then you should be able to make the new page yourself. Read the instructions linked from the wiki pages.