diff --git a/docs/about/img/about_chain.gif b/docs/about/img/about_chain.gif new file mode 100644 index 0000000..51c2f0e Binary files /dev/null and b/docs/about/img/about_chain.gif differ diff --git a/docs/about/introduction.rst b/docs/about/introduction.rst index 3077362..c8a66a1 100644 --- a/docs/about/introduction.rst +++ b/docs/about/introduction.rst @@ -5,6 +5,11 @@ Introduction A film is an idea carved along the whole production process by many different peoples. A traditional animation pipeline involve a linear succession of tasks. From storyboard to compositing by passing upon different step, its fundamental work flow is similar to an industrial assembly line. Since each step is almost a department, its common that one person on department B doesn't know what another person did on a previous step in a department A. This lack of visibility/communication could be a source of problems which could produce a bad impact on the final production result. +.. figure:: img/about_chain.gif + :align: center + + The linear workflow problems + Nowadays it's a known fact that real-time rendering technologies allows to speedup traditional linear production by reducing drastically the iteration time across different steps. All majors industrial CG solutions are moving toward real-time horizons to bring innovative interactive workflows. But this is a microscopic, per-task/solution vision of real-time rendering benefits for the animation production. What if we step-back, get a macroscopic picture of an animation movie pipeline and ask ourself how real-time could change our global workflow ? Could-it bring better ways of working together by giving more visibility between departments during the whole production ? The multi-user addon is an attempt to experiment real-time parallelism between different production stage. By replicating blender data blocks over the networks, it allows different artists to collaborate on a same scene in real-time. diff --git a/docs/getting_started/install.rst b/docs/getting_started/install.rst index bf9bd16..a6690dc 100644 --- a/docs/getting_started/install.rst +++ b/docs/getting_started/install.rst @@ -6,4 +6,7 @@ Installation 1. Download latest `release `_ or `develop (unstable !) `_ build. 2. Run blender as administrator (to allow python dependencies auto-installation). -3. Install **multi-user.zip** from your addon preferences. \ No newline at end of file +3. Install **multi-user.zip** from your addon preferences. + +Once the addon is succesfully installed, I strongly recommend you to follow the :ref:`quickstart` +tutorial. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/docs/getting_started/quickstart.rst b/docs/getting_started/quickstart.rst index 27a770c..243da2e 100644 --- a/docs/getting_started/quickstart.rst +++ b/docs/getting_started/quickstart.rst @@ -1,3 +1,5 @@ +.. _quickstart: + =========== Quick start ===========