FUSE help files/simplification

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Inspired by the request from @texone at the meetup last for suggestions for simplifications and or comments, I think having a thread with a discussion of what is desirable for the future of FUSE.

First, I am very impressed with FUSE and I can see that it will be a really powerful tool in my toolbox, once I get properly into it
And yes, there are courses at node institute, but I have taught myself everything I know about vvvv with the help from the community. FUSE is less accessible than the rest of gamma.

As a FUSE beginner, I find it difficult to find info about how to do simple stuff.

I find the examples very impressive, but most of them are doing fancy stuff with random generators.

The following is not asking for help on the matters, although it would be nice, but more to have a list for inspiration.

I have been digging into particles lately, so most are about particles

Things I have been and is struggling with are:

  • Paths and particles, how to make a particle follow a path, bonus for constant speed. preferably hundreds of thousand particles. But make the example clear with just a few paths and particles
  • Using textures, both for sampling and storing eg. positions.
  • Explanation of terms. What is
    • HDE
    • FBM
    • SDF (although that is quite famous)
    • Probably more
      Also in general, the help patches have very little text to explain what is going on.

All this has to be taken with the fact that I have failed getting the github repo version to work.

Regardless of all the above, I am continuing my self leaning of FUSE.

Sune

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I know it is a lot of work to make help patches, but i think it will be super helpful for broader adoption.
Just so I clarify that I know that I am asking for a lot.

Sune

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I think what FUSE lacks more than anything else is a large user base. Despite the steep learning curve, at some point there is a “click” and you suddenly get it. And there needs to be a critical mass of people who ‘get it’ so that new tools start to appear. It needs more examples, more snippets.

I think it would be good practice to organise raids to create examples of such libraries. It should be a regular event, a competition or something. For that, the help system must be greatly improved and the search must be made great again (like vvvv beta). The amount of help patches on fuse is great. But at some point there are so many of them that I miss new features and forget how to find old ones.

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