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Keira Wells
Blender Sculptor
Join date: 16 Mar 2008
Posts: 2,371
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05-06-2009 22:48
When you buy a product that has commands, what's your favorite way to be told what they are?
What I mean is, do you prefer the object to say it in chat, or to be given an instruction notecard, or have one already from the product's box, or read the item description, etc. What is your preferred delivery method for instructional information?
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Ralektra Breda
Template Painter
Join date: 7 Apr 2008
Posts: 1,875
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05-06-2009 22:50
I like the notecard, I can open it and read as I try to do whatever it is I'm doing 
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Melita Magic
On my own terms.
Join date: 5 Jun 2008
Posts: 2,253
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05-06-2009 23:22
All of the above.
Hover text is best if it is something simple that needs done but is essential.
Followed by chat commands. Repeated if no action is taken or the action was too slow.
Backed up by a thorough note card written in layman's terms.
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Wulfric Chevalier
Give me a Fish!!!!
Join date: 22 Dec 2006
Posts: 947
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05-06-2009 23:47
If there are a lot of commands (more than about half a dozen) then there definitely needs to be an "Owner's Manual" in the form of a notecard. But at the same time, for a really complicated item, it's good if there is a quick reference version in chat, partly because it's easy to get confused between the different chat commands used by different objects.
So the ideal might be, for example, for a fairly complicated item, a notecard that lists 20 commands, with the relevant parameters, but by typing "/1help" the object lists the 7 or 8 most commonly used commands in chat.
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Ephraim Kappler
Reprobate
Join date: 9 Jul 2007
Posts: 1,946
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05-07-2009 01:39
I have a severe RFM-related learning disability which leads me to prefer well-designed items that dispense with instructions in favour of intuitive, easy-to-use controls. I also do my best to avoid anything that involves typing chat commands: it makes me cringe when folks mess these up in open chat.
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Ian Nider
Seeds
Join date: 20 Mar 2009
Posts: 1,011
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05-07-2009 01:59
I'm still learning, but I hunt around all the time for scripts and style and methods. I got the MLVv2...and it rocks... I was wanting a button format, cuz I am guessing it is clearest in general and most known format.
I like things to all work in a similar way, hating piles of different formats in one area.
Blue button box and the pie chart are best... One /whispers of general instructions is good at the first click... to many more are intrusive.
Bits of writing above stuff and flipping pose balls sitting everywhere is to busy on the eye and a messes up the flow.
That's my brain anyway.
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