Decentraland Creators Workshop

by 0x41eb5f82af60873b3c14fedb898a1712f5c35366 (theankou)

Decentraland Creators Workshop is Discord Community that i want to build.

By creating this community I'll put an end to all the problems related to 3D in Decentraland.

List of issues that new users encounter right now, when they start to create some in-world content.

• Lack of Support in Decentraland Discord

  • Currently, there are no active support of users that encounter issues related to 3D. Curators rarely answer on questions. Lack of motivation...

• Documentation Problems

  • Outdated Data

  • Lack of Addons and Scripts

    • For example, we have emotes documentation, but i don't see any scripts or addons that will allow users to convert Blender particles with keyframe animations, to objects attached to bones with keyframes.

  • Lack of in-depth information about 3D modelling, texturing, animation... (issues in process of creating models, weight painting problems and rules, texel density, mipmaps, texture compression, alpha, etc)

  • Awesome Repository Problem

    • It's good to have GitHub repo with all the links to repositories, but for now it feels like infinite landing page. Easy to miss something.
    • Because of that, users miss all important thing that other creators made through grant proposals (It was challenging for me to find addons made by PunkPink)
    • I'm sure that new users will have several questions about any things listed in repository, but no one will answer for their questions here.

  • Videos Problem

    • Link in documentation doesn't work. Looks like YouTube channel is deleted.
    • Because of that, there is no guarantee that educational content that someone made will always exist.
    • Lack of really good tutorials related to 3D content.
    • I had no luck to find any tutorials made from community. I just can't see videos that, for example, Malloy made.

• Test Servers Problem

  • Currently, SDK7 and Wearables In-World are not equal to live client. This cause many different issues, like textures downscale, different rendering of emission, old UI.

• Problem with current grant proposals related to 3D.

  • For past couple of months there were several grant proposals where creators wanted to do repository, won grant, and then we end up with low quality content that nobody actually use.

• Studios

  • Page is great, but great for big companies and big projects.
  • Each Studio use their own Discord channel, thats a huge problem for casual user that wants simple wearable from simple creator.
  • Usually, from my experience, studios ignore customers with small requests and small budgets.

Thats just a couple of issues, there are many more and we as community will focus on their solutions.

I'm planning to invest grant money to this things:

• Discord Channel:

  • Activity and Support
  • Discord Bot
  • Topics Setup (for documentation, for videos, for github, everything will be available as simple as possible. Needed topics for needed info.)
  • Other things related to Discord and Discord issues

• GitHub Repositories:

  • High-quality content available for everyone. No more low-quality. No more low-quality grant proposals.
    • Base Meshes, High Quality Models, Whatever... (Everything related to Decentraland)
    • Addons, Scripts, Source Files for Blender, Substance Painter, ETC
    • Created by community and curated by pros. With love.

• In-depth documentation about 3D:

  • Always up-to-date documentation.
  • Everything we need to know about complex things written as simple as possible, but at the same time in-depth as possible.
  • Tips and Tricks
  • Guidelines for things in GitHub Repositories

• Video Tutorials:

  • Large amount of video tutorials. Starts with basics, ends with complex things.
  • Guidelines for things in GitHub Repositories

• Monthly interviews:

  • With Decentraland Creators and Studios.
  • With Creators and maybe famous Creators outside Decentraland.

• Educational streams:

  • Weekly or monthly streams with Q/A and educational content from creators

• Creators meetings

  • Just a meetings where creators will be able to speak with each other

• Support meetings

  • Sometimes it's not enough just to write simple solution to user in chat. There might be users that would like to get step by step solution in meeting.

• Purchase and Share of Educational Content, Scripts, Addons, from Popular Websites like Artstation, Gumroad available for whole community. Only worth stuff. No Garbage.

• Not only community creators will do content. I will do content too. - I, as owner of discord and creator of this proposal will focus on encountering and solving issues related to creators, discord, documentation, etc. - I, as creator, as senior 3d artist, will do everything listed above. I will do my maximum, with my soul.

Of course i wont deal with everything alone. I will ask Decentraland community members and Decentraland creators and i will pay them fair price.

This is a long-term proposal, that will require more than 6 or 12 months. It's not about fast and short solution. It's about building a creators community.

More ideas will appear as soon as community will be created and will raise.

I want to hear community opinion, before creating polished grant proposal.

I want to publish grant proposal at first week of January, perfect date would be 01 January 2024. I truly believe in my proposal and see many pros for community. I truly believe in Decentraland and i will stay here as creator till the end.

My grant expectations starts from 150000$ yearly, or 15000$ per month, and of course, every cost will be transparent as possible. We are in cryptoworld, we have sings and transactions...

I'm not sure if thats a fair price, small price, or big price. Maybe 20k, 30k per month would be better and will allow to do more complex and expensive things, like asking for famous creators for interview, or doing researches in different spheres like in-depth 3D scan and 3D printing information.

Thank you!

• Your idea is great, thats a next level for Decentraland community!
• Your idea is garbage, community feels good as is.
• Invalid question/options

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