(My apologies if this is already widely known on this forum, but I don’t see any mention of it.)
Ultimately it’s not a huge deal, since it’s a very common mistake and most people know that “cell shading” really means “cel shading”, but it’s very grating to someone with long experience in 3D graphics. I mean, it’s such a common mistake that the wikipedia page even lists “cell shading” as a variant name, but since the actual name derives from “animation cel” then the more common word “cell” is clearly a mistake.
I would suggest something like changing the official material to “Cel Material” but keep “Cell Material” around for backwards compatibility, and put a note on the documentation page.
Hey @jhocking - First and foremost, welcome to the Babylon family! We’re sincerely happy to have you here!
Thanks for flagging this issue. Great catch!
Before I dive in to take a look, we always like to encourage/ask folks if they’d be willing to submit a PR for it? Not the end of the world, but if you’re willing, we’d LOVE to count you as an active contributor to the project
gosh I just noticed this way down in my TODO list. um @PirateJC you should probably go ahead and take care of this after all, because I have no idea when I would.
Goblin: Hi, id like to make an arbitrary change to your spellbook. Please see my link to wikipedia referencing your naming convention as a synonym in the first line. Yours is definitely wrong.
Wizard: Hello traveler, Warmest welcome humanly possible. Would you like to add the changes?
Hey, I wouldn’t call my suggestion an arbitrary change, since this is an existing 3D animation term you were getting wrong. An arbitrary change would be if I had no other reason than my personal preference. This is a specific technical term in a very technical field.
I did say “ultimately it’s not a huge deal” in my very first post. I was simply alerting you to the error if anyone wanted to do anything about it, not demanding that it change. And I didn’t immediately go “no u”, I actually intended to do it myself, but after two months I realized I wasn’t going to after all.
There are cases in every language where there exist different spellings of the same word (doughnut / donut, for example).
The term ‘Cell shading’ comes from ‘Celluloid’ so there is no error here.
TBH IDT we need to spend TMT discussing that
But probably we need to change all instances of ‘behavior’ to ‘behaviour’…
