I will say. As a fairly new guy in babylonjs world, with not very high level skillset, that I also think that videos are good way to go, as a developer and 3D artist, I basically live on google, and almost the first thing I do when I have any kind of problem, doubt or whatever is look for video of that on youtube.
Now in case of Babylon that’s not happening, of course, we have amazing forum here and playground is awesome tool, and with that said, I indeed never needed a video tutorial to find a solution or guidelines for Babylonjs.
But my humble opinion is, that the first thing that people who are in this type of work, (and I know a lot of people like that) will do is go on Youtube and look something about certain topic. That’s how I familiarize myself with any new technology, library, asset, option, function, or whatever. I will type something in google, I will get million results, but first thing I will do I will go on Youtube and watch a video about it if possible. So even tho, videos ARE old-school approach, I believe that the way that someone will find about Babylonjs, familiarize him/herself about the engine, and DECIDE to give it a shot, is through videos.
And as Deltakosh said, I believe that with the growth of the popularity of engine, video content will be made by a lot of people who are not in the core of the engine development, as It happens with almost any popular technology today. And I think that’s something that needs to happen.
A month ago, I was sitting in front of my computer, and I was thinking about the babylon server-side, and I gone to Youtube, looked for something in that context, and I found some, old videos, that barely touch the topic, and I was thinking “wow, it’s so sad that there is almost nothing about the Babylonjs on Youtube”. And when recently I saw that Inspector tutorials came out, I was really excited, because I thought, yes, this is it, tutorials are beginning, I will have a lot of new material to watch. And then this thread came out, and yes, I was excited again.
And, I am not sure if it is just me. But when something is not on Youtube, like for example I was using Konva.js for a while, and I found almost nothing on Youtube about that. My instant thought was, this is not popular at all, I will find some other library. I believe that is what’s happening in people brains, in young people brains, that live in the era of videos, of watching the screens all the time, while drinking coffee, smoking a cigar, eating food. Nobody wants to eat and scroll through 200 lines of code. I am saying this from psychological perspective, especially of today young people who are on the internet, on the youtube from the literally first year of their life. You never know, who will stumble upon Babylon video and that will change his/her life.
So even tho we don’t need it maybe, or it is not new epic way to spread information. I think it’s crucial in making Babylon more popular among new people who are still searching what they want to do and use, among infinite number of possible technologies nowdays.
Sorry for the long post, Maybe I am not someone whos opinion counts, but there it is.