[all] Create the complete list of Core+Advanced concepts

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Note: Will turn into an internal page explaining all of them in one/two paragraphs.

Important: Each concept deserves its own specific guide (or page/pages inside a guide)

Reference

Learning Paths: Meta-Structure

0. Overview/Landing
1. Getting Started: Quickstart
2. Getting Started: Hello World
3. Basics
4. Beyond the Basics
5. Intermediate: Core/Essentials Concepts
6. Intermediate: Advanced/Non-Essentials Concepts
7. Mastery Toolkit
8. Reference Manual

General Concepts (Common to All)

Core (Essentials)

you have projects install that provide assets

• Creating entities/components
• Assets Panel:
  Simple version for the Developers Section + Reference to the assets panel guide
• Essential scene components
  • Spawn Point
  • Ground Plane
  • Colliders
  • Scene Settings
    • Post-processing
  • Simple: Publish your scene
• Host your Own World
  • Admin Panel
  • Publish your scene

Advanced (Non-Essentials)

• ...

Content Creator Concepts

Essentials

Studio

• Dashboard : New UI -> Extended greatly
• Scene Management
• Project Management
• UI navigation

Assets

• CMS (non-Technical / non-tech-savvy)
  • Assets packs, put them in the scene
    • Starter packs/kits assets only
    • Place an object
  • Assets Panel (in depth)
    • Search
    • Categories
    • Teach how to build a scene with the panel
    • Sourcing models to build scene
    • Change skybox
      • cubemap
      • procedural
• Technical-User Essentials
  • Custom Assets Usage
  • Importing (+compression)
  • Optimization
    • Compression
  • Animations
  • Installing Projects
  • Saving
  • Sourcing Assets
  • Sourcing & Creating Avatars
  • Importing & Using Avatars
  • Creating your User Library
  • Animation Curves
  • Animation triggers
  • Animation Timeline
  • Asset Prefabs
  • Look Dev
  • Material Editor (viewer+editor)
    • Lightmaps + Baker
• Optimization (introduction/simple. Need to know it exists, reference to their guides)
  • Variants & LODs
  • Dynamic Loading
  • Compression
• ... #todo: other file types ...
  • Image
  • Video
  • Audio
  • Text
• Important Components
  • Camera
  • Parameter component (Visualscript)
  • Animations

Non-Essentials

Studio

• Snapping
• Non-default UI layout
• Gizmos
• Switch origin
• Switch obj reference space
• Validation/Debug
  • Tilde menu
  • How to use stats
    • Upper limits of drawcalls
    • Upper limits of triangles
    • What are drawcalls/etc
    • Budgets: Not go over the limits, what are they
  • Debug helpers
    • Physics helpers
    • ...
• Graphics Basics: Glossary and gamedev concepts

Assets

• Budgets: Not go over the limits, what are they
• Custom Materials (advanced skill)
  • Editing
  • Setting them up
• Optimization
  • Variants & LODs
  • Dynamic Loading
  • Compression
• ee.GLTF + Extensions
  • Hierarchy
  • Model components
  • gltf vs glb
• Other Files
  • UVOL
• Important Components

Lighting / Look Dev

• Environment Map + Baker

Avatars

• Animations
• Mocap

Mastery Toolkit (looking behind the curtain)

(how to be fully independent and figure out anything without guidance)

• Parameter components
• Project Management
  • GitHub Docs
  • Team sync tools
• AI content creation
  • Skyboxes
  • 3D models
  • Material creation
• Creator Resources
  • Links on DCC creation
  • Links gamedev content
• Model Checkers
  • VRM model
  • GLTF view
• Bridging into Visualcript

Manual

• GLTF hierarchies (maybe: relationship to USD)

Visualscript Concepts

Core (Essentials)

• Script Management
  • Creating a script
  • Editing a script
    • Introduce Node Management
  • Deleting a script
  • Play Script (how and differences)
    • Headful
    • Headless
• Node Management
  • Creating a node
  • Deleting a node
• User Interface Breakdown ( Visualscript Workspace Panel (holds everything else) )
  • Panel Buttons
    • Zoom in/out
    • Fit view to center
    • Load
    • Save
    • Clear Script Panel
    • Help
    • Play (headful. stops when not focused)
  • Utility Panel (ui focused, not concepts)
    • Node Directory
    • Templates (introduce simply)
    • Variables (introduce simply)
  • Visualscript Editor Panel (properties)
    • Disable
    • Play (headless. developer focused)
  • Node Picker
• Node
  • Types
    • Flow
    • Time
    • Async
    • Event
    • Function
  • Essential Nodes
    • Event
      • onStart : Entry point
      • onExecute : loop
    • Flow
      • debugLog
    • Component Nodes
      • Getter
      • Setter
      • Listener / Use
    • State Nodes
      • Getter
      • Setter
      • Listener / Use
    • Action
      • Dispatcher
      • Consumer
• Edges
  • Flow
    • Input
    • Output
  • Value
    • Input
    • Output
• Data Type
  • What they are
  • Integer
  • Float
  • String
  • Bool
  • Vector N
  • Matrix NxN (up to 4)
  • Entity
  • Object (like a dictionary/tables)
  • Lists (like python list) array of any
  • Euler (vec3 : orientation)
  • Quaternion (vec4 : orientation)

Advanced (Non-Essentials)

• Best Practices
• Variables
  • What are they
  • How to use
    • Create
    • Edit
    • Delete
    • Setter
    • Getter
    • Listener
• Templates (aka Node Groups)
  • What are they
  • How to use
    • Create
    • Edit Name
    • Delete
    • Apply
• Nodes: Complete List (for later)
• Node Profiles
  • Core
  • Scene
  • Struct
  • Engine (future: might represent/abstract the features of the engine modules)

Mastery Toolkit (looking behind the curtain)

(how to be fully independent and figure out anything without guidance)

• Creating your own nodes
  • Preparation for the Manual / Guts of the node system
• Bridging into Typescript

Typescript Concepts

Note: Better tracked from

• Beginner (Getting Started + Basics): [developer] Create the Typescript: Basics guide #130
• Beyond the Basics: [developer] Create the Typescript: Beyond the Basics guide #132
• Core (essentials): [developer] Create the Typescript: Core Concepts guides #133
• Advanced (non-essentials): [developer] Create the Typescript: Advanced Concepts guides #134
• Mastery (looking behind the curtains): [developer] Create the Typescript: Mastery Toolkit guides #135
• Engine API (typedoc): https://etherealengine.github.io/etherealengine-docs/api/

Core (Essentials)

• State
• ECS
• Inputs (reworked soon)
• Physics (simulation) (being reworked)
• Networking (spawnEntity)

Advanced (Non-Essentials)

• Full custom Networking:
• XRUI
• Social System
• Avatars

Mastery Toolkit (looking behind the curtain)

(how to be fully independent and figure out anything without guidance)

• Engine Code navigation
• How GLTF models/scenes work internally
• WebXR / Rendering
• CMS / Studio
• CI/CD
• Unit Testing