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AnimaTek's World Builder - user manual & online help

World Builder is a stand-alone computer graphic application for Windows 95 and Windows NT. World Builder was designed for users ranging from architects to game developers. Programmed by the people that created Tetris, It enables the user to create animated 3 dimensional scenes consisting of realistic looking mountains, rippling oceans, and multi-layered skies.

   
Forcade Associates designed and produced the user manual and help file for Animatek’s World Builder—a 3D terrain animation program  

Forcade Associates Project Scope
We produced the manual for version one of the program. Once again, programmers located in Moscow, RUS and San Francisco, CA contracted us to write, illustrate, design, and produce the user manual for version 2. Forcade Associates also designed and produced World Builder's companion on-line Help File System. Our computer graphics experience enabled us to exhaustively test the software under production conditions, document bugs, provide feature enhancements, and specify user interface refinements.

Our 500 page illustrated manual is fully indexed with a detailed table of contents, tutorials, command reference, and glossary of terms. We provided all manual content including the design of tutorials, and tutorial support files. The finished manual pages were provided in plate-ready form, suitable for printing, trimming, and binding.

The Help File was also designed by Forcade Associates. It provides a fully illustrated interactive reference to World Builder’s user interface command set, variables, and procedures. Forcade Associates was responsible for all design, content development, programming, and testing required to produce the Help File.

   

Forcade Associates also designed and programmed
the comprehensive Help File system for World Builder.

Job Story:online help file system