quote:Original post by BrassMonkee7381
being at my age it is very hard to find information that is clear and that you don''t need to have graduated high school to understand. i know with all my heart this is want i want to do, but after looking at programming magazines and only understanding enough of the code to make me even more depressed it is hard to go on. seeing wonderful gazillion polygon models and then coming home to see my 300 polygon piece of crap is more than i can bear. YOU WOULD THINK THERE WOULD BE ONE GOOD TUTORIAL THAT WOULD EXPLAIN HOW TO ANIMATE A FRICKIN'' MS3D MODEL!! so, if you have any, please post an experience in programming where things turned out all right to give me the slightest sense of hope and will to keep going on.
Once upon a time, in an age many moons ago, there was the Atari and Commodore 64 computers. And lo, they came with basic, and lo, many dweeby teenagers hackethed away at the gosubs and gotos and created worlds within worlds, worlds only inside the machine. Perhaps the graphics weren''t that great, but there was nothing else, so they would do. Pehaps the sound wasn''t 24-bit hi-fi, but it was pleasent. What mattered more was that the games were new, the ideas were fresh, what the limited machines could not do was made up for with the imagination of the player.
Anyways kiddo, don''t give up, because most of the people who are programming started somewhere, and they did not start out as the master. There is just too much information involved in programming computers now for anyone to just be an uber god without years of discipline and hacking at the code. Keep at it, but keep your focus clear, prove yourself one step at a time and push yourself to do more and more but slowly. Nobody will probably think your spinny cubes and things are amazing but it''s one step toward creating a master piece. I know I was thrilled the first time I saw my spinny cubes, because I had hacked it in x86 assembler code :-) But the ante has been raised alot now, I kind of feel sorry for you youngins because the bar has been raised soo high. It requires alot more discipline and determination to make it now than it did in the golden age.
Peace