Torax wrote:I never thought that making a weapon from scratch is easy.
I just want to clarify that what I meant was there's some people who do (I didn't mean you).,
Torax wrote:
Feralidragon wrote:Which exactly was the problem that you had to make you do the weapon from scratch?
Dat is a long and something strange story, mate...i'l try to explain shortly..
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I understand... I had also thought in going into the industry itself once, but now (and for some years already) I really don't want to tbh, I prefer to do what I do when I want to do as I would like to do rather than being told what to do, in which pace and independently of what I think.
I am a programmer in RL btw, and I pretty much love what I do (PHP stuff, mostly), and here everyone's opinion matters (mine matters a lot more relative others given my position here though), and the funny thing is that most of the bases to know how to program at all came from dealing with UT and UScript. I probably wouldn't have such a good job today to my own liking if I didn't invest some time in learning UScript and the basic programming concepts from it.
By the time I had to learn Java, PHP and some other stuff and object oriented programming in general, it was extremely easy to understand everything for me (basically I already knew the OOP stuff by then, I just didn't know all the technical names of stuff like "methods", "members" and whatnot).
I think for the industry itself, UT is extremely outdated and shouldn't be used as a ticket for it, and instead one should be investing that time into learning UDK, Unity or other updated known platform, however as a basic learning base for something else, it's still one of the best places to learn things.
Right now, thanks to UT once again, I am learning this C++ stuff and how the native stuff works, and given a rather wide background in programming of mine, it's now for me also easier to understand it rather than if I started the same thing 2 or 3 years ago (when my programming wasn't as solidified).
By learning it, despite that it's rather confusing and difficult at first, I get to understand more and deeper concepts that, not only will make possible for me to do what I want to do, as by doing so my own programming will improve in other languages, as my algorithms, and as everything else, to not mention that past a certain point, is something I can at least mention in my CV.
So I understand you perfectly, and all I can say is that wasted time on this sort of thing is never actually a waste. I didn't start doing the things I do yesterday, its been years since I started stuff and it was as frustrating for me to learn some of it as it's probably being for you, but sooner rather than later you will start seeing results from that learning curve, not only in what you wanted to do in your primary objective, but it will reflect on other stuff positively as well.
The real secret for every good project is not quitting it, even if things look grim.
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