Dune Shepherd said:
> Aw I'm suprised at the positive responses..
Most techie groups will do their best to be positive for as long as you
are (a) positive yourself, (b) not trying to get other people to do
your homework for you, (c) capable of learning basic stuff quickly, (d)
able to do at least some of the research yourself.
> Anyways I've been doing alot of looking while waiting for responses..
You see? That's JUST the sort of thing that wins you friends in techie
groups. :-)
> it seems that my lack of understanding comes
> from my lack of know anything about hardware.
I don't think you need to know spit about hardware, to be honest. Not if
you just want to animate simple stuff. (Translation: I can do simple
animation, and I don't know spit about hardware.)
> I'm assuming (from the
> brief glances in my rushed research) that a video card is much more
> than another device to produce heat in your computer?
It's entirely possible, but I think of it merely as "something down
there underneath X" (or, if I'm on Windows, "something down there
underneath the Win32 GDI").
> Unreal
> Tournament uses OpenGL so I'm guessing thats the "platform" R. H. was
> talking about?
No, but it /is/ a ****table graphics library. I looked at it - even
bought the books for it - but bottom line, I didn't like it very much.
So I wrote my own graphics engine instead.
> I do believe I'm quite more interesting in creating my
> own graphics engine rather than game now that I'm narrowing down my
> goal.
That's the ticket. :-)
>
> Personal info if it helps: My long term goal is to make a career out
> of this, and Im just beginning to narrow down my major in college and
> I need to pick between my new-found love for animation, or my
> naturally quick learning for scripting. My short term goal is to have
> an idea of what I want, and to create something (thus graphics engine,
> or previous to the replies a game) just to prove to myself i can do
> it, not for money.
Well, money's always nice, isn't it? But yeah, I know what you mean - I
didn't write a 3D engine because I thought I could make money off it.
If I'd thought that, I'd have needed my head examining, because I
wouldn't have had a snowball's chance in Arizona of making a single
penny from it.
> Anyway thankyou for the help. I'll be more open to critisizm when
> outside of religions forums
Sounds like you were stung pretty bad. In the technical world, we have
our own religious principles (****tability, performance, correctness,
clarity, generality, simplicity, reusability...), and they can cause
some pretty interesting arguments on occasion. :-)
But anyway, in the techie world - and especially in Usenet - if you
can't take (constructive) criticism, you're toast, because that's how
Usenet maintains rigour. People are people, and someone is bound to
tell you a bunch of junk at some point (possibly me, actually), and
it's only proper that they should be corrected, for your sake, so that
you are not misled. And when /you/ post a bunch of junk, /you/ will be
corrected. How you handle that is up to you, but a thick skin is pretty
much a prerequisite for long term Usenet usage.
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