Path: chuka.playstation.co.uk!scea!greg_labrec@interactive.sony.com From: Clint Kelly Newsgroups: scea.yaroze.programming.2d_graphics,scee.yaroze.programming.2d_graphics Subject: General Complaining Date: Mon, 04 Aug 1997 20:05:33 -0400 Organization: Cornell University Lines: 27 Message-ID: <33E66E4D.47E@erols.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: rkv-as1s30.erols.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.01KIT (Win95; U) Xref: chuka.playstation.co.uk scea.yaroze.programming.2d_graphics:195 scee.yaroze.programming.2d_graphics:157 First, I'd like to say that all of the help here at the newsgroups has been really great. Whenever I have a question here, I've always gotten a response, usually within 24 hours. Without the contributions of everyone here, I'd still be looking at a blank screen. Now for my complaints. I've found many of the example programs to be poorly documented. Maybe I'm not quite as beastly when it comes to programming as the average Net Yaroze user, but I'm fairly experienced, and I had a lot of trouble getting started. If a "tutorial" program only displays a few sprites on a screen, or something equally "trivial," then I assume it was created for beginners. And, speaking as a beginner, I'd appreciate comments on just about every line. For instance, I downloaded some SCEE 2D demos called tuto1 and tuto2, etc., and they were pretty big (many over 20 pages long with KeyView) and, to be honest (and a little rude... sorry), the didn't really help me out at all. I don't mean to sound like a jerk here, cos I do really appreciate all the assistance I've gotten from the staff around here (although having paid in total almost $1000, I'd be pretty pissed if I wasn't getting any help). Maybe I'm in the bottom 5% of Net Yaroze owners in terms of programming skills, and in that case I apologize profusely, but I found Ira's Rainey's 2D tutorials and documentation to be infinitely more useful than anything I've downloaded from the official site. Clint