Path: chuka.playstation.co.uk!!user From: "Ira Rainey" Newsgroups: scea.yaroze.programming.2d_graphics Subject: Re: General Complaining Date: Tue, 05 Aug 1997 20:15:17 +0100 Organization: PlayStation Net Yaroze (SCEE) Lines: 49 Message-ID: <5s7tjj$oj5@chuka.playstation.co.uk> References: <33E66E4D.47E@erols.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: dialup-05-37.netcomuk.co.uk Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Newsreader: Microsoft Internet Mail & News for Macintosh - 3.0 In article <33E66E4D.47E@erols.com>, Clint Kelly wrote: >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. I totally agree, I stared at a blank screen for weeks! >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. When I downloaded them I was just baffled, I think they could have been made a lot simpler (for tutorials) >Maybe I'm in the bottom 5% of Net Yaroze owners in terms of >programming skills, and in that case I apologize profusely Don't apologise for not understanding, by accepting that you don't understand something and then trying to find out about it is a lot better than kidding yourself. Nothing's easy, and with every programmer writing code in their own little quirky way, reading [more to the point understanding] other peoples coding can be hard sometimes at best. >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. That's the very reason I wrote them in the first place, to make things simple. I never realised when I wrote them how many people would use them, but I get loads of mail from everywhere now telling me how much they've helped. I don't claim to be the best yaroze coder, hell since I wrote that stuff I've learnt loads more stuff, one thing just leads into another. Keep up the coding Ira http://www.playstation.co.uk/~shadow -- "The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in determination" -- Tommy Lasorda