[gameprogrammer] Re: Welcome Tanmay.
- From: Bob Pendleton <bob@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: gameprogrammer@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 6 Aug 2010 02:09:47 -0500
On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 5:49 PM, Richard Sabbarton
<richard.sabbarton@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi Bob/List...
>
> Welcome Tanmay...
>
> Agreed, I think it is a great idea. My name is Richard, I work in the
> software industry (support rather than development) but not anything
> gaming related. I am not an "old fart" yet (my Wife would probably
> disagree) but I am certainly careering that way at a rate of knots.
>
> As a hobby coder my game development interests are entirely for fun
> but my current project is not a game. It is something that have been
> born of my previous frustrations when developing 3D games. I have
> made several starts to many different game projects. I get as far as
> a vaguely functioning engine and then start looking at adding 3D
> content. I then look at using Max or Blender and find my lack of
> experience with these apps and my poor at best design skills leave me
> with no models to add to my game. As a hobby coder I don't have a
> team of designers and I am not too keen on spending the time learning
> to use these apps. In fact, in my early projects I created models
> using scripts to generate vertex info in ascii format. Since then I
> have been working on a model format, creator and editor that will
> allow me to quickly generate 3D models to place in my projects. I am
> currently in the process of re-designing the GUI of my application to
> make it easier and more intuitive to use. I will be publishing this
> application as a beta when it is roadworthy.
Hey, why wait? If you publish it now you just might find you have
volunteers to help you with it. The problem you are working on is one
that I have faced to way to long. It is a problem that shows up here
on a regular basis. It is *the* problem that kills most game projects.
Bob Pendleton
>
> Regards
>
> Richard
>
>
>
> On 5 August 2010 22:44, Bob Pendleton <bob@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> We have a new member of the list Tanmay Kumar just joined us.
>>
>> I do not usually welcome new members. Most people like to sit on the
>> sidelines for a while and see who things go here before jumping in and
>> asking a question. But, seeing them message telling me about Tanmay
>> reminded me that we have a mix of folks that have been on the list for
>> a long time and a bunch of folks who just recently joined. So, I
>> thought it would be fun if people posted a little bit about
>> themselves, what they are working on, what they want to learn, and we
>> can all help each other get there.
>>
>> Yeah, and the list has been a little quite lately. Kind of common
>> during the end of northern hemisphere summer.
>>
>> I'll start off. I'm Bob Pendleton, the guy who runs this list. I've
>> been running it for over 10 years and I'm pretty happy with it. It
>> averages around 600 members. This list rarely has flame wars. The spam
>> rate is low. The quality of the discussion here are pretty damned
>> high.
>>
>> I'm mostly a teacher now days. I teach game development and other
>> things at Austin Community College in Austin Texas and I also teach
>> other places when I can. I'm an old fart. I've been coding since I was
>> 19 and that was 37 years ago. My first paid job was to port a game
>> from a minicomputer to a mainframe way back in the early '70s. I've
>> spent most of my career in computer graphics, multimedia, and games.
>>
>> I get great pleasure out of helping people learn and I find that a lot
>> of people learn a lot when they try to build games.
>>
>> Welcome everyone.
>>
>> Bob Pendleton
>>
>> P.S.
>>
>> You've all heard the statement that there is no such thing as a stupid
>> question... Well, working as a teacher for a while I have identified
>> one kind of question that is always stupid, the question that you do
>> not ask.
>>
>> OK, ok.... yeah I have heard what I thought was a stupid question,
>> "Why do I need to know that!?" It is a stupid question because it
>> assumes that you can some how know what you will need to know in the
>> future.
>>
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