If they have an actual valid question then of course I'll answer them. However, most of the comments are from people are turning to me for advice first and not seeking out the communities or a tutorials help.
It just gets annoying having to herd them to the forums
I agree with you but in the case of these forum, thing are a little different... for seeking information here, you need first a "search" function who work in a normal way... posting rate here is high, and good informative post are very fast lost between thousand and thousand of other post...
Dinoff wrote :
all the ways people try to give ideas or tell you how to make an ability when they have never looked at the txt for sins. i dont mind helping new modders thats fun. but when people with no intention of modding and making mods ask questions or try to tell you how to make something
I am one of these guy... i have no intention of make a mod... knowing very little about the sins code itself... few time, i have discuss idea... the thing who motive me the more is when numerous modders say me that something is impossible... in some time, i will try to work on halo, these thing who destroy a full solar system... 99% of change that it will not work... but the remaining 1% push me to try... in a lot of case, my mistake lead to new interesting thing...
By example, the covenant carrier ship is my first textured ship in a sins game... you can ask Canadaman about the strange effect that i have render during my several test and trial... one of it allow me to texture model without using a nm texture... but having the same result that with a nm map... can seem a non important detail but can become interesting when related to memory optimization... for the vanilla game, when these method is apply on all texture/mesh, around 350 mb of ram is spared... mean that it allow more low end computer to use sins, without loose of quality...
The problem is not really when someone propose a idea but more when someone try to impose his own idea...
About "or are trying to tell me to try something through a question that i already have or trying to tell me something is possible when they havent tried it", this is one of my speciality... Remember our discussion on the other forum about the halo ring... i am fileOSoft there... these discussion was not a loosing time... soon of later, i will begin code myself and try to solve the problem ( odd are against me but i wish to try )... one thing that i am sure, it is impossible by using entity file in a normal way... so, i need to find a non normal way who don't crash the game...
