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Smeagolfan24

Member Since 26 Jul 2007
Offline Last Active Sep 06 2008 02:18 PM

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Uh-oh

08 September 2007 - 04:46 PM

This is a video for the upcoming RTS, World in Conflict. That's not the improtant part, though. Look at the speaker's shirt.

See it? It's says In-N-Out Burgers. :p

I wanted to hear what you all think of that, since I immediately thought of this mod when I noticed it. :p

An idea

02 September 2007 - 11:14 PM

... is apprenticeship. Imagine if every, or almost every, "new" modder had an experienced person informally teach them. The teacher would set his own scedule, set "assignments," and overall help his student enough as he thinks is sufficient. If this happened forum-wide, we'd have a lot more mods and a lot less "I have an idea..." threads.

It's a thought, coming from a person who feels somewhat overwealmed with the prospect of teaching myself to mod. Here's some pros and cons that I can think of:

Pros:
- More modders coming in and more experience all around
- More modders = more mods, and therefore more fun.
- It's a cycle; when a student is taught, "graduates," and learns some more on their own, another teacher is born.
- Much easier for people to get started with modding.
- It could be organized pretty well; people could "apply" for a specific area that they wanted to learn (even some oldies).
- Skills taught here could help someone in a possible future job. (animating, for instance)

Cons
- Somewhat time-consuming. People often don't have time for this, but the real pressure would be on the students to work to learn.
- Number of likely mods might get repetative and overwealming.
- The pride and joy of many modders is that they taught themselves. This would be lost slightly, but people do have the option of whether they want training.

What do you all think?

Mod Fan signatures

27 July 2007 - 10:11 PM

A question about T3A (slighty offtopic) : Are the pictures that say "So and so Mod Fan" acquired by a request?

What to do, what to do...

27 July 2007 - 09:17 PM

(Not sure where to put this (a topic about modding in general), so this should be moved if needed.)

Really, how did all of you esteemed modders become as good as you are. Of course, you learned from betters, but after you've read the articles and listened (read) the conversations here, what then did you do? Try and create your own minor mod? Join another to learn? I'm at a crossroads, and though I really have had no experience actually modding, I really haven't had something to test what I can do and understand. Any suggestions?