Ever wanted to break into the gaming industry?

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Demon: All I've seen so far is you dismissing it as being "done through a nice user friendly GUI, since this is aimed at artists" which it clearly isn't, if you've read the content covered in the link I provided

LL: As I said before, Maya is fantastic. But it is a program for animation- and that makes it for artists.

Demon: And here I thought making a game required making the models in the game, and thus artists. Foolish me.

I don't get it. First I say this is for artists, and then demon tells me it's not. So I believe you, and try to explain why I believed it was for artists. Then you tell me that of course it is for artists and try to make me look like an idiot who thinks there are no need for artists. Whatever.

And my point EXACTLY was the MEL is a scripting language and not going to replace OpenGL or DirectX, thus you need to know those APIs as well.

And yes demon, I realize that getting into the game industry is a catch-22. That is why I have been working at learning DirectX, OpenGL and other graphic programming tools and taking as many graduate-level graphics classes at school as I can. I've been working on games myself, trying to find time after the 60+ hours I spend on school work each week plus my job. But obviously it's hard to make progress, as I still need to sleep and eat and do those other pesky things that take up time in The Real World. And having a social life or friends is pretty much a joke. I'm actually looking forward to graduating in May so that I can get a job and have more free time to work on games or Linux.

Obviously this is something you are very excited about, and I'm sorry if you think I am trying to boo hoo on you or steal your thunder or rob your dreams or whatever else. That is not my intention. I tend to be down to earth and my comments were intended to point out that this will not make you a master game programmer, but instead give you a good start. It's something I've said a couple time in this thread, and it's something you have finally acknowleged too. I don't know why you took so much offense to what I said originally- maybe you misunderstood what I was trying to say. That happens a lot because I am not a good communicator, and people at this board used to understand that, being that we are all geeks. But lately things have changed, and everybody takes offense to everything- almost like they want to be offended and argue. In fact I have found myself doing that, and I probably did that in this thread. I'm sorry, it wasn't intended.