programming jumpstart ?
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- rounce0
To ease you into it a more visual programming language may be in order. Alot of peeps would say use Max/MSP and Jitter but if you're on Windows give VVVV a try (http://www.vvvv.org) it'll get you thinking in the correct fashion for how you should approaching large complex procedural animation, where many language elements and the learning curve for processing and Actionscript could be a distraction, it also supports shaders and is capable of far sexier visuals and audio than processing. Processing is kind of cool but also slightly overrated, it really really isn't as easy as slapping out a few lines of code and making something awesome. Actionscript is generally better if you want to make some cash, as it's by far the most used out of the aforementioned 3 and will most likely get you the most work.
It really comes down to a few main things:
+ Know the language. You wouldn't be happy hopping into bed with someone who was a crap shag now would you? The language isn't going to do it all for you, it's alot of give and take and if you're both shit you're not going to get anywhere, so you're going to have to work on things. However once you get into it more you'll start being able to work around it's short comings, provided it can do the shit that matters beautiful things will happen.
+ It's all relative, I could make a procedural animation in Actionscript, VVVV, Processing and C# with the same end product (albiet with a slightly different method of platform execution) but it would appear to be the same to the end user because I used the same programming concepts as certain language elements tend to be quite common nowdays, the syntax would be different but how I thought it up and the general application structure would be roughly the same.
+ Can't remember this one...
So yeah, I hope that helped. I wouldn't mind one of my (dare I say it?) heroes like mrdoob popping in and giving his $0.02 (come to think of it I'd really like to track him down and pick his brains as he's local to me, OH SHI-!).
Oh, and please do ignore people posting short crap about "_________ is the best" or "learn _________, some cool shit made with that" they've most likely seen a few demos and been impressed but haven't worked at it enough to really be able to use _________ but have stayed on the fanboy wagon to feel a bit smarter.
Good luck whatever your choice.
Feel free to drop me an email if you're getting stuck, as seeing other people's stumbling points helps me think of things differently and often improve myself.
Hope that made sense....
- In other words there is no silver bullet.rounce
- I bumped the thread.
Thanks.Jaline - +1 Max/Msp/Jitterarmsbottomer
- Only thing with Jitter is that it's sloooowww and it costs whereas VVVV is free but whatever.rounce