by andylegate » Sun Mar 02, 2008 5:04 pm
I've already made a formal request of the Maintainer judges in this aspect. It would be unfair for me to demand that guys like you that have the advantage of knowing right away how to use new plugin features with no instructions at all, not use them.
But at the same time, I've asked the Maintainer Judges to not use animated textures as a measure against other Ages that are submitted without them. I'm not about to suddenly change plugins with less than a week to go before the time limit is up, and especially without the knowledge or instructions on how to use something like this.
That's why I'm an advocate for plugin's being held back until at least some info on how to do some of the new features are at least posted with the new plugin.
A good example of that is the Sound Tutorial. I was using it the other day, as I couldn't remember how to do something. I'm using plugin 1.2.1.
Well, guess what? The 3D sound had been changed. Frowning as I didn't remember it being done that way, I used that scripting, and got a big fat error when I went to export. This was 2 days ago. I fixed it by loading up one of my other Ages and looking at it.
Then today this new plugin comes out, and guess what? It's the one that the tutorial is talking about with these new flags.
Now....that means for 2 days we had the incorrect tutorial in place, during a competition inwhich many new writers maybe involved.
Ouch.
Hopefully I was the only one that ended up having to take a couple of Tylenol until I could figure out what was going on.
But this is a great example of the many tentacles of the Writers Guild not talking to each other, or at least not paying attention to what is going on. Sorry if I just ticked someone or people off, not judging you, just pointing out some very valid facts.