by andylegate » Sun Nov 23, 2008 10:24 am
I tend to post mine right away, while it's fresh in my mind. If I don't I forget things and have to go back and look all over again.
The snowfall tutorial that I wrote up I did wait, but that's because the RAD was taking up all of my time, but I did promise to put it out ASAP, and so I did just a day after the RAD was over with.
That's me however, just like when I found out how to do the animated linking panels, I posted literally within minutes instead of going to bed and waiting for this morning.
I understand what you're saying Trylon, however, if you go back and look over old posts, you'll find in many places where people have stated that they figured out how to do something, but no explination, or that they will do a tutorial later.
And then days go by...weeks......even months and still nothing from them. When asked about it, if they even bother to reply, the answer in many cases is that they are now busy with something else....gets rather frustrating to, YES us "lesser mortals"
"lesser mortals" being those of us that don't know programming, don't know how to hack plasma. However we DO know how to follow step by step instructions, and it even teaches us when we do it that way. I know that when I write my tutorials over at the GoMa, I make them with LOTS of pictures, and never assume that the reader knows how to do something already. If I need them to now how to do something already, I'll state that: "You need to know how to do blahblah before you try this tutorial".
Doing the tutorials also burns into me how these things are done. I can do the snowfall now in my sleep now, with a house full of people and a screaming 2 year old granddaughter just behind me.