Rockinawsome wrote:

I think you should change your name to oblivious..hehe
Just read the DM Guide and go through the demos/libraries...You'll find almost all you need in there...I just started 2 weeks ago and I've already almost completed building my first game =)...(Granted I spent hours each day doing it lol)

Really? thats awesome :-) ive been here for half a year and i'm still having lots of troubles with both of my games :(

Heh, my harddrive got stomped by a damn trojan about a month ago, so a nearly finished RPG and some experimental projects with different things going on...all bit the dust. I never back up anything, so the version of the RPG I have here is ancient. It really sucks to lose that much work. Not to mention - as a writer I lost an 80 page novel (it was poorly written so I don't feel too bad), some short stories, and some stuff for school that were heralded as masterpieces by my Comp I professor. There goes my freshman portfolio =(.

I think I would stab to death the person who hijacked the website that was made for a Mod for Dawn of War and who placed a trojan that attacked my comp as soon the page was loaded.

I've been playing with code for 2 weeks longer than you would be my guess, and I'm still pretty much in the dark about the finer points of it. Everything I know is self-taught; mostly the sum of trial and error, and the devotion of countless hours staring at stuff all the while intrigued yet all the while with that same sense of, "What the hell?"

Back in highschool I used to think that I would go into CS for a major in college. But then, after an A-hole of a Math Teacher who was later released for mental problems, I was largely unmotivated. I failed his class and my parents held me back a year; I became bored and grew angry at the system (e.g. how school was set up), because everytime I tried to study for something that was mathmatically related, my ADD brain shut it out. Today, I'm still struggling with math, not because I can't perform simple arithmatic (actually I do quite well, and many algebraic equations I can solve through a creative use of fundamental math without the knowledge ussually required), but because when I try to learn the same algebraic formulas that I learned in highschool and even in junior high, I become distraught and incredibly depressed. It's like looking at the face of all that's wrong with me, the sum of my failures. Some day, I'll sort it out, I'll find myself, but for now, coding DM is the only release I have outside my normal world which proves to myself, however minutely, that I'm capable of much more than is expected of me.

Well, I've gotten a little sidetracked here, but the point is - that there is more than one reason to code; that even if we suck, proving something for ourself (sound like the special olympics?) is the good that grows out of it.

Edit* I think that website was a fileplanet website so for anyone else out there looking for home made DOW Mods, stear clear of it.