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making a game right now, I literally cannot imagine making it without the tooling that I generate every day it's just grunt work. I made a thing that lofts two curves together in a certain way so I didn't have to manually repair the mesh every time. probably saved 20 hours of the dumbest labour

Our game plays so much nicer now that models are cracked at glsl. We can just do things! It’s really upped what we’re able to do with the art we spent thousands of dollars on

plus if part of the "art" is in the friction through learning by doing, it's not like you can't just, like, talk to the computer to learn about the underlying math behind something in a less-complicated context *and still get to play with things*

totally! if you ask people what the best way to learn <3D modelling> would be in an ideal world, they'd answer that futzing around with an infinitely patient mentor who knows everything would be super useful and like: that's true! isn't this a wonderful magic

I think people's opinions on this shit have been negatively polarized by marketing and casual contact. they hear developers whose entire careers are built out of integrations and boilerplate talk about how the thing spitting out code takes all the friction away from their jobs and get mad