judyk opened this issue on Mar 26, 2005 ยท 17 posts
Erlik posted Sat, 26 March 2005 at 4:59 PM
Coldrake, I'm not a programmer as such, but I am the assistant editor-in-chief of a computer magazine, so I know at least a little bit of what I'm talking about. If you have a heap of code which does something, but you have parts for which you don't know what they are exactly doing or whether they are doing anything*, it is easier to start everything from scratch than try to understand the relations of the existing pieces of code. Nobody said it was faster. But if you know what you're doing, you'll get a cleaner and possibly better documented program. And I repeat: nobody said it would be faster. So, please... * If you remember that thread where Doc Mojo said there were pieces of code inside Bryce that could produce much better looking clouds... That code was never activated. Otherwise we wouldn't have just the flat looking cloud plane and volumetric materials.
-- erlik