The Seven Voyages Of SteveMar 3, 2023

Finally started watching a (long!) video about the UE Gameplay Ability System. I'd tried to get a sense for it from the written docs, but they just don't go into enough detail on how & why you might use it in practice. More like 1 paragraph on each bit & then "go read the Lyra source". Needing to watch a *3h* video has been a blocker on me bothering to dig more before now.

I don't think it's something I'll use on this game, but I can definitely see the utility. Just a lot of moving parts!

Show threadThe Seven Voyages Of SteveMar 3, 2023
Tech industry, please hire more writers. I can happily read docs for 3h and get much more out of them than watching a video for 3h. And while I'm watching the video, I'm making copious notes so that I don't have to watch the video *again* later to refresh my memory. If it was written down in the first place with good indexing I wouldn't have to do that. Video is such a crap way to document things.
Show threadIsaac Rabinovitch
@sinbad It isn't just the industry. The web is full how-to videos that take an hour to answer a question that a doc could answer in a few minutes of reading. But it takes a lot more mental effort to write a good doc (I used to do it for a living) than to babble at a camera.
Mar 4, 2023 at 5:02pmElk