Wiremod learning levels

[AzraelUK]

Originally Posted by Jat Goodwin

Well wiremod is so big and there's so much to do with it that I think there should only be 3 levels of learning.

Level 1:
The stuff you make annoys people.

Level 2:
You now put decent research into your contraptions and the stuff you make wows people.

Level 3:
You will spend weeks working on a amazing project that can do crazy things but when you show it off people go "meh" and run back to look at the thing that the level 2 guy built.

Level 3 people never attract large crowds on servers

I hate being level 3.

(I still wanna finish my mandelbrot drawer though. Should be relatively easy with E2, but building it with discrete gates I got to about 75 gates and gave up.)

[Whodunnit]

peopel cant appreciate things fully when they cant understand how it works.

[Gizmo]

Just my opinion here, but I find GPU a lot easy to program than CPU

[CFSworks]

Originally Posted by Whodunnit

i dont think GPU should be so high

Originally Posted by Xandaros

GPU is not as hard as CPU

Originally Posted by Gizmo

Just my opinion here, but I find GPU a lot easy to program than CPU

The GPU is actually the CPU, plus several extra instructions used for rendering graphics.
The main difference is the instruction flow: A GPU expects a dexit instruction, then reiterates at the entry point for the next frame.

[AzraelUK]

And also the ease of writing a string to the screen, for example.

[Talishmar]

I think I'm 3.5.

[Hitman271]

The Gpu cannot be compared to the Cpu in terms of "ease" and "documentation". The gpu was designed to put things on-screen and update that screen. The cpu was made to handle loads of information from the outside world then send it back, processed.

The cpu in no way trumps the gpu in screen and graphics.

The gpu in no way trumps the cpu in processing and outside-world functions, the gpu can't even write to the outside world in any way.

Doing very basic things with gpu, is made to be easy for a novice, like putting text out to screen. But for an advanced coder for it, the things you can do with the gpu outmatch a cpu's graphical interface by any measure.

Just look at the matrixing examples in the gpu folder. the cpu would have to make its own matrix then send it out, pixel by pixel, in a very slow manner. The gpu automatically does both the matrix and the pixelation.

So in my opinion, the gpu is in fact harder than cpu, for those who don't simply draw "lol" with it

[Teh1337bix]

I can never be Master because my GPU is broke, just shows a blank screen and lags mah comp to death. Also, my CPU is broke, but I still got up to level 7 before I broke it with a division.

[Free Fall]

Just triped over this thread, and now I wonder, if, to get level 10, you need to know about CPU-Interrupts too, as this is one of the more advanced and yet hardest to find things.

And another thing i wonder about, is, if understanding the CPU and GPU is enough to get those levels. Like: I understand how registers and all that stuff works, but I never made anything with that knowledge, because I had no ideas...

If it is enough, I might be Grandmaster, if not, I'm stuck somewhere between level 7 and 10.

[Jat Goodwin]

You forgot lvl 11, when you stop playing gmod and become the strange admin that still pokes around on the community.