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Solid and helpful documentation, should get you started off really quick! https://o3de.org/docs/api/gems/camera/ https://o3de.org/docs/api/gems/camera/ No, not

Solid and helpful documentation, should get you started off really quick! https://o3de.org/docs/api/gems/camera/ https://o3de.org/docs/api/gems/camera/ No, not really. Besides a bunch of video guides, there's barely anything that you can read. Highly disappointed with the launch, maybe it'll pick up later..?

jandrese 5y ago
Same. I went poking around the documentation area and found only YouTube videos in the examples area and noped right out. The API refs seem extremely terse as well. Just a handful of prototypes with no explanation as to what the parameters are or how to use them. For example: https://o3de.org/docs/api/frameworks/azgameframework/class_az_game_framework_1_1_game_application.html https://o3de.org/docs/api/frameworks/azgameframework/class_a...
- lostgame 5y ago
  If I can’t read your documentation - e.g. not video - I’m not interested. It’s the principle of the thing. Especially for coding. Sometimes I just want to copy and paste something rather than retyping it all.
  - jandrese 5y ago
    And the last thing I want to do is scrub through a video trying to find the part that I care about.
CobrastanJorji 5y ago
My favorite thing about Unity is how seriously they treated documentation and education. There are whole, elaborate tracks of educational material. It's really irritating that they walled a lot of it off behind a high paywall (seems awfully short sighted to charge up and coming developers $200+ to learn one aspect of how to use your product; I can feel the touch of an ambitious middle manager in that move), but what's free is still a great introduction, and the competition doesn't compare.
- gfxgirl 5y ago
  I have found the Unity docs to be atrocious. Missing info. Not well cross referenced. Important details buried as notes under other topics. Examples in docs out of date. Are you saying if I pay $200 I get access to better docs?
  - CobrastanJorji 5y ago
    I don't know; I didn't pay the $200. I just really liked the "Junior Programmer" track on Unity's "Learn" website and was very irritated when I found out that there were dozens of hours of followup videos and course materials associated with their "Unity Certification" product that I couldn't see. I will say that the thing that was most annoying about the videos I could see was that they were out of date. You had to install a previous version of Unity if you wanted to load the assets that the course used.
- runevault 5y ago
  Didn't they move all of the learning stuff to free last year? Initially on a temporary basis then permanently later in the year. I haven't looked at their learning stuff for a while but I swear I remember that.

jandrese 5y ago

Same. I went poking around the documentation area and found only YouTube videos in the examples area and noped right out. The API refs seem extremely terse as well. Just a handful of prototypes with no explanation as to what the parameters are or how to use them. For example: https://o3de.org/docs/api/frameworks/azgameframework/class_az_game_framework_1_1_game_application.html https://o3de.org/docs/api/frameworks/azgameframework/class_a...

lostgame 5y ago
If I can’t read your documentation - e.g. not video - I’m not interested. It’s the principle of the thing. Especially for coding. Sometimes I just want to copy and paste something rather than retyping it all.
- jandrese 5y ago
  And the last thing I want to do is scrub through a video trying to find the part that I care about.

CobrastanJorji 5y ago

My favorite thing about Unity is how seriously they treated documentation and education. There are whole, elaborate tracks of educational material. It's really irritating that they walled a lot of it off behind a high paywall (seems awfully short sighted to charge up and coming developers $200+ to learn one aspect of how to use your product; I can feel the touch of an ambitious middle manager in that move), but what's free is still a great introduction, and the competition doesn't compare.

gfxgirl 5y ago
I have found the Unity docs to be atrocious. Missing info. Not well cross referenced. Important details buried as notes under other topics. Examples in docs out of date. Are you saying if I pay $200 I get access to better docs?
- CobrastanJorji 5y ago
  I don't know; I didn't pay the $200. I just really liked the "Junior Programmer" track on Unity's "Learn" website and was very irritated when I found out that there were dozens of hours of followup videos and course materials associated with their "Unity Certification" product that I couldn't see. I will say that the thing that was most annoying about the videos I could see was that they were out of date. You had to install a previous version of Unity if you wanted to load the assets that the course used.
runevault 5y ago
Didn't they move all of the learning stuff to free last year? Initially on a temporary basis then permanently later in the year. I haven't looked at their learning stuff for a while but I swear I remember that.