What is DCing for you?

[Hypermodder]

For me it's kinda job.
I can't stop it! :P

....and its fun!

[STM1993]

DCing is not exactly the three options there for me...

DCing for me is tiring work, but so is spriting, because a good piece would need a lot of time, commitment and patience. And I'm not someone who has good practical ability, more of theory. I don't have much of the requirements to be a good DCer/Spriter. But the magic comes in from the fact that, once you finish the work, you'd feel great.



I'd say, DCing is something that would test your overall ability:

1. Practical
You do up the data by yourself, and test it out for errors.

2. Theory
Calculations and estimations come here, so that you can make the character as perfect as possible rather than just an abstract character with a lot of glitches and possibly do not fit with the sprite that is to be used for the character.

3. Patience/Commitment
This is the hardest part of DCing. If you don't have this, you can never DC.



Practical and Theory comes together. You have to understand the mechanics of DCing. If you don't, you do not have any idea how to make the data, or any idea how the data could be made.

[Silverthorn]

There are a bunch of people around that basically quit DCing in the normal sense: to edit/create characters/weapons/etc.
The theoretical DCing is more thinking about algorithms and how they can be implemented in DC language. Often, they never find their way into a dat-file...

This is what I associate with the theoretical thing. But good points you made there. Just that I think it's a little too late for editing this poll => deleting the old results & creating it (again)...

[sadbhav]

Rly depends on my mood, usually I am on the top one mood

[MH-Razen]

I defenitly took the theoretic part. I always tryed to get deeper in code, guys like DarkLord, BRad, Jackie may remember my very first topics about DC where I wanted to know the missing brackets I couldn't find out myself

Today it's still like this - to help in DC forum is just awesome for me, not if somebody ask what opoint is, but if someone request a new complex thing it's just cool to think of a way.

If I would have more time I would also create more stuff, but in my live at the moment there's 0 chance for this