Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL


Subject: What do you need to learn most?

DCArt opened this issue on Jan 20, 2004 ยท 49 posts


DCArt posted Wed, 21 January 2004 at 8:23 AM

These are great responses! I can see that I have my work cut out for me ... but I'll try my best to accomodate some of them ... it may take months to do all of them ;-) >> What do I want to learn? How to not waste my time reading all the posts, exploring new ideas and looking for new freebies, and how to focus on actually using poser to create more images! Ditto on that one!! >> Please, an idiot's guide to the Material room LOL!!! You know, sometimes I think that material room would be a book in itself ... it's deep, really deep. But I'll see if I can work at it in bits. >> Deep Paint 3d - I think a step by step on one of the Millennium Unimesh figurs would be a tremendous benefit to the community. I know that Cath at Mec4D started something along that line with her animated tutorials ... have you checked those out yet? (Which brings up a question ... do you like the animated format?) >> The Tailor - a step by step on using the tailor would be very helpful as well. I open it... I try to use it... and I get squat. Here's a quick tip on that ... try this ... Pick (or create) a CR2 that has full body morphs. It doesn't matter if they are set to 0 or 1, it works either way. Load the character and the clothing in the Tailor, and then select the Full Body Morph that you want to fit to. (The Tailor recommends that you do one FBM at a time ... it gets nasty otherwise ;-). Then generate the morphs in the clothing. When The Tailor prompts you for a name, it might help to name the morph slightly different than the FBM, so that you prevent crosstalk (unless you actually want the crosstalk in there). For example, if you want V3's Voluptuous FBM, name the clothing morph Voluptuous1. Hope that helps somewhat! >> You could just tell them how to actually use the set up room without going into too much detail about fixing joints and so on. I will admit, joints are not my strongest point. I need to read the good Dr's tutorial again. However, I can do a quick tutorial on conforming a figure in the setup room. That feature is very cool. 8-) >> I'd like to know for instance how to rotate UVMapping. Right now I'm doing it be Trial-and-Error-and-Error-and-Error.... Yeah, it's not always the same, because the style of the clothing makes a difference. It is a lot of trial and error, and it would be nice to do it visually. >> What I really need to learn... is how to forgive and forget... and how to be at peace with what I have and where I am in life. Heh ... that's a tough one. But you know what, I think it comes with age. 8-)