mattbaby opened this issue on Mar 03, 2004 ยท 27 posts
DCArt posted Wed, 03 March 2004 at 1:48 PM
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>>In my expeprience as a technical writer, the Poser5 manual appears to be written as a series of afterthoughts. Nothing in any section is ever completed. Read some and the next thing is- for more information go to chapter xxxx. Hence I can see the frustration of anyone attempting to find answers. That is what I find most frustrating about the manual, is having to look in several different places for information on a complete process. It is more a reference manual than a learning manual ... which I think is the sad case for most software manuals. That is one of the reasons that third party books are so popular. I'm also a technical writer by profession ... and have been working on a Face Room tutorial that is **very** thorough and takes things through in a "hands on" type manner in the order that you use the face room features. So far, it's taken 25 pages just to go through prepping photos, loading photos, and adjusting feature points to create the texture and head. I still have to cover all of the Face Shaping Tool morphs (including examples of all of them) and the morph putty tool, so I suspect it will be at least 60-70 pages by the time it's done. Problem is how to distribute it ... the 25 pages is already over 3 megs in PDF format, so I might have to break it up into smaller sections. The tutorial uses a couple of photos from www.3d.sk in the screen grabs, so I still have to check with him to see if I can use his photos in the screen shots. But here's an example of the face I created in the face room while going through the steps ... just to show y'all that you can do wonders with Poser 5 if you take things in the right order.