cyberscape opened this issue on Jan 19, 2005 ยท 76 posts
Qualien posted Wed, 19 January 2005 at 3:42 PM
User-selectable front-ends/modes, such as "Newbie" with tons and tons of "what would you like to do now; A/B/C/..." wizards and popups (this could be an optional add-in for training beginners); Beginner, with lots of tool-tips and and prominent descriptive menus; Medium, for semi-proficient users; and Expert mode with most tools minimized, and lots of hot-keys and memory dot-type macro options. Yes! A "Playhouse" version or a Playhouse mode, where total beginners (who do not know if they want to invest the time to become experts) can have fun and get started by doing simple things like posing pre-dressed figures in pre-constructed scenes. P4 provided something like that with its dressed figures, but as Poser has become more powerful and renders more realistic, that has gone bye-bye. Beginners should have a fun way to get and THEN get on the learning curve if they want to. That would and that would increase the audience/marketplace for Poser stuff. Right now, you have to learn about conforming clothes and too much other stuff just to play around. Also, I would do away with the Library Palettes and convert to a more Windows-like file menu structure for loading props, etc. Why not? Photoshop and most other serious CG programs have this.