Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL


Subject: Calling (almost) all Pro Pack documentation issues!

Nosfiratu opened this issue on Apr 06, 2001 ยท 8 posts


Crescent posted Sat, 07 April 2001 at 1:12 AM

I'm having problems with the documentation already. I'm going through the Set Up Room area and it is driving me nuts. Instructions are: "Do this, do that." They're not always clear on HOW to do it. I jumped to the Wormy tutorial to try to work through my confusion. Okay, create the hip bone, chest bone, etc. Should the bones I create say "Hip, Chest, etc." or do I rename them later and if so, how? Creating the tailbones took at least 7 tries. Tries 1 - 3 had the tailbone connected to the head bone. (Wormy the Butthead.) Tries 4 and 5 repositioned the hip bone. Try 6 or 7 finally worked. I'm going to practice some more, but I think I finally figured out how to create the tailbones without messing up the hip. Something to the effect of: "Click the hip to select it, then start the tailbone outside the range of the hip bone" would have made it clearer. Where is the Next Group button as referenced on page 78? The couple of minutes to create Wormy was over 30 plus expletives. Also, please don't assume that we're Poser Pros. Some of us are buying this because we're not experts. I didn't even know where the Joint Editor Palette was until I had to hunt for it. Maybe you list it somewhere else, but I jumped to the Wormy tutorial from the beginning of the Set Up Room chapter because I was having problems understanding some of the information and figured it would make more sense if I worked through it. It's a small thing, but it was frustrating. I still can't figure out how to select polygons to put into groups but I'll bash my head against it more tomorrow. On the plus side, now that I've mostly forced Wormy into submission, the overall process is much clearer.