Quote - I know and I agree. I used to draw extremely detailed pen and ink work....hair renders so detailed and passionately drawn you could count all the strands. I can no longer. I lost my hand at drawing as I lost my eye and passion for photography. My 3D interest began a long time ago when I wanted to integrate my photographic eye and lighting skills with my drawing skills. It was......or would have been the perfect match....had I been in the right place in the right place in time. I was NOT so got lost.

Poser was sort of a compromise allowing me to pretend to be a 3D artist....oh hell...it allowed me to try to grasp at the lie of being and ARTIST of any kind.. But realistically I haven't been an ARTIST in a long time. With Poser, I am simply playing with digital Barbie  and Ken dolls creating illusion others want to call art while realistically escaping from my troubled reality.

Yeah in a perfect world everything would work the way it is supposed to. I know noone creates content with the intent of it NOT working properly any more than i think softwate creators intentionally write flawed "broken as you pit it" software. I am speaking with a misbegotten naivete. We can hope.

I want to apologize to everyone for having brought this into this thread. Way off topic. Just a bit of the grit in my craw and gets me going in an ugly way. Frustration and anger of late have not been my friends. Forgive me.

No forgiveness needed... we are all there, to some degree. The frustration levels I've experienced echo yours, Shante... how many times have I screamed silently: "why doesn't this just bloody-well work??!?" ... then days go by and months and even years, and then finally i find that perfect friend who puts up with my pissing and moaning (Aussie for "complaining") and shows me how dynamic cloth works... and how classes in Poser Python (matmatic) work... and how to avoid buying-buying-buying because modeling in Blender is sweeter and infinitely more satisfying and you can make the item you want specifically instead of buying an approximation. (yes, I'm talking about you, KobaltKween ).

Not everyone has such a friend, unfortunately, and that is where these forums come in, where people try to help, with varying degrees of success. People who do help walk a tightrope of explaining too little/too much. I'd rather have too much information, generally... but a synopsis of key points is vital.

So, help. What is help to someone floundering? As much detail as possible or just key points so "I can finally get started"? I guess that depends.

But the base of all this is: developers of software are from another planet with completely different thought patterns and it's up to us to sort out how stuff works. Good job there's a manual for Poser. DS users aren't so lucky. :blink:

Monterey/Mint21.x/Win10 - Blender3.x - PP11.3(cm) - Musescore3.6.2

Wir sind gewohnt, daß die Menschen verhöhnen was sie nicht verstehen
[it is clear that humans have contempt for that which they do not understand] 

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