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(Yep! These PDFs are about to be on trial; and I'm the Judge, Jury, Prosecutor, and Executioner!) ;)

I have never claimed to be a professional in the field of digital art. As for learning the lingo as you put it, I am doing precisely that; however, that take quite a bit of time as there is a lot to learn. I'm sorry if I offended you or anyone else, but you must understand that I am new to the digital arts, less than a year.

Hardly qualified then to be all you positioned yourself for IMHO.

You may note that most of the freely available tuts were created by 'beginners' as we tend to make them for ourselves to remember the way ... why is because there's not much out there. When I started trying to figure out these tools, there was next to nothing. A couple of vids on youtube and a couple of those who knew how; were helpful. Out of the hundreds or thousands that use these programs! It took me a long time to work out a few of those 'missing details' as you put it ... being half blind didn't help but you know ... figured if I could put together a few tutorials and save others a few months of work ... time usually meaning money to folk ... that would be nice. I'm temperamental ... nearly took down all my tuts because of your rant. But no I thought, I do have friends ... you are quite welcome to totally ignore any further tutorials I put up because they are not for you. I'm not changing how I do things.

As to my missing details ... as I make the items for the tutorials; I do cover all the steps for what I'm covering in the tutorial. Some of them are in parts ... I do assume people know to read part 1 before moving onto part 2. I do not try to repeat 'everything' in 'every' tutorial because that shouldn't be necessary.

Quote - ... edit ... Much of the time it is not that I missed it; rather that it is missing altogether from the tutorial.

Hardly a reason to be so negative about them all from everybody. Good golly. Most people are 'doing the work' while 'making the tut' ... my observation has been that where people have missed what happened; they have taken a step out of place. There is some order in the chaos of 3d.

Quote - As for the rant, it is more for personal preference than for telling others how they should make there tutorials. I'm sure that there are many of us who can understand the lingo, but there are those of use who would appreciate explanations of the meaning of certain terms. When I referred to the texting lingo, what I meant was that it appears to be text because from what I saw, it was a series of letters strung together to mean whole phrases. Perhaps it was not, but that's the way it looked to me.

I do not nor do I ever plan to "text messages" on phones and all that ...

If this is what you're referring to ...

It simply means ...

Step 1 ...

do it

Step 2 ....

do it

Step 3 ....

do it

 

Okay.

Quote - Please understand that I am not trying to offend or make an enemy of you or anyone else. I am only trying to find information that I can understand. 

As it stands for now, the PDF files I downloaded from DAZ 3D that are meant to be the official guide for DAZ Studio 4 Pro are WIPs, and many are woefully incomplete.

Yes ... programmers and people that write instructions are not necessarily the same people. And then to write so that most people understand what is being said is another ballgame. For those WIPs some of us in the old forum were invited to and trying to help with their creation. I've given up on the new forum and store ... they really need to have posts bumping threads. So I came over here to see what's happening and discovered your delightful post, not.

Quote - ... edit ... At any rate, please don't take my rant as an offense. Perhaps it was unprofessional of me to say what I did about your tutorial, but you should note that I did say that many of our fellow artists would probably understand it. It is more me than it is the tutorial. I comprehend things in a radically different way than most people. It's a quirk I have had all my life. Not that there is anything wrong with me, but I do think about things in odd ways. I try to keep thing literal instead of representational. 

Being literal has its place certainly. However when applied where it shouldn't be, like for some of those interpretations of the Book of Revelations; it makes no sense.

If I wrote a tutorial using the fullness of the English language which I'm quite adept at ... I rather doubt you or many others would comprehend much of it ... although I muse at times maybe somebody would pay me NOT to write tutorials lol ...

Bye.

Don't count me out on the fullness of the English language. I am quite adept with it myself. I know there are a few mistakes in my messages, however they are just typing errors that I did not catch in my proofreading.

I seem to recall a word processing application that was associated with the Renderosity forum pages. Although I normally do not need it, it can be useful when you are pressed for time. Also, I am not proficient in typing. I use the search and punch method, so I am pretty slow as far as typing is concerned.

Even so, and I don't mean this as an affront to you, I will continue my search for other tutorials on this subject. And if you insist, I'll take another look at yours. It has been suggested that I purchase the professional tutorial that is sold at DAZ 3D. Unfortunately, funds are scarce at this time; but as soon as I can do so I will purchase it. 

You do not have to reply to this unless you actually want to. In any case, thank you for caring to contact me to straighten me out. I sometimes need it, and I am not offended when I am criticized in the way you have done. I respect you for that, as you have been quite the proper lady, handling it in a civil manner.