hang on hang on

let me try and sort this out.

it's crippled to ME. as in, the material room is something I can't use. lacking the materials, I've not done much with poser in sometime.

maybe someone can help me out here ... I'm trying to explain here ok?

 

having someone elses work in mine is something I try to avoid. eg I wanted a desk, so I picked up tools, learnt woodwork and made one. the earphone socket on my walkman broke, so I learnt to repair circuits. I wanted to show off my ideas so I learnt to model.

right now, I can't texture. I can't learnt cos frankly, and this is a real admission, I can't even get a column of figures to add up the same twice. program a shader? I might as well move to the moon.hey, build you a door, a brick wall, a computer, plumb your house, even change a tire - mainly with no teaching, I just picked it up as I went along, no problems, thats simple. I can see how that works and I can just do it.  (and it's to code.. I do good solid work)

in other apps, I can mix colors and effects such as simple built in metal shaders etc. can't do that in poser, the mat room does not allow it. it's program from scratch or baby talk. theres no middle ground.

to use an anology, I walk into a paint shop and ask for a tube of paint. they hand me one, I can then mix that how I want.

in poser, I ask for a tube of paint. I'm handed the keys to a chemical plant. thats it. find your own way. and once you've done that, then you can mix it...and get on with it. oh wait, you still have to mix the other paints to do that...

I can't mix my paint up in poser. I have to rely on others and thats alien to me. so. right now, posers losing it's appeal to me.

I was trying to just tell anyone why I'm basically out of it now. not try and start any fights.

oh I missed the really evil part.

*I can see how the shaders work in general. I can follow them. I just don't know how they work.. I don't have the basic math to know what they symbols mean... but I follow the gist if thats the right word