Quote - The beginning to all these problems with Daz, the original canonical mistake, come from the installation process. The user don't know what that is installed or where it was installed. And now, when they finally are on their way to remedy this (why took it so long?), then they make the same mistake again, by not documenting the Dson installation process.

You are basically asked to transfer something you don't know what it is or where it is, convert it and place a new bunch of undocumented files somewhere you don't know.

 

I agree that DAZ is guilty of assuming that computer users have at least basic knowledge of how their system operates.  Unfortunately, many who use Poser and D|S are the "bread goes in/Toast comes out" type of users.

Let's face it, 3D art/modeling/animation is not a field for those unwilling to learn.  However, there are a large contingent of Poser/DS users that are exactly that way.  They have little knowledge of how Poser/DS operates, and less motivation to find out.

It is easy to make the presumption that people, at the least know how to keep their systems up to date.  Sheesh, people are told that this process requires Poser9 or PoserPro2012 and there are still Poser users trying to install it on Poser 7/8 or PP2010.  Never mind the fact that, evidently, a large portion of Poser users haven't bothered to update to SR3... or update their Windows installs.

Again, DAZ gives the users too much credit.  Then they get flamed when the users screw up.  Maybe one day DAZ will presume that users are idiots and ... well, they'll probably get flamed for that as well.

Kendall