Forum: Virtual World Dynamics


Subject: VWD 2.2 Release - Installation and usage thread

VWD3D opened this issue on Dec 23, 2019 ยท 102 posts


StarLabz posted Thu, 26 December 2019 at 4:45 PM

i totally agree and will hold on to this as i can see its quiet a bit more than daz's dForce and is like marvelous designer quick. i do see the opportunities this script provides, and i really hope these tutorials wont take forever to get out there. Ive been fiddling with it since the issues and it's way more difficult than i thought.. i know it will get better by using it. so far it can animate but the clothing is seriously too jagged on the character as when it falls on the skin it rips though and ive tinkered with a lot of settings including using the cloth assistant.... i used really stiff and still when i animate its like dropping a weighted cloth on the skin and even with a good distance it still has serious rip through...when i watch the vids that are out there this doesn't happen and its real smooth, which is great for those that have the right settings, but a headache for those that have to sit in front of a small script window with 20-30 things jto tinker with just to get the clothing right for 20-40 minutes, per item. this is what i am getting at. The manual is seriously crazy! this is why there should have been already in place vid tutorials to set up clothing quickly or an auto setting you can pick from. no offense, but i don't have time to read a manual while trying to understand the actual script at the same time. Even if i can understand most of what is written in the manual it's still way to wordy for something that in my opinion could have been easy to explain without trying to confuse the user with techno jargon. Like the Vertices Selection: it looks like a figging calculator, and its hard to understand how to use this tool and after even looking at the tut that is kinda available with poor english (no offence) i wanted to throw the computer against the wall. i can see the versatility that can be used with that, but man...what a headache trying to tweak that over and over and over again, just like the force and springs.....too many unknowns and how to use it.....

mainly i think what has me up in arms is that i see that this could be one of the best products on the market but you failed to provide a REAL how-to, but instead spent time on promo vids....not good business imho. Like zBrush which i am really good at, they make both. promo and tut. this is your second version so there should have been time to really show what this thing can do by instructional videos already completed before release. People don't want to sit and read a manual anymore, they want real-time-vids to show how to use each feature; which there are a lot to use in your script. i really tried with the manual, but i don't want to nit pick there, its just way to uninformative of how to really USE the product in real time setting. please forgive my argument this isn't personal but i really wanted this thing to be user friendly and not have to really sit down and try to learn a new language...just dont have that type of time any more. time is money.