Can anyone post Poser7 documentation so I can peruse while waitng for my turn to DL.
I bought Poser6 as a complete newbie and the tutorial refers to pages in the manual that have nothing to do with the tutorial at hand. The very first reference was wrong, making the tutorial pdf absolutly useless! I bought "Practical Poser6" hoping it would help, but it was just as useless as the EF tutorials.(same issue about incorrect references)
Right now, all I know about poser is trial and error, I got some great body morphs to work but can't cloth them. ARRGGH"|!

PS how DO you get clothes to fit a morphed body? I've wasted a lot of money on junk that doesn't do it

Sign me :  Frustrated

I don't think they can repost the manual anywhere, due to copyright restrictions and bandwidth limitations. this is the first negative comment I've heard about deecey's book. I heard hundreds of bad comments about shams' book, however.

Yes, Im sure theres some sort of copyright issues (Im in printing) but Im hoping the tutorials in Poser 7 are accurate, The Pracitcal Poser 6 book ilooks good (i read it anyhow) but a good tutorial, especially a third party book I paid a lot of money for, should explain things without making you refer to the product manaul . Product manuals are notoriously horrible. you should see the mess that came with Flash.

Take a look at the tutorials on this site if you're interested in clothing.  Personally I use dynamic cloth for most everything, and I got all of my base understanding from the tuts here.  I even use it for things like socks and panties/underware becuase you can start with the stander figure and then let the cloth "grow/shrink" to fit unusual or non-suported morphs.  It takes more time but in many cases the quality is much higher on anything that is made of cloth.

The tutorials with Poser 7 actually refer to Poser Figure Artist.
Since I have been using Poser since version 2 I haven't actually checked the content but they look the same as the previous tutorials with very little (if any) changes specific to Poser 7.

The reference manual is not much different from the version included with Poser 6, just a few additions for the new features.

I am afraid using Poser is somthing you will have to learn by trial and error, so many people want to use for some many diffrent reasons, with so many different background, and with so many different expectations that writing a book to explain it all would be impossible. The online tutorial are very helpfull (the set from dr. Geep is a very good example but certainly not the only one). This forum is also a good place to ask specific questions, although many answers will soon rise way above the capabilities of the casual user (and are often incomprehensible even for the experts).

With regards to fitting clothing to a morphed figure the best tool is Wardrobe Wizard from PhilC. It does work very well. It also allows you to use clothing that wasn't designed for the figure. If you want to really use clothing you will find that there are many tools available for handling clothing, all them have their uses and soon you will use them all (if you can afford them). To get the look you want you have to try all of the tools and you will get frustrated along the way but in the end you'll get the look and you'll learn a lot while trying.

Poser 7 adds to that by providing a means to handle the unavoidable small poke throughs.

I'm a manual reader (2,to3 times) before using a software.
Do you think that a printed manual will be available soon.
I don't mind paying 40$ or 50$ for a reference manual

Michel

here's some reading for you...

http://fnproductions.net/graphics/tutorial/faq/

Just about all the poser 5 & 6 stuff is applicable in poser 7.  I've started putting up some poser 7 stuff as well.  There are links to other faqs and tutorials which will help you a lot in poser 7 too.