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Question about Skin Builder 8

dalemrickertdalemrickert Posts: 23
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I'm just starting to get a handle on using Skin Builder 8. The "learning curve" is a challenge to say the least. It's biggest shortage is a decent manual. Most of the "learning curve" takes place on the Skin page. There isn't any sort of description telling what the sliders do, or how one effects another. The top three sliders (Pale Texture, Light Texture, Medium Ttexture) are confusing... How about names like brightness, saturation, etc.. They are very tricky to use because changing one will also limit the effect of the others. Any help (especially from one of the devlopers) would be greatly appreciated.

I searched for and watched the one video on YouTube and that person hadn't even figured the setting out. He did mention how you really need to have this page (tab) finished before proceding because changing things on other tabs will reset your work on this page.

Also, what happened to saving "recipes" ???  When I finally reach the last tab and am about to save, there's no way of saving a copy (recipe) of one's settings so you can load them in later. I have to make 3x5 cards listing all of the settings that I've changed. To load and alter those settings for something like another character... I have to go in and alter all of the settings on the Skin page as well as on other tabs.

The lack of "good" documentation... and being able to save things makes a "great" program just another program that adds to my list of frustrations...

Oh... One final thing... Can someone tell me why DAZ designed things such that you can not contact a vendor?... Are they just trying to keep their vendors from getting too many questions?... Instead of being able to contact the "people in the know", you have to ask the DAZ people for help... and then sit and wait... and wait... and wait... and wait for an answer. I remember about 12 or 13 years ago (yeah, I've used it that long) I could call and speak to a live tech person without much wait. Do you get a feeling that things in this world just keep getting worse?.... LOL

Thanks for taking the time out of your day to read this :-)

Dale R.

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  • Catherine3678abCatherine3678ab Posts: 8,316

    dalemrickert said:

    I'm just starting to get a handle on using Skin Builder 8. The "learning curve" is a challenge to say the least. It's biggest shortage is a decent manual. Most of the "learning curve" takes place on the Skin page. There isn't any sort of description telling what the sliders do, or how one effects another. The top three sliders (Pale Texture, Light Texture, Medium Ttexture) are confusing... How about names like brightness, saturation, etc.. They are very tricky to use because changing one will also limit the effect of the others. Any help (especially from one of the devlopers) would be greatly appreciated.

    I searched for and watched the one video on YouTube and that person hadn't even figured the setting out. He did mention how you really need to have this page (tab) finished before proceding because changing things on other tabs will reset your work on this page.

    Also, what happened to saving "recipes" ???  When I finally reach the last tab and am about to save, there's no way of saving a copy (recipe) of one's settings so you can load them in later. I have to make 3x5 cards listing all of the settings that I've changed. To load and alter those settings for something like another character... I have to go in and alter all of the settings on the Skin page as well as on other tabs.

    The lack of "good" documentation... and being able to save things makes a "great" program just another program that adds to my list of frustrations...

    Oh... One final thing... Can someone tell me why DAZ designed things such that you can not contact a vendor?... Are they just trying to keep their vendors from getting too many questions?... Instead of being able to contact the "people in the know", you have to ask the DAZ people for help... and then sit and wait... and wait... and wait... and wait for an answer. I remember about 12 or 13 years ago (yeah, I've used it that long) I could call and speak to a live tech person without much wait. Do you get a feeling that things in this world just keep getting worse?.... LOL

    Thanks for taking the time out of your day to read this :-)

    Dale R.

    Of course, one could consider going to the thread that the Vendor started and communicates with their customers on ;-)

    https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/204101/skin-builder-8-merchant-resource-for-genesis-8-female-commercial#latest

     

  • dalemrickertdalemrickert Posts: 23

    Thanks for that idea... however, I've already read all that's there. My hope is that more people might find this post and might have more success. FIngers crossed...:-)

  • Catherine3678abCatherine3678ab Posts: 8,316

    No, what usually happens with threads like this is a mod wanders by and closes it in favour of the PAs thread ;-)

    A "user's guide" does come with the product.

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