Beginner Guide To Everything!!!

[Deo]

Re: Beginner Guide To Everything!!!

Instead of putting a How To Mod somewhere hidden in the forums. . .

( to be missed when someone used the wrong keyword or phrase or lost/missed trying to go through 20+ Results, none of which pointed to the original other than with sarcasim)

. . . Perhaps we should look for or link to an information site (that isn't a forum) that has an easy to find Tutorial like Phabin's site.

A better one would be a collection of written guides and "how to"s in 1 read-only section that cannot be added to by anyone other than admin. That way there's less /cheer /praise spam that fills up the page to obscurity. It gets old going through those checking for any updates to a particular tutorial.

I've only read the first page and the last page of this thread. First page made me wonder why the heck this poll is even on this section of the forums. Thanks for clearing that up. . . or perpetuating ignorance. . . whichever you prefer.

[Monet]

Re: Beginner Guide To Everything!!!

Deo...

Have you even checked the sticky's on this forum? There is one labeled "Dat Links" or something like that.

There are already resources organized and lain out for people that don't know what they're doing. But, aftert answering the same question about Model Viewer 10 times in one week, it gets kinda old.

I'm not posting here to detere new modders. It will actually help them in the long run if they learnt to look for what they want.

[Deo]

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Yeah, I looked. First thing I did. I even checked again just now. Only tutorials I see are a link to Phabin's and Amadaun's coloring guide.

All the other links are for downloading tools or pre-made dats. I don't understand japanese, and I shouldn't be expected to, so an easy to understand or step by step tutorial on how to use those odd tools is still lacking.Taking a program and spending 24hours clicking randomly is not how I would prefer to learn how to do things.

I myself have spent hours looking up and down this forum and kilandor's and have yet to find an easy to understand tutorial for say, metaseqoia. So I'm left with coloring and alpha mapping. Have yet to see a guide on reflective surfaces, metalic mimicry, nor a basic understanding of making aesymetrical designs.

So far, it's pretty much been left off to "Practice using VRS." I can't even download it due to the current server problems on kilandor's site.

Most of us "noobs" keep asking because we've already ran up and down the forums using search and skimming through text finding nothing on specifically what we want to do.

So where is this "Beginner Guide to Everything" that this poll is about? nothing but a few stickies as far as I can tell.

[Monet]

Re: Beginner Guide To Everything!!!

How do you think WE learned?! I'd never touched a 3-D App before I started with FFXI mods!

You're going to sit here and whine about a lack of resources because you "shouldn't be expected" to do something that everyone before you did?! You are lazy and ungrateful.

The program has been translated for you. There are numerous links to "How To" articles. Posts have been made about fixing problems over and over.

Why don't YOU make the tutorials? Spend hours upon hours with the programs like some of us did and YOU type out the tutorial for a program like Meta. Then post it somehwere on here or on your own site, and even THEN, watch how many n00b questions about that same topic you read.

Meta tutorial : Open .MQO File > Select Point > Move Point > Save

Not much harder than that.

[Deo]

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Yeah, just figured that out after I posted. Pretty much all that needs to be said is: 'Figure it out, yourself. It's either stumbling in the dark or thumbing through archives upon archives. Both will take time and there's no point asking those that figured it out because they had it tough and easing the suffering of future generations is not their responsibility. All questions will be left in the dust and all requests shall be denied.'

As much as you don't like answering noob questions, couldn't you just ignore them? I'm sure they will figure this out on their own in time.

[raven]

Re: Beginner Guide To Everything!!!

well noobs realy arnt that bad good god we used to be noobs befor think of it that wayz

[PotentPotables]

Re: Beginner Guide To Everything!!!

Didn't this post die with the author?

Why u dig the bones?