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Printable User Guide/Manual

inspired_art_86a3f09735inspired_art_86a3f09735 Posts: 131
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Is there a complete User Guide/Reference/Manual to version 4.20 that is printable?

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  • SpaciousSpacious Posts: 481

    To the best of my knowledge there is no complete userguide/reference manual for any version of Daz Studio.

  • robertswwwrobertswww Posts: 790

    It looks like the last printable Daz Studio User Guide was for Daz Studio version 4.6 (link below). Hopefully, they will update the User Manual for DS 4.20 and also for DS version 5 when it is released.

    DAZ Studio 4.x User Guide (PDF - 22.7 MB)
    http://docs.daz3d.com/lib/exe/fetch.php/public/software/dazstudio/4/userguide/daz_studio_4_x_user_guide.pdf

  • inspired_art_86a3f09735inspired_art_86a3f09735 Posts: 131

    robertswww said:

    It looks like the last printable Daz Studio User Guide was for Daz Studio version 4.6 (link below). Hopefully, they will update the User Manual for DS 4.20 and also for DS version 5 when it is released.

    DAZ Studio 4.x User Guide (PDF - 22.7 MB)
    http://docs.daz3d.com/lib/exe/fetch.php/public/software/dazstudio/4/userguide/daz_studio_4_x_user_guide.pdf

    So the user manual is only 96 pages? That's nothing for a very complex program! 

  • Matt_BrownMatt_Brown Posts: 176

    robertswww said:

    It looks like the last printable Daz Studio User Guide was for Daz Studio version 4.6 (link below). Hopefully, they will update the User Manual for DS 4.20 and also for DS version 5 when it is released.

    DAZ Studio 4.x User Guide (PDF - 22.7 MB)
    http://docs.daz3d.com/lib/exe/fetch.php/public/software/dazstudio/4/userguide/daz_studio_4_x_user_guide.pdf

    Thanks for this link. Even though it is small and quite old, it does a very good job of explaining some of tha basics that I had missed.

  • laststand@runbox.comlaststand@runbox.com Posts: 866

    Unfortunately, the time of the written word has passed.

  • tfistfis Posts: 129

    his x said:

    Unfortunately, the time of the written word has passed.

    Didnt read it.

  • leonardo_3285321dleonardo_3285321d Posts: 96

    I suggest you the masterclass with jay instead of the manual

  • TaozTaoz Posts: 9,940

    There may be one in the works:

    https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/comment/7966916

  • LarryLarry Posts: 16
    They should do a complete update to there manual. Giving detail use of every feature in the software has and how to use it. It's great that they can produce the software but they should have a updated manual to support it as well.
  • crosswindcrosswind Posts: 6,915

    Larry said:

    They should do a complete update to there manual. Giving detail use of every feature in the software has and how to use it. It's great that they can produce the software but they should have a updated manual to support it as well.

    Agreed to some extent... but that'll require human resources, knowledge, enthusiasm, persistence, even some funding, so on and so forth...

    Seemingly people prefer to using ChatGPT nowadays... probably only some old timers incl. me are still willing to read long PDF or sth. like that.

  • DartanbeckDartanbeck Posts: 21,550

    crosswind said:

    Larry said:

    They should do a complete update to there manual. Giving detail use of every feature in the software has and how to use it. It's great that they can produce the software but they should have a updated manual to support it as well.

    Agreed to some extent... but that'll require human resources, knowledge, enthusiasm, persistence, even some funding, so on and so forth...

    Seemingly people prefer to using ChatGPT nowadays... probably only some old timers incl. me are still willing to read long PDF or sth. like that.

    ...and as we've discovered for Carrara, it requires a Good Software writer. No just anyone can take on such a task.

    I printed out an old one back in 2006 or 7... somewhere in there that is 300 pages (compared to Carrara's 863 which was already written by the previous company Eovia except for the new Daz 3d changes) and hardbound it myself. I'm glad to have it even though it's completely outdated now. I just like books - and especially nostalgic owners manuals of software I love.

    I also printed and bound the Bryce 5 manual. So whatever time frame that was, was when I did all of this. 

     

    Since then I've purchased The Carrara Studio 3 and 5 Handooks from Amazon. I love these manuals and I'm bummed that 'the written word' is becoming such a bygone era.

     

    Jay's Masterclass is very much like an owner's manual - so I agree that that's the place to go if you really want to peruse a Daz Studio Owner's Manual. And his WP Guru YouTube channel is another wealth of Daz Studio help and wisdom.

    Along with the Masterclass, the rest of Daz 3d's Help Tutorials section can be pretty helpful too.

  • DartanbeckDartanbeck Posts: 21,550

    Digging into it a bit... yeah. My DAZ|STUDIO ARTIST GUIDE is for D|S 1.7  (Win XP/Mac OS 10 era)

    Cool book though! LOL

    The Carrara manual I printed out was Carrara 7 User Guide 2008 Revision G

  • Silver DolphinSilver Dolphin Posts: 1,607

    Daz Studio wiki manual would be very nice but it would expose too many bugs!!! LOL

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