General Manual Error - ALL DIAGRAM IMAGES SHOULD BE NUMBERED for easy reference! Just titling *some of* them is not sufficient, nor accurate.
From the "Quick Start" manual,
Page 2 - The figure displayed in the AS interface is from Version 6. Version 7 shows LIZ, a New Character.
Page3 - OMISSION:
To select a fill color, click the Fill color square to open a color palette.
Should read:
To select a fill color, simply choose a color from the
Swatches color box. You can change your color choices from the .Default.png by clicking the down arrow.
Page 3 - OMISSION:
Hold the Shift key while dragging to force the shape to be a circle, rather than an oval.
Should include the sentence: Hold the
Shift and
Alt keys together while dragging to start your circle from the center.
Page 4 - OMISSION:
You can also change the color of the outline by changing the Stroke color in a similar manner.
Should read:
To change the color of the outline, you can hold down the
Alt key and select a color from the
Swatches color box to change the Stroke color.
Page 8 - OMISSION:
From the Style panel, select a brown color for the Fill color as shown below.
Should read:
From the
Style window,
click on the fill color box to bring up the Color Picker, and select a brown color for the Fill color
as shown in Fig. '1.2.3' (omitting "below." The image is not "below" the text - another reason diagram images need to be numbered...)
Page 9 - Duplicate of Fig. 1.2.4, the Add Point image.
Page 11 - OMISSION:
After creating the hills, choose Edit > Select None to deselect any selected points.
Should read:
After creating the hills, choose Edit > Select None or
hit the Enter key. (This instruction does not appear until page 21 - Should be given from the start...)
Page 11 - INCORRECT SYNTAX:
The Style window will display the settings for the fill: its color, its line width and color, and the styles used to display it. To remove settings that you have used in previous projects, click the Reset button to reset the fill colors to their default settings.
Should read:
The
Style window displays the Fill settings: the color, line width and line color, and the styles used to display it.
Click the Reset button to restore the Style default settings.
Page 12 - INCORRECT SETTINGS/POOR EXPLANATION
Following the Gradient settings, when you click "OK" after selecting the Gradient settings, the colors are upside down...Either the Gradient settings instructions should be reversed, with brown selected first, then green, OR (better) there should be a diagram image displaying the results of the green on the bottom and brown on top, to introduce the next *corrected* instruction.
Page 12 - OMISSION:
You’ll notice a line with a filled circle at one end, which represents the start color of the gradient (green in our example). The empty circle at the other end represents the end color of the gradient (brown in our example).
There needs to be a diagram of the backwards gradient, showing the Gradient Direction Line. The sentence,
You can adjust this indicator to control the blending and direction of the gradient.
Should read:
You can adjust this indicator
by clicking on the empty circle to control the blending and direction of the gradient,
and clicking on the solid circle to move the gradient.
Page 22 - ERROR:
Select a brown fill color from the Style panel.
Should read: Select a brown fill color from the
Swatches color box.
Page 24 - OMISSION:
...if you want to get rid of a point, but it’s too far back to use undo...
How many steps back does the Undo key go???
Page 24 - OMISSION:
To reset your view to its original position, select the View > Reset command from the menu bar.
Should include:
Or press the Esc. key.
Page 26 - OMISSION:
Choose File > Preview to see how the treetop looks.
Should read:
There are several ways to see how your treetop looks. You can choose
File>Preview, or click
Ctrl+R, choose
"Preview" from the drop-down
Display Quality menu button beneath the workspace window, or uncheck the
Show Shapes box next to the
Display Quality menu button.
NOTE:(This button has NO "tool tip" label, and is not described anywhere in the manual that I have yet seen... It is next to a square shape with one red point in the corner that seems to do nothing...)
Page 34 - POOR INSTRUCTION:
With the Bone Strength tool active, click and drag side-to-side on each of the bones in Frank’s skeleton to adjust its strength.
Should read:With the Bone Strength tool active,
click and drag left to decrease, or right to increase the bone strength of a selected bone.
The "new" default Project Settings are 240 frames, which is WAY too long, and the Quick Start does not explain about frame adjustment until the end. There should be a paragraph somewhere near the beginning either telling how to adjust the Animation length, or reset the default Project Settings...Yeah, users can EVENTUALLY figure it out, but a Quick Start Guide should help you get started quickly, and that means getting rid of the approx. 170 frames of timeline you never use during those tutorials...
This is just what I found in the Quick Start. I've more from the main manual, but want to go back to playing with ASP7. I've spent enough time for a while documenting manual errors...
Later!