Hello,
I am creating a set of tutorials using Zscripts.
I would like for the Tutorials to be as effective as possible, so that the new user/ student will be able to absorb the technique more by letting the user follow the steps at the same time as the Zscript is in a pause mode.
While the Zscript tutorial is running, I would like to have small pause points where the user can try out the technique, and then be able to press either a Resume Zscript button, or a Replay last segment button.
Example:
I make a tutorial about modeling a lizzard with Zspheres.
In the beginning of the tutorial I model The torso, and begin makeing the limbs.Then the Zscript says “Now , you try”, pauses, Locks the tool’s and textures that the Zscript is useing, and lets the user make his own Zsphere torso and the begin the limbs with his own Zspheres to mimic what the script is doing…
User cannot modify the locked tools or textures, so when the user presses the resume button, the Zscript can resume creating the lizzard without starting over…
Perhaps have the Zscript, clone the locked tool , so that the user can jump in at any point to try the method on the example model. this would make so that the user can skip parts that they already know how to do and focus on the points of the tutorial that they want to learn.
It would be nice if it Purged old Ztools, and textures from the early steps in the tutorial to save memory.
Anyways…
I have been going through the Zbrush 2 Help Zscripts, form the Help manual on one computer, and then when the Zscript pauses for a Naration, I mimic what was just done on my second system…
It has helped me absorb, and learn what is in the Zscript tutorial alot better, and at a Much faster pace…
when I only had one computer, I would have to stop the Zscript, grab the tool that the script was useing, and Undo it a few times. Then I would try to do it myself to see If I could get the same results…
Then I would have to restart the tutorial, and go through the tutrial to get back to the point where I stopped it before.
Dose anyone have a method of doing this with a Zscript?
Or could someone please make a “Mimic tutorial/Pause Zscript” Plugin?
TIA :*