An example would be, if I search for an “ear” tutorial I get a message that either the word is too short or there are too many hits. Any suggestions. It seems to happen a lot and it’s making it hard to find pertinent posts???
ZBC needs at least four letters to be able to conduct a search. For “ear”, simply pluralize it. Ears come in pairs, and so a tutorial about “how to model an ear” will quite likely say “ears” at some point.
ZBC also uses these conventions:
- between search terms will look for all posts containing both terms anywhere within the post. For example, model +ears will return all posts that have both terms, even if the terms are not right next to each other in the post or are in a different order.
- between search terms will exclude the second term from the search. For example, model -ears will return all posts that have model somewhere within them, unless that post also contains ears.
“” around a phrase will tell the search engine to look for the exact phrase and ignore cases where the words appear separately. For example, “model ears” will only return posts where someone actually said those two words together. Posts that say model, ears, or even both terms separately within the same post will not be shown in the results.
You can mix and match the options, too:
“model ears” +nose -ZSpheres
This would return posts with phrases such as “how to model ears in ZBrush” provided that the post also said “nose” somewhere within it and the word “ZSpheres” is never mentioned in the post.
Happy Searching!
Thanks:)