STORM3 opened this issue on Feb 14, 2003 ยท 34 posts
wolf359 posted Sat, 15 February 2003 at 4:23 PM
"I find this statement ironic coming from one of the leading Poser animators in the community. Has anybody at Daz ever indicated that "Daz Studio" is going to support animation at all? And if so, then when? Please educate me. Perhaps I missed a key posting on this issue. -jjsemp" Hi jjsemp, You cant believe everthing you read on the web but for what its worth I Copied and pasted this directly from the DAZ website, BOLD emphasis Mine "The following is a description of our commitment to help expand the community in which we all exist through the release of DAZ|Studio. The Base (free indefinitely) It is crucial that DAZ|Studio be built upon a completely solid foundation before focusing on additional functionality and features. DAZ|Studio is modular in nature, therefore advanced functionality will be offered as modules that allow the end-user to customize the software according to his or her own need and budget. Prior to the release of version 1.0, the base version of DAZ|Studio will be publicly available as a free beta for an undetermined period of time until it is solid. People familiar with Rhinoceros (Rhino 3D) may recognize this strategy. This plan will allow customers to test the software on their systems, report bugs, suggest necessary features, and watch the software as it develops. The first iteration of the DAZ|Studio base will be designed to render scenes from Poser 4 .PZ3 files. It will also have the ability to modify those scenes to some extent once the files are imported into Studio. Posing, animation, model import and other features will follow soon after the first beta release. Anticipated Stages of program completion:: Limited alpha Public beta, Mimic 2.0 available for sale 2nd beta release, Lightwave 3D and 3ds max Plug-ins available DAZ|Studio Basic 1.0 Gradual addition of Studio plug-ins with advanced features [Schedule subject to change] Advanced-feature modules will be sold separately. These will consist of advanced animation tools, Mimic 2.0, translation tools for porting to and from other software applications, and dynamic-cloth authoring. DAZ|Studio is designed to be a platform that will encourage the development of additional content and plug-ins by outside developers." BTW Im in the fortunate postion of being able to render my poserpro animations in a fully hardware accelerated program with true volumetrics,particle sytem cloth and fur Batch rendering(Cinema4DXl) SO im in no hurry for a simple Pose and still render preveiw app from DAZ. But it will be nice for poser users who cant afford rendering alternative Like C4DXl/LW etc.