Attached Link: http://www.creativemac.com/2003/04_apr/news/daz030428.htm

Anyone see this yet?

Yikes Mimic 2 pro $199. well, hope there is a lot of toyes under that hood. I'm looking forward to it.

I trust there will be an upgrade path for owners of Mimic 1.0?

For that matter, I sincerely hope those of us who purchase Mimic 2.0 will be presented with a sidegrade option in the event we want the DAZ Studio plugin version later.

What I wonder is whether or not an upgrade path will be available to those of us who purchased Mimic 1.0 BEFORE it was bought out by DAZ (back when LipSync owned it) or will we have to pay full price for the newer version? Kate

I bought Poser 4 at upgrade prices despite the change of ownership... and suspect that most users did. CuriousLabs had no trouble with it and my serial numbers have all worked just fine. In fact, the only graphics company where I've had problems with getting the new serial numbers to "take" is Adobe, and their customer service folks walk my computer through the upgrade installation is since disk-swapping in&out doesn't get out of some weird internal loop. Many companies have sidegrade offers, too... even if they didn't get a penny from your other purchase they want your pennies now. Carolly

Ooooh! Does this mean Studio is just around the corner too?

Damn! They say Studio is due out in the Summer :o( June?, July? August?.......September? I wish Daz would give us some info :o(

OH RATS!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I ordered Mimic last week. If they aren't 'understanding' about upgrade pricing, I am going to be SO mad...

Attached Link: http://www.daz3d.com

That announcement is a bit specific, especially considering that we have not announced any release date for Mimic 2.0 yet. We do plan to release it in May, hopefully sooner than later in the month. And yes, we will have upgrade pricing, we wouldn't dream of releasing it any other way. (and even side-ways pricing, Little Dragon. ;)

And, Morphy, with our 30 day guarantee you could Mimic 1 even just the day before and still be guaranteed the pricing options you want. So, no problem there either.

Beat Corel in customer service? Man, if that was our only goal, our sales staff would have a lot more fun at work. ;)

Steve Kondris
DAZ Productions, Inc.

Glad to hear it. :) Any hints about the new features, or shall I continue speculating wildly until May?

Speculate away! Just don't be disappointed if the "Make Perfect Animation" button isn't quite perfected by the time it hits the street. ;) Steve

"Damn! I just don't understand companies that insist on releasing incomplete and unfinished programs!" I think its important to make the distinction between companies that advertise features in a program that simply dont work, barely work or arent there at all, and companies that release programs that simply dont include EVERYTHING on your wish list, all for a retail price of $200 or less. Poser5 was a Debacle for sure. but many people are still upset about it lacking features (hardware acceleration etc), that CL NEVER alleged would be in the program anyway.

"Finally, IMHO, Poser 5 was incomplete, unfinished and unfit when it was sent out for sale and shipment to what was a loyal and trusting customer base. That loyalty and trust was, IMHO, betrayed and used. You obviously disagree. Fine. I have no problem with that." No "disagreement" here friend as MAC user I was spared the horror and frustration of poser5 and wont bother with the MAC version if it ever comes out :-) Because I render all my poserpro4 character animations/stills in C4DXL, a REAL 3D program that has particles, cloth simulation, batch rendering, radiosity, hardware acceleration, hair,fur and liquid simulation, hypernurbs modeling open GL explosion effects just to name a few.