jjsemp opened this issue on Dec 18, 2003 ยท 46 posts
Joerg Weber posted Fri, 19 December 2003 at 5:57 AM
So what? There are tons of Poser 3 users, so we > shouldn't use transmaps either? Oh, and not everyone > has Vicky, so we better make Posette content only. Uhm... if you don't own Vicky, you may have missed something: Vicky and I think also Mike, were sold for just 8 Pound or so on the Cover-CD of the ComputerArts Magazine. So, if there is still anybody without those two models - hard luck. There are still a lot of back-issues available and the model is really worth it's price. On the other hand, it is called "DAZ"-Studio. Ever noted the "DAZ" in the name? It means, that it is not a CuriousLab-Product, but a DAZ-Product. So if DAZ supports Poser, this is a) a pretty nice move b)an intelligent business-decision, since it increases the customer-base. But most users here still seem to use Poser 4 - I guess many not even having bought the ProPack. I never bought Poser 5 since I never really trusted CuriousLabs to really update the product. When I heard that the memory-system got no update and there was still no hardware 3D-support, Poser 5 was no longer anywhere near attractive. And I do guess that most Poser-users see it that way. I know of cases, where people switched back to using P4. So why would DAZ support a programm which is not widely in use, riddled with bugs, has a memory-leak you could drive a car through, when there is a somewhat dated application, that is widely in use and there is a certain backward-compatibility. What would be more interesting for me, is if DAZ Studio supports such things as ERC, EasyPose and all those other little tricks you can do with Poser.