It is easy to see how rumors and misinformation gets propagated. I am not aware of any .daz formatted products that are available on the DAZ website. Pretty much everything is available as Poser formatted products. Our business is based on supporting the Poser market. We hope through our acquisition of Bryce we can expand the possibilities within this market. We hope through the development of DAZ Studio we can expand the possibilities further. We have spent tremendous amounts of efforts being able to support the Poser file formats within D|S because we see the value of what is available in this community. We plan to extend that support within Bryce.

Currently we have developed a Bryce importer that reads .obj files and .mtl files. Poser currently does not export all the necessary .mtl information that Bryce needs to display the scenes properly. Studio can read the Poser scene files and export the necessary information for Bryce (since we have the code for both programs we can control that now). We have send a correspondence to Curious Labs extending the offer to help them know what information they need to include in the .mtl file so that the Bryce pluggin will work strait from Poser (without needing to go through Studio). As for Poser 5 scene capabilities, it will depend on what data can be contained within the .obj and .mtl to go into Bryce.

I hope this helps to clarify things to some extent. Please know that we have no intentions of leaving this community.

Sincerely,

Dan Farr

Message edited on: 06/23/2004 20:26