It's not surprising that Daz has not been supporting P5-specific features - so many people haven't upgraded from P4 because P5 was not the upgrade they hoped for or wanted.

Dan is spot on that it's not Bryce's fault that Poser doesn't export a full set of the .mtl code describing material settings. However, being able to import P4 material settings is a waste of time, because they're so primitive (as is the P4 materials editor - ugh!). Being able to import P5 material settings would be different.

A speculation I have seen on another site (which may not be mentioned by name) is that Daz may have wanted to get their hands on Bryce partly to be able to copy the interface into D|S and thereby make it more Poser-like.

Message edited on: 06/24/2004 05:39