notefinger opened this issue on Jun 20, 2004 ยท 76 posts
aeilkema posted Sat, 26 June 2004 at 1:19 PM
Although the final version isn't out yet. I would still turn the question around, how is Poser better then DAZ Studio? I had some problems with running the application at first, but that was due to the fact I tried to open some P5 figures and then DS crashes. 1. Content, even though DS is free it lacks content. Poser comes with lots of content, which makes it great. If one doesn't own Poser, but only DS, you would need to buy the content at DAZ itself for example. Soon this nice free tool won't be to free anymore. 2. Poser 5 has great features like dynamic hair, no support for that in DS (yet?). 3. Rendering. Even thoug I don't use P5 render engine much (due to bringing most of my P5 content to Vue4), the DS render engine has only a few option and the renders don't look as vivid as in Poser. 4. While DS starts up fast, Poser content loads rather slow. 5. Animating Poser figures will distort the mesh quite badly at times. Just bend a leg a little and move it to the side a little and the mesh will be all over the place. 6. DS crashes when trying to open P5 figures that are prepared with dynamic hair and conforming clothes. 7. DS reminds me of P4 too much, it's seems to be way behind P5. After playing with DAZ Studio for a while, I do not see any reason for me as a Poser 5 user to continue using DS at all. It's way behind P5, lacks all the cool features P5 has, lacks the rendering power P5 offers, only really opens P4 stuff succesfully (especially when using hair and such). Lacks any content and buying DAZ content (what they most likely want you to do) will make it quite expensive compared to P5.
Artwork and 3DToons items, create the perfect place for you toon and other figures!
http://www.renderosity.com/mod/bcs/index.php?vendor=23722
Due to the childish TOS changes, I'm not allowed to link to my other products outside of Rendo anymore :(
Food for thought.....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pYZw0dfLmLk