Forum: DAZ|Studio


Subject: How is Daz Studio better than Poser?

notefinger opened this issue on Jun 20, 2004 ยท 76 posts


whattawa posted Wed, 30 June 2004 at 2:11 PM

I don't actually see how they are creating a Poser 4 like program. People are drawing that parallel, but if a free program that is in it's beta is comparable to Poser 4, then I think that's pretty incredible.

Since the program will be modular, the program could easily (if programmers decide to do it) be expanded to even surpass what Poser 5 does. None of us know for sure if that is what DAZ is planning, though. Maybe they aren't even comparing it to Poser 5 at all and are just trying to create a program that can do all the things they and the community want content to be able to do. There may be overlap with Poser 5 functionality there, maybe there won't be much though. We just don't know.

Look at other communities that have an SDK, most plugins are free, depending on how major they are. LW's community has a huge free plugin base, and then the ones that add a lot of functionality to the software usually have to be paid for, but wow are they worth it! The strength of an app like DAZ|Studio won't necessarily be what it offers out of the box (although that will be huge). What could be one of it's larger strengths will be it's community of developers, DAZ included. And that strength will be determined by DAZ and how they deal with the whole development/SDK issue.