Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL


Subject: Why is DAZ offering their V3 character for free? Whats the catch?

kulit opened this issue on Jan 08, 2005 ยท 43 posts


philebus posted Sun, 09 January 2005 at 4:34 AM

Hmmm. The flat isn't big enough to be saving any trigannic pyus just now. I don't think that there will be a 4th generation for at least another year. There are still products to be gotten from the old unimesh - they have only just released Aiko and the first of this round of Mil Kids and there is plenty of scope to complete the family. DAZ is rightly focusing on growing their customer base, the free studio and base figures (which include Aiko) are an excellent strategy for that. If a new range is launched too soon into this initiative, people will be put off and it will fail! Prospects for a new generation of figures has been limited by the capabilities of the Poser rigging. Whatever DAZ produce, it has to be compatible with their studio (at least with release 1) which has opted for that same rigging. There are no real advatages in increased resolution at this time and so the scope for a generation of P4 based figures that better previous generations in the way that the current one has, is limited. I gather that Curious Labs are not making major changes to rigging in Poser 6 - but they will have to by version 7. I would expect to see something then, along with release 2 of DAZ Studio.