Julialynn,

Thank you for asking. Absolutely feel free to continue using her as you have before. The concern that we have had was with the distribution of the model and not the personal use of it. And if others would like to use it to and don't have it, maybe they could appeal to Sixus1 to distribute an RTE encoded version.

Constantine 1234. I appreciate your understanding and support of our position on this. It really means a lot to me and DAZ. I hope others will feel the same way too. The fact that she is free only makes it easier to find a reasonable resolution. Also by the fact that she is free, it doesn't mean that she is any less valuable to DAZ.

Warning. Another long-winded note is coming.

I am surprised that there has not been a lot of replies to the post that I made yet. Either everybody had either gone to bed before reading it or it put a lot of people to sleep :) I just got 3 good hours of sleep in so I am ready to go again (not). I really don't feel that this has to be turned into such a negative situation for anyone.

I wanted to put the shoe on the other foot with an example. CL has the much anticipated release of Poser 6 on Monday. Poser 6 contains the new characters Jesse and James. Jesse and James appear to be a very important reason for the upgrade value for many new users.

What if one to two weeks after the release of Poser 6, DAZ released J and J Unimesh? This could be a unimesh model that looks identical in shape topology to each of the models and could wear all or their clothing and hair items (because we would have morphed the mesh to their shape and copied their new joint parameters identically). This model could wear all of the new clothing that is being developed for them by the artists at RDNA and other places available in CP. We could give her out for free to anyone. If reason number Jesse and James were the main reason that some people are upgrading, we could circumvent the need for them to do upgrade. Both characters could have the option to wear either V3/M3 texture maps (that many people may already own) or Jesse' and James' textures because we would have two .obj options each accepting one or the other set of UV coordinates. The users may not have to pick their favorites because they would have the majority of both in one character. With the tools and modelers at DAZ, we could do all of this in a small fraction of the time that it likely took the original developers to create Jesse and James (because the majority of the work was done by them in the original modeling and rigging that we could benefit from).

Do you think CL would be happy for DAZ to do this? Would it be protected under the terms of their EULA if they weren't? Would they try to stop us from doing it? Might it negatively impact the potential developers market for the new models and help maintain V3/M3 position in the market? Would this community perceive DAZ as the victim or the bad guys if we did this and were asked to stop distributing these models? Would CL be perceived as the Victim or the bad guys if they stopped us from distributing these models? Would they simply just encourage us to use the RTE encoder so that it at least requires the recipient to have a license of the new models first? I really don't know the answers to these questions but they are good ones to consider for those who are upset at DAZ for attempting to protect our rights.

I hope this example helps in some way to clarify our position and will not stir things up further.

Sincerely,

Dan Farr
President, DAZ Productions