Dave-So opened this issue on Apr 24, 2006 · 244 posts
RAMWorks posted Tue, 25 April 2006 at 1:40 AM
What a great read this last 4 pages have given me. WOW!
No, the news is not earth shattering but it's still interesting and as a DAZ supportive person, as well as eFrontier (I do own Poser 6 as well as Miki, James and Jessi) and a supporter of Apollo, Eszter and other creator owned projects I have to say that the dialog at times in this discussion was a bit ........ fierce ...... to say the least!
My take on it all is that I'm looking forward to all the great deals DAZ will offer for new Carrara/Hexagon users!! 
I don't find this in the least bad for either "camp", I find that DAZ made an acquisition and it will further itself by being able to offer high end software to compliment it's other products like Bryce and DAZ Studio oh yea and even Poser, imagine that! 
As someone else here has mentioned... Does eFrontier support any of the Mil figures or inform their modelers and texture artists that in the better interest of all end users out there that the they need to make sure shaders that compliment with DAZ Studio are included in the package as well as Poser 4 - 6?? Nope! Has DAZ SAID they were going to stop supporting Poser?? Where is this written? I want to see that quote from DAN the Man!! Does DAZ not include textures that are compatible for Poser 4-6 and STILL releases packs that are NOT totally D|S compliant?? Yup!! All the time!! But DAZ is evil because they are building their business further? That's a bad thing??? Last time I checked that would be considered a good thing, like it or not! What? You expect them to just say "we are happy just creating our little models and developing DAZ Studio and Bryce from here to eternity......." Get real! :tt2:
I think the one thing I found irritating was the sometimes downright cruel remarks. I find that sort of behavior immature and inappropriate. But I have also found that many folks have an extreme hatred of DAZ and that's just too bad for them. Spending productive energy keeping HATE alive in ones heart for past stuff or stuff imagined (speculation) is such a waste of time! Wait and see and then if there's an "I told you so" then do that rant then, not now!
Richard ;-)~
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