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Dare I hope this means DAZ will finally start seriously supporting P6? 

I'm so tired of fixing bump maps and normals...

What's even more interesting is that this means Daz is actually selling Miki...

Hmm...

And I second your wishes for proper P6 support from Daz :o)

Hmmm.  That is an interesting thought.   Wonder if they'll be accepting Miki products for the store now?

What's more interesting is if Daz figures will appear in the face room?

Peace at last!?

It would be good, not only for DAZ, but for the 3D community as a whole.  This stimulates a lot of cross-pollenation and trade.  I'm not a DAZ Studio user, but items that can sold for D/S use would be a good thing as well.  Utilization across a broad spectrum of users of products from here, and E-frontier and DAZ can only help us all in the long run. 

I'm encouraged about this!  Diversity in the market is ALWAYS a good thing!

Quote - Hmmm.  That is an interesting thought.   Wonder if they'll be accepting Miki products for the store now?

Now that would be nice to see Miki Products at Daz.

I wouldn't mind if  Daz started selling some James, Jessi, Koji and TY2 items as well.

Cheers

DR

It also explains why Anton left CP.

Quote - It also explains why Anton left CP.

you may have a point there...

I wouldn't expect a lot non-DAZ figure content support at DAZ. Their policy, at least up to now, has been to not support figures that they don't sell. It might have to do with having to provide support for figures they don't control.

Yeah, but now they are selling Miki.  She's part of the Poser CE pack they have in their store now.

Seems like they had to add support for Poser when they acquired Eovia.  Carrara has Transposer which allows you to pull in .pz3 files into Carrara and render them. 

anton already explained why he left cp. hence I am uncertain why daz selling poser would augment or modify anton's explanation.

Maybe DAZ bought Poser, and Shade, and Manga Studio, and.........

I was going to post what Stegy posted, but I figured better NOT to speculate.

While competition is good, competition that includes non compatability is bad. Hopefully this will result in the compatability pendulem swinging back the other way. Note however that they still don't sell upgrade versions of Poser, nor Miki seperate of the large full version.

the only thing more intriguing that Daz selling Poser would be Daz Buying Poser..;)

things that make ya go hmm....;)

Maybe next time you can buy a PC in an Apple Store. :)

No, I checked with apple, and they said they are never gonna sell xp or vista in any apple store. but these things are not written in stone.

I think this is an interesting development. As mentioned earlier, Daz acquires Eovia - Carrara being the best "non-Poser" host of Poser content, offers the Hexagon modeler for two bucks then sells Poser bundled with Shade, while still selling D/S and Bryce plus the ability to import content into Vue. Of course noone knows for sure but it almost looks like the beginning of a 3D "super-app" similar to the way Alias brought together several disparate packages to produce Maya. If they do this and keep the price reasonable (by keeping it modular for instance) there would be a new big three: Autodesk, Lightwave and Daz. 

Miki being sold by Daz........the future i see is either

a) barbie doll bump version gets created and sold at daz

b) or barbie doll bump morph created and sold by Daz

http://www.renderosity.com/viewed.ez?galleryid=1216771 hummm...thought so

:lol:

Well the beginning of the end is coming upon us...... next move will be DAZ taking over EF and DAZ will soon become the lone player on the Poser market, making us pay for all the freebies and crazy sales they've done in past.

Any time the name "DAZ" is mentioned, the worldwide doom and gloom scenario eventually has to come out.

EF is less competition to DAZ's model selling business than RDNA or Renderosity, so any speculation on Poser's acquisition won't have any effect on freebies and sales. DAZ doesn't care whether somebody buys one of their models for Studio or Poser. DAZ has been providing freebies long before they even had competition from anybody. The freebies are about getting people to look at the store every week. Sales are about getting people to buy frequently when they might not otherwise want to buy what's offered right away. Those strategies are independent of the competition DAZ has.

If DAZ wanted to cripple their competition, they'd do it with a truly onerous license that forbids anybody selling products, based on their figures, outside of DAZ, and legally enforcing it. Try to imagine the effect that would have on the marketplace. How many stores would be devastated if they could not sell clothes, textures, or add-ons for the Millennium figures?

I don't think any more should be read into DAZ selling Poser than DAZ selling Total Textures, EFrog, or the other commercial products that they've sold in their store.

Uhm...I just read something odd in Computer ARTS #122's review of Carrara 5 Pro, direct quote:

"Carrara's developer, Eovia, also owns the ever-popular Poser..."

That's not true is it? I mean, if it is...does that mean Daz just got Poser as a hidden prize in their acquisition of Eovia Corp. and thus, the Poser for sale stuff at their site?

I think it is just a mistake. People like to confuse the e companies

ah...figured that may be it.  Thanks!

DAZ is only a reseller for Poser, like they resell XFrog plants. That's all. E-On sells a Poser/Vue/Mover bundle and a Vue/Lightwave bundle - does anyone thinks E-on will buy Poser or Lightwave?

Regarding P6 support - a lot of the new products have P5/P6 mats included now, some products are even P5/P6 only because it's dynamic clothing or it uses the material nodes to create special effects. It's up to the indivdual PAs to include support for all versions of Poser and DS or only for the version they are working with. DAZ tells no one to not support certain versions of Poser.