shg0816 opened this issue on Sep 14, 2006 · 59 posts
Tirjasdyn posted Tue, 19 September 2006 at 11:07 AM
Quote - I thought I would jump in and answer a few questions explaining this from the DAZ perspective. DAZ has never made a strategic decision not to allow exporting of scene information to be importable into Poser. The only reason that possibility is not available today is that it is a nearly impossible task for us to do it without having full access to the Poser file format. In reality, there is only limited public information about the Poser format. We have spent a lot of development efforts to be able to read Poser formatted content and still have some areas where we can only approximate and not 100% accurate. This problem becomes exaggerated if we tried to export those files again to the Poser format. We have come about as far as we can without there being more public information on the format.
So your saying that you made a decision not to work with CL and now EF. Or at least buy licenses for newer versions of poser in which the text file format is right there for you to read.
Quote -DAZ Studio has one of the more open and detailed SDK’s that it publicly available for free. Our intention with DAZ Studio is to be open and to be compatible with other 3D software applications. We currently have an .FBX exporter and have joined the Khronos open format group supporting the Collada format for creating a more open opportunity for the exchange of content between other 3D applications. (http://www.khronos.org/members/contributors/).
For the one time fee of $995. You charge just like everyone else does. Claim that you can't get Poser sdk because you won't pay for or agree to their terms would at least be honest.
http://forum.daz3d.com/viewtopic.php?t=34781&sid=2c28f32e1eb09068e4d264b365b78aeb
Quote -As an additional note, we are in the later stage development of rigging tools that will allow for rigging within DAZ Studio that could then be exported for use within Poser. These tools are very powerful and will allow people to accomplish some things that they haven’t been able to before. Because we still don’t have a perfect representation of the Poser format, there may be some slight differences between bends etc. in DAZ Studio to Poser.
Let's all cheer for soon.
Now for the total price of the plugins without discounts: $270.40, this goes to at least $390 after they eventually stop offering Bryce 5 for free but otherwise with Bryce 5.5 upgrade it is $290.40. Unless you choose to stick with 5 then it's 300.35 to add turbo to make it a plugin. Of course who knows what the new rigging or bryce 6 will cost when soon happens.
Now let's talk Poser. $149...which includes the what your plugins do plus more, with the exception of Bryce. But then you can add vue d'esprit which will import poser with mover for $348 but the price gets dropped if you wait for vue d'espirit 6 which includes mover which will import dynamics for $199. Again this is without discounts.
So to have all of Dazstudio with Bryce with no discounts 390.00 not counting the coming soons which don't have a price for.
To have more than Daz studio with landscaping ahead of bryce, ie Poser and vue d'esprit: Currently $497. Soon: $348 en total.
All of this information can be found on:
poser sdk pricing n/a.