Or do as I do very often.... just create landscapes from within Poser 6. It's often overlooked, but P6 can create stunning landscapes with the help of tools like MicroCosm and Terraformers.

I'm working on a project that involves quite some landscaping and all is done in P6. I've got Carrara 5 and Bryce 5, but I'm a bit tired of all the importing and exporting. So decided to do it all in P6 and works great.

DAZ Studio has one of the more open and detailed SDK’s that it publicly available for free.

That's not correct and you know it..... Only the DAZ/Script portion is free, if you want the real thing, the plugin SDK, then you're paying a a license fee. With Poser you get the use of Python Scripts for free, so you're even.

I've never did fancy D/S, the base is way to limited and as Tirjasdyn explained, with the needed plugins to get it on par with Poser 6 (which it still will not be at all, not even close to P5), you're paying way more then you'll ever pay for Poser.

 

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.

At what price, that is the main question......

I once predicted that to get the D/S as good as Poser, it's going to cost you around $500. Most people laughed..... but we're already halfway through by now. I'm glad I never made the complete switch and seeing what D/S costs these days I'm very happy I decided to stick with Poser.

Artwork and 3DToons items, create the perfect place for you toon and other figures!

http://www.renderosity.com/mod/bcs/index.php?vendor=23722

Due to the childish TOS changes, I'm not allowed to link to my other products outside of Rendo anymore :(

Food for thought.....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pYZw0dfLmLk