Okay, I'm gonna throw my twenty-five cents worth in (inflation yah know), and brave the hoopla that may come. In just about every case of a character set I have bought from DAZ or Rendo, the character consisted of 'dial spins'. My characters in the store are careful dial spins. Most people who use Poser are hobbyists, and many are very new to the program starting out with P7. I started in 1998 with Poser 3 and have been using the program continually. Many of these people do not have the time, the inclination, or understanding yet to create their own characters with their own textures, MAT Poses and INJ/REM poses. All of the processes which go into making a character and texture set to sell in the store takes a lot of time to learn. And I'm still learning it. When the Rendo store was new to the site, I had a set of textures for sale for some of Xurges things (and worked with him specifically to texture two armor sets). Way back then, one had to produce a MAT file by hand in a text editor by hacking the saved pose for the material settings. Now there are utilities and python scripts to produce these poses for you, and in some cases they still have to be hand edited. I also use texture bases (Merchant Resource Packages), and my particular favorites to work from are produced by VictoriasStyle, and I'm proud to say so. Product creation is a long process with a learning curve and a lot of trial and error and I do it for those people who either haven't learned these skills yet and want a beautiful character for their images, or don't have the time to spend on this long process but still want something nice to work with. (Some people may be so new that they don't even know how to install the files into Poser which is why the beta testers require that the zip file be completely ready to unzip directly into Poser. I, personally NEVER ever unzip directly into Poser, but this is a requirement from the store staff so I've made the zips to spec. And yes, there are people out there that are that new, my partner is one of these people. She has Poser 5 and I will come in and supervise as she installs files for testing since she created important texture elements for my latest package which is in the testing phase right now.)

I think rather that this discussion went astray simply because of symantics from a new comer who called their character a 'morph' rather than saying it was created from dial settings. If the original poster of this thread wants to sell his character made from dial spins, or go into Zbrush and create a new morph and sell it in the market place, more power to him. The creation process either way to making a package for the Marketplace takes time, effort, dedication, and acquiring skills using MAT creation utilities, INJection utilities, paint programs, and last but not least rendering skills to make promo images of your product. I encourage him to the learn the process.

getting down off of soap box and putting it away

(Edited to show one of my original promo ads)

Liz Pope
Latexluv
Dreamspinner

"A lonely climber walks a tightrope to where dreams are born and never die!" - Billy Thorpe, song: Edge of Madness, album: East of Eden's Gate

Weapons of choice:

Poser Pro 2012, SR2, Paintshop Pro 8