Quote - "Poser's content library has Poser or Poser Pro as a gateway. Write a means of importing Poser content into LW, and what do you need Poser for?"

That is exactly what Daz is telling everyone with Carrara. LOL.

Could also be one of the reasons why EF is doing the pro thing. I don't know, it's just a guess.

This is why I wrote interPoser Pro.  For a while there - a couple years at least - there was no simple bridge between Poser and other apps.  You could assuredly export the Wavefront OBJ file and re-texture, re-light, re-camera in other apps.  You would lose animation and other functionality and any changes required redoing the process.

Unfortunately (or fortunately), Carrara and Poser go way back (to MetaCreations) with some similar roots.  Other 3D apps don't have that kinship and require some hefty fiddling to emulate Poser features.

Aside: My beef with LightWave3D is exactly the reasons stated already for why I dumped it.  It hasn't been mentioned but NewTek has been long in neglecting LW and it is starting really to show in the disparity between it and other similar applicaitons.  NewTek had a major version upgrade that was no such thing and seems to have been negligent since - I feel vindicated in my decision.  "Panicked scrambling" seems to be the phrase o' the day for NewTek's realization that sitting on your ASS while everyone else moves forward will not improve your sales and customer loyalty.  I hope they do two things: stop side ventures and merge the two apps into one (as no other application works in this weird, unintuitive manner).

C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot. C++ makes it harder, but when you do, you blow your whole leg off.

 -- Bjarne Stroustrup

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