Quote - A lot of people simply can't get DS to run. Just so you know. Until 1.7.9 or so I wasn't able to load a thing into there, 1.8 came along and sort of broke things again until a later version. Some people simply can't get ti to run on their machine at all.

And then there is the learning curve, load into DS and it looks like garbage but there is nothing to make it look better (that the person knows about) so they just don't bother. That was a lot of experiences early on and people just don't go back.

But, again, for some people it simply doesn't work.

Honestly, I use DS since 0.8 or something like this and I never had a major problem with it, apart from plugins not working after an update. I am on PC, maybe it is different for Mac-users, so I do not think that it is a DS problem.

I had some testruns on Poser at a friend who owns it, but I do not find it very easy to use, especially the lightning, so I think it is simply a question of getting used to it, like every time when you learn a new prog.

I don't ask the vendors to learn DS like a pro, just to open their works in it and do a test-render, apply their morph or what else applies. You don't have to be using DS for ages to see if it works or not, or they just ask a DS-user to do a test, they will find some willing to help.

Just my point of view.

Peter