Quote - I'm reading throught the thread again and I can see a lot of peoples hopes scattered. Does anyone seriously believe all of this is going to be pulled off by one man? Poser..... team years of development. DAZ..... team years of develpment.

No way on man is going to achieve what is being asked.

Ok.. well, as far as the one man theory goes, my guess is you probably missed the part of the posts where I talked about this being open source.  I won't be the only developer on the project, in fact once it gets up and going I have a feeling the number of developers working on it will probably greatly exceed the number of team members on both Daz and Poser combined.

Poser got started back when there really wasn't much in the way of code samples or libraries to draw on.  However if you take a quick peek over at source forge I think you will discover, as I did, that such is no longer the case.

Most of the features I've discussed have already been implemented in a variety of other open source projects, giving me a very nice roadmap to follow as well as high end libraries that already accomplish a lot of what I need without a great deal of addtional coding.

Somebody else has already done the hard part of inventing the wheel.  I don't have to do that like the Poser development team did.  I've already got a ton of proven technology and code backing up the project - it's a huge head start from where Poser began.

As to development cycle, no, I don't expect to have this done overnight.  The alpha release is at least 6 months out, possibly longer depending on how much time I can give to the project and how many other developers I can get interested in helping out in the pre-alpha stage.

Once the alpha is out though, I expect we'll probably attract a bit of attention and pick up a few more really good developers, and after that we can forge ahead to a full release version.

So no, I wasn't expecting to code this entirely myself from the ground up, and no, I'm not starting from scratch as the folks that made Poser did, so yes, this is a feasible project.

-Never fear, RenderDog is near!  Oh wait, is that a chew toy?  Yup. ok, nevermind.. go back to fearing...