*I think what gets most people upset is that the vendors are using a character that is primarily targeted to the DAZ user.

*This is notably wrong!

Here's a little history:

Poser 1.0 was released in 1995
Poser 4.0 was released in 1999
Victoria 1 was released in 1999 - as far as I know she was a derivate of the P4-woman (Posette)
Victoria 2 was released in 2001
Victoria 3 was released in 2002
DAZ  Studio was released in it's version 1.0 in 2005 as far as I remember.
Victoria 4 was released in late 2006

(...and this does just contain the history of the most popular model by DAZ).

I agree, but what is most misunderstood is that D|S is the entry level program and not the other way around. It may well be on it's way to better functionality but it's not there as of yet. For the most part, as I had said in my prior post, I see it primarily as a marketing tool at the moment. A damn good one though.

And this is notably right! Meanwhile the interest in Poser often starts with the interest in the figures. And DS is a perfect tool if you want to try out 3d with human figures without spending a huge amount of money. But if you like the artistic work with these figures and want to achieve better and more realistic results you definitly have to spend the one or other Dollar - maybe on Plug-Ins for DS or for Poser.

And just a word to those that say that the User Interface of DS/Poser is so hard to learn: Yes, definitly, regardless what you try as a new tool I don't like the interface of DS at all and can use Poser with my eyes closed - because I use it more and for a far longer period. And in Bryce I am not even able to find the interface...

I'm not always right, but my mistakes are more interesting!

And I am not strange, I am Limited Edition!

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