Quote - if anything D|S and Poser are holding each other back by being so similar.

very few products take full advantage of their program's capabilities because content creators are trying to keep both customer bases buying a product that looks the same in both products.

DS3A and Poser 8 are actually starting to show some diversions. They both have different tools/options that differentiate from each other: Poser has the morph brush, but DS3A has a figure mixer; Ds3A can adapt skins between figures, but Poser still has the Python scripting that offers lots of possibilities. And other things. DS3A has caught up with Poser and is great competition. SM has shown a great deal more "hands on/quick fixes/listen to its user-base" than any other Poser developer ever has, so the future looks bright for both programs.

Daz isn't the only store out there. RDNA seems quite happy with selling items that are Poser-ONLY based, like Render Studio/Light Studio, Shaderworks python scripting and Poser-only shaders. D3D here at Renderosity and CP screates some awesome Poser-only add-ons as well. Sure, there will always be some Daz vendors that make DAZ only items, but many more will be compatible with both.

Except for the world economy, it's actually an exciting time for Poser and DS3A.

Now, if only Smith Micro would fix the scaling/conforming clothing bug in Poser... :)  But then, I would have to have Poser 8, and because of the economics of things, I have to pass until later this year for my upgrade.

But, dang, I wish I had either one. Both have features I wish I had in my P7.

-- Jeff