Hi, Will.  Nice to see you here.  ;-)

I hope nobody takes what I'm saying as disrespect for DAZ Studio or DAZ.  I use DAZ Studio and Poser, both.  I admire Dan and the folks at DAZ, and to a certain degree, credit them with the community's survival.  But, I also believe DAZ has the greatest influence on technology adoption in the community and I think dynamic cloth is a good example to demonstrate that theory.

DAZ has stated that they recognize the importance of the ability to clothify so merchants can make dynamic cloth for DAZ studio and that they are working to make it happen.  If I'm reading correctly, you believe dynamic cloth has not been more widely adopted because it takes more time to use and is more complex, and that DAZ's lack of dynamic clothing in their own product line (and store) has little or nothing to do with it.  It stands to reason, then, that DAZ will not start carrying more dynamic cloth items in their store once the ability is available in DAZ Studio.  I don't believe that at all.

I personally believe DAZ will start carrying a ton of dynamic clothing items in their store as soon as DAZ Studio can utilize them.  I also think this will spread here to Renderosity and that the community will experience a conversion process whereby dresses and skirts are typically rendered using dynamic cloth.  I believe DAZ's influence is far more powerful than how much time it takes to accomplish something in a render, or even how complex a feature is to use. 

Maybe I'm wrong.  We won't know for sure until DAZ Studio includes the ability.  It's something they have made clear they want to do.

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