"Could Poser retain its popularity with something resembling the current 3rd party figure market?"

Simple question: what makes those Daz characters popular amongst those who do like them?
a. Daz's marketing scheme? give 'em out free, and charge little for supporting stuff like morphs and like that?
b. the broad range of morphs included in the package? would it be hard to provide/develop something similar for Poser-natives or 3d-party figures?
c. the fact that they are currently Poser compatible and reasonably easy to use (well-supported)?

You only have to look at dynamic cloth - which I am currently struggling with, and I mean struggling! - versus conforming cloth for clues how a well-supported figure will gain in popularity over one for which support is sketchy. (I'm reading two tutorials on our tutorials page: one is for Poser 5 claim to be dead easy, but I'm solidly confused right at the get-go with talk about draping ... there is no drape button in my version of Poser ... and the other involves a dress that I need to shell out money for, which I'm not about to do since I'm not all that enchanted with the whole concept yet -- easy-to-use, PAH! plus the tutorial has images where I can't even make up the words on them, since they've been scaled down in size, with resultant loss in detail). In case you've missed it, my enthusiasm for dynamic is shrinking and it wasn't all that great to begin with.

I warrant that this is the experience of most Poser users and that is why dynamics haven't caught on with the bulk of Poser users... only those who battle on finally have the penny drop, and then they all claim it's dead easy.

Which means I'm an idiot, because I'm just not getting it.

Victoria 4 is easy to use. She may not be accurate but jeez-louise, she really is point-and-click.

Okay, back to my struggling. If I can get my head around nodes and maths, this should eventually COME.

Monterey/Mint21.x/Win10 - Blender3.x - PP11.3(cm) - Musescore3.6.2

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