Quote - The Elite textures from DAZ are about as good as you'll get, they have a state of the art body scanner for capturing the skin detail at incredibly high res. Unfortunately the resources are then shoved into 4000x4000 textures by the venders, which makes them as low res as the rest.

So are you saying that DAZ  provides the vendors with these textures and then the vendors go and map them?

I would think by now there would be at least ONE person out of all  these hundreds of thousands of Poser merchants who would want to make some texture sets for people wanting high resolution.

Or does DAZ tell them they have to stick to a certain resolution standard? I've noticed that all texture sets I have are in non powers of two, like 4000x4000 or 3000x3000, while the industry standard is to use powers of two, since that's how a graphics card deals with a texture - 1024, 2048, 4096, etc.

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