Quote - @ AnnieD, if you don't want to 'fix' content to get it to work in DS, then why the hell are you on this site, the vast majority of the content here is for Poser, all of which needs alterations done to the surface settings before any of it will look right in DS. If you want DS compatable content then stick to the DAZ3d store, but be warned all of the old content over there doesn't come with DS presets, as does quite a few of the newer content.

In a nutshell as a DS user you have no choice but to 'fix' content, it either loads in looking like it's been dipped in varnish, or flat & lifeless, all of which is down to the specular settings, and as everything in real life has specularity turning the 'lighting model' to Matte or changing the Spec color to black, leaves you with a very flat & fake looking render.

You'll find that like me most old hands will use a Poser MAT as a shortcut, it saves us from having to manually load the textures, then it's a case of adjust things to get them how we want them (everybody has thier own preference) including adding any textures the MAT file doesn't load (spec & disp usually), and then save a preset so we don't have to go through that again with that item.

Using DS is similar to the bad old days of Poser 4, when a new character meant a Morph Target .obj and a pile of .jpg, and you had to manually load them all.

 

You're wrong.  As a Renderosity vendor, I never release a product without D|S compatible mats.  And, frankly, since I do all my rigging in D|S , you can BET on a good MAT from my products.  And I am not alone, by a long shot.

Why do you come in this forum repeatedly and try to start a fight?