I just fired up DS 3.newest for the first time not having opened DS since some version of DS 2.old. I must say that there are a lot of changes, but I still cannot make heads or tails of the user interface (which is why I abandoned DS when it was still free).

I really only installed DS again to load the Temple of Mars Prop by Kraig, so I could export it and load it into PP2010. It worked best for me exporting it using generic Collada, which imports into Poser without having to size the prop. Sadly I don't know how to get the doors to open or close, but I can just make them transparent which is almost as good. Kraig modeled the columns fairly close together, so it is hard to get a good straight shot into the inner chamber anyway. The columns are made as two separate material groups, and each group contains every other column. I would have made the front two columns in a third group so that they could be made transparent, and allow for a straight line view into the inner chamber. But, that is not a DAZ verses Poser problem.

Except for Miki and one other figure (I think), the Poser figures have been provided as content with Poser, meaning that one had to own Poser to get the content (legally). With the introduction of new rigging capabilities in Poser 8, the Alyson and Ryan figures will not work properly in DS. Since David(3) the DAZ figures have been less and less compatible with Poser. The DAZ version of sub-d, and dynamic cloth are completely proprietary. It has been the ingenuity of content providers and users that has kept the two communities of products as close as they are now.

So DAZ and Poser have already been moving in their own different directions for some time. Unless these companies allow for compatibility, eventually the users will not be able to straddle the difference for themselves.

If DAZ makes products that I cannot get to work in Poser, then I will not buy those products. That isn't critical, petulant or punitive, it is reasonable. If I were a DS user, I would feel the same way. If the DS and Poser products are better off with proprietary product lines and a separate development pathway, great. If not, I hope they adjust their trajectories.

lmk

Probably edited for spelling, grammer, punctuation, or typos.