Quote - M5/V5/K5  etc,  will just be 'shapes' for Genesis. the Genesis figure WILL NOT WORK IN POSER.

DAZ are NOT going to make Genesis compatible with Poser. SM will have to adopt the Figures technology in the next version ( if they want to,of course)

do not bank on EVER seeing a Dynamic Cloth creation plug-in ( not Optitex based, anyway)

It had not occured to me that DAZ would not release a stand alone V5 figure.  I mean Genesis is a good mesh, the different shapes are great and the joints look pretty good.  But all that information in one figure wouldn't make it very usable if you wanted multiple figures in a scene.  I realise that a lot of people only have one or two figures in a scene, but probably as many do.

I think Genesis on it's own would limit the market too much.  Besides the usage numbers for the figures are almost certainly weighted heavily towards Victoria and the other female figures, how many people are going to rush to Genesis because it can be all sorts of other figures?

Don't get me wrong I personally think Genesis is a great figure, I have played with it a bit and I like the way you can mix and match shapes to get a wide variety of looks.  And the cloth fitting plugin really is a great idea.  Unlike previous figure releases where you lost the ability to use all your old outfits, this plugin will do a pretty good job of fitting them to Genesis.

I still believe that the market share is going to depend on how many people want to use the Genesis figure, or a new Vicky if they release one.  If you need DS4 to use it, then ultimately people will migrate to DS4, if not then things will stay more or less as they are.

John

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