Michaelab opened this issue on May 27, 2011 · 162 posts
Terrymcg posted Wed, 01 June 2011 at 12:28 AM
I tried Daz Studio 2 or 3 years a go , if memory serves, and I wasn't impressed. Only thing you could do, was to play with pre-installed daz content. You couldn't import anything. A 3d program that doesn't let you use your own meshes? Let alone rig them? That's just silly - I thought it was the dumbest thing ever invented. It was a program designed to merely showcase Daz content. I honestly thought it would never be succesful. It seems that I was wrong.
Recently, I ended up buying Bryce Pro, because it was cheap and because I wanted a program that could be used to make beautiful scenery. Bryce seemed like a cheaper version of Vue. Then I found out that the damn thing wouldn't let you even import Poser files. But it would import daz files. So, I decided to try out Daz studio again, but again I wasn't impressed. It seemed to be just as limited as before. First impresssions die hard, I guess.
I haven't used daz or Bryce ever since and I doubt I will be using Daz 4 either, even if Genesis 5 proves to be the best Daz figure ever.
I suppose it is time to model my own figures like wolf359 suggests, but I am not that good a modeler (yet?), to be honest. For now, I will stick with Poser, that's for sure and maybe start saving money for Lightwave or Maya.
D'oh! Why do things that happen to stupid people keep happening to me?