Quote - In the past, and now again, I see fear-mongers predicting dire consequences based on an assumption that SM-Poser staff are among the stupidest people on earth, who not only started stupid years ago, but have no ability to learn anything at all about marketing or technology. Such comments are not only distracting us from discussing important things, but I find them offensive.

 

This.

 

Here's a clue, folks - they talk to each other in a given week more times than you talk to your own spouse/kids/cat/whatever.

 

Neither company wants to jepoardize the millions of bucks they rake in each fiscal quarter. I think that in this case, D|S and Poser is the best definition of the word "frenemies"

I suspect that things will be slightly bumpy at first, but will smooth out from there.

 

Me, I'd positively kill for weight-mapping. I'd also kill for a rigging that actually lets me modify, say the torso to a natural spinal bend, instead of carving up a mesh into a zillion chunks and hoping the end result looks okay and conforming clothing doesn't explode in the process. Soft-body dynamics w/ proper collision detection? Been a PITA ever since I wrestled with it years ago, and a workable solution (that doesn't take a week to calculate) has yet to come out, IIRC (and if I'm wrong about that bit, please, please, please tell me - I want to know!)

 

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