Quote - Daz Studio Pro is out, but you need to be a Platinum Club member to buy it.

It's a pre-release for Platinum Club members as a bonus for being a member.

Quote - In addition, there is something called the Content Creator Toolkit for a mere $195.95. I’m worried that Daz Studio Pro ($430 to non-platinum customers when available) is in reality ‘Daz Studio Semi-Pro’ with the content creation tools missing and only available for another $200. Someone please tell me I'm wrong.

You're wrong.

Robyns Veil wrote.

Quote - And a Cloth Room? Please tell me they finally have a Cloth Room!

DAZ Studio has had  Dynamic clothing for well over two years. As you well know you can only use premade clothing, but I do get better results in DAZ Studio than I do with Poser. I've been using the cloth room in Poser since it came out in Poser 5. I do wish we weren't stuck with a  proprietary format. Actually the cloth room is the only reason I still have Poser on my hard drive, I use it as a plug-in for DAZ Studio.

Robyns Veil wrote.

Quote - And an exporter to LuxRender.

Actually there are 2 exporters to LuxRender for DAZ Studio.

Robyns Veil wrote.

Quote - ETA: And what about Shader Mixer? Did they finally get that working?

It's worked fine ever since it came out, though it definitely needs better documentation. Luckily Zigraphix is working on it. Btw, does Poser 9 have 64 bit support yet, or is that only for people who buy Poser Pro? How about multi-select for materials? Or Sub-D, LOD, switchable UVs, partial mats? I haven't really looked at the full feature list for Poser to see what's there yet. Anyway, it's nice to see that Poser is finally catching up and getting some of the features that DAZ Studio users have enjoyed for years, like SSS , frame-orbit selected objects and multi-select drag and drop from the library. Very cool! :biggrin:

Acadia wrote.

Quote - Why not just create a fully loaded program from the get go and sell that?

They have. It's called DAZ Studio Pro. They also  sell everything al-a-carte for those who can't afford everything all at once and for people who don't need all of those features.

 

 

Coldrake