"It's not up to the Poser Community to make Genesis compatible or usable in Poser. Seems to me that DAZ's job."

It is not the responsibility of the Poser community to fix DAZ's mistakes. But, if a Poser empowered form of Genesis is ever going to happen, I don't think DAZ3D will produce it. I don't think SM will produce it either. I believe that the talent exists in the Poser community to do it, but I think that the Poser community can come up with figures that are far better.

"Thats a low opinion of SM's capabilities"

No it isn't. Capabilities are one thing, priorities and resources are another. The Poser development team had the time and resources to make Alyson2 and Ryan2, both of which are weight-mapped. Miki 3 will be weight-mapped. Nothing else has even been hinted at or promised by SM. However, I am very willing to be (pleasantly) surprised.  :)

"isn't it universally agreed that now is the perfect time to produce such a figure?"

Yes it is. Thank you for reinforcing that point. Poser has never had more potential, and the market has never been more ready. With a range of Poser enabled figures from remade legacy content to newly made content that stretches the (perceived) limits of Poser, I believe that P9/PP2012 could out perform everyone’s expectations (financially and artistically).

"I don't think anyone's saying they're incapable, just that they tend to concentrate on the software programming."

Exactly. Not that I agree with this decision, but I do understand it. The Poser figures have never show-cased the full power of Poser. SM relies on the Poser content vendors and community to find out and demonstrate the full capabilities of this application.

I am really not trying to sound negative. I sense an enthusiasm among a lot of very talented people to do exactly this. I think it is the outstanding Poser community (professional, avocational, hobbyists, and dabblers) that give the value-added aspect to Poser that can really sell the application, and provide the content, methods, and results that makes Poser really worth buying and using. This is a great group of helpful and generous people.

Whether one is a long-time user, a former user returning, or a new user; I think now is a great time to be a Poser users.

lmk

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