Quote - > Quote - FWIW, there is no "buying another app" involved, since DAZ says the exporter will be available for the free version. It's not really clear to me why DAZ couldn't just provide a CR2 of base Genesis, V5 etc; I assume there's a technical reason that can't be done.

But in the end, it would provide no more functionality than other weight mapped figures in Poser, except it would have a lower rez mesh. (I do wish Poser would deploy Catmull-Clark.) I guess that will be enough for some people.

 

It's very clear why they don't do it, nothing technical at all. If you can export through DS to Poser, then they can place it in the market as a stand-alone figure as well. The reason they don't do it is very obvious, they want you to use DS and hope you will get used to it.

Hey, you can use our figure in Poser, but you have to use and learn DS to get it there, let's be honest..... that is the most customer unfriendly thing there is and quite absurd if you think abiut it. The only reason for this is DAZ's hope to win people over to DS. If you're already doing half of the work in DS, why not go all the way?

 

So, nothing technical at all, pure marketing.

It's all down to business & greed. Originally the idea was for Genesis to work the same in DS & Poser, that way content would still work in either app no matter which one it was built in. SM however spotted the perfect opportunity to expand thier empire & 'kick' DAZ3d out of the Poserverse, by rejecting the DSF format they ensured that there wouldn't be a new DAZ figure to rival thier P9 figures, for the first time ever they 'might' actually get the monopoly on figure/content sales/support that has always belonged to Zygote/DAZ, as that is where the money is, however Mike's work with weight mapping 'Toni and V4 could be a problem for them .

DAZ have shown how niave they are thinking SM (thier rival) would accept the format, and now in a bit of a panic thier creating an exporter so that Poser9+ users can still use the new DAZ figure (and so they can try and hang onto thier monopoly), even though it'll be missing all of the bells & whistles it has in DS4. This will cause a couple of problems, first one being your going to need a copy of DS4 Express (the free version & Express is what they've been calling it in the doc's that come with DS ), this isn't a problem for most of us as we'll use any software we can get our hands on to do our work, it will be a problem for the 'fanatics' though.
The second problem is this could cause a split marketplace, any content made for the DS4 Genesis will work on the Poser version after you export it, but any content made in Poser won't work on the DS4 Genesis.