Quote - They did not only buy Cararra, but they also took over part of the staff. Thinking that DAZ only buys up technology is giving them too less credit. They've got a software development team and not even a bad one. To be honest, their software development team may even be better then Poser's team.

 

DAZ's team was able to ubtangle Bryce and rewrite and improve it. They did the same with Hexagon. They're able to handle and improve Cararra. They wrote DS from scratch, rewriting it constantly and contantly improve it. Poser's team only does one application and while they have added some new features, but it's hardly anything, compared to what DAZ improves and adds each time to a new release. Not for one application as the Poser team does and not roughly once a year as Poser does, not counting some updates.

 

I'm not a DAZ advocate, most know that, but some people are giving DAZ way too little credit, even for my taste. Compared to what DAZ does, handles and manages, the Poser team are just a couple of high school kids working out of their garage. I just wish Smith Micro would take the situation more serious, instead of releasing mediocre updates each year. I know some still get excited about a Poser release, but compared to what Poser used to release with each new version, the last years have been mediocre, with the exception of version 8, that was pretty decent, but 6, 7 and now 2010 are hardly worthy of a full release number.

My memory is not that great with Studio's features, but weren't most of it's included features written by third party developers. I know the dynamic clothing modules are Optitex technology... right?

And now that you mention it, here's the other thing that bothers me about people who want Poser to adopt DAZ's technology. As you say basically Studio is always in development, trying to improve. So say Poser, adopts DAZ's Genesis technology. Now, they're forced to wait while DAZ's development team tinkers with it. Case in point, Autofit. I understand that it strips out the morphs  from the clothes it refits to Genesis, and DAZ is currently working to fix that. For the record, I've no problem with them working to improve things, but as SM has said, it makes Poser dependent on DAZ's technology. Poser only comes out every two years or so anyway. Won't they have to wait longer  to put out software while waiting for DAZ to fix what they broke, or put out an inferior product?

The one thing about Poser that I've always like was that the Mac version and the Windows version all had the same features. There was no waiting for a Mac version to come out two years after the windows version if it came out at all. DAZ is infamous for that. Obviously, as a Windows user, that probably doesn't bother some people, but if you're a Mac user, it would piss you off being treated like an afterthought, and not even a very important one at that.