The problem isn't so much whether V5 is Poser compatible or not, the problem is that V5 is not Poser compliant. There is nothing wrong with Poser (or S/M) when a figure made by another developer, and designed to specifically work with the features of another application, does not work well or at all in Poser.

Poser has its own open standards, and any developer can use those standards to make content that is perfectly Poser compliant and totally Poser enabled, even though this has been rarely done (hint to S/M). This is as true for weight-maps, bulge-maps, animatable joint origins, and P8/PP2010 rigging improvements, as for any of the older features of Poser. Bridging to Poser is also simply a matter of expressing a figure's features in, or translating them to, a Poser compliant format. There are no secrets in any of the Poser file formats. The data of all the files can be viewed in any text editor.

Naturally, because of the amazing variability of human creativity, no two programs are alike. So, some figures designed specifically to work in one program may have features that cannot be reproduced in another application (or at least not well enough to bother). Presently in Poser, V5, as a morph of Genesis, will not work as it does in D/S if Genesis will not work in Poser as it does in D/S, which it doesn’t.

Really, D/S 4.0 is designed for Genesis, and Genesis is designed for D/S. To whom is this not obvious? Well, now you know. This is so much so, that the figure can only be loaded onto a system by installing some version of D/S 4.X. At present it can only be exported (with a few of its features, but not all) to Poser from within D/S 4.X. This is especially true if one wants to have (limited) use of the morphs available for Genesis. As it works out, I suppose coincidentally, one must open and use D/S at least to some degree, in order to use any Genesis related content in Poser.

I cannot blame DAZ3D for trying to get SmithMicro to rewrite Poser so that one version of the Genesis/v5 figure would work in both programs the same way. This would provide the widest possible marketablility of Genesis with the least cost to DAZ. I do not blame S/M for not taking DAZ up on that "generous" offer. So at present there is only one version of Genesis/v5.

Poser people who want to use Genesis/v5 in Poser are hard at work breaking down the barriers, solving the problems, and overcoming the difficulties of using V5, in P9/PP2012. This is typical of the Poser breed of users. They get done what DAZ and S/M have not done, and they share it or sell it (which isn’t wrong at all) to others who want to do the same.

So, can V5 be used in Poser 9 and Poser Pro 2012? Yes, in a limited way. However, this is likely to change as the creative and innovative Poser community adapts the product for its own use. I would say, “Stay tuned.”

lmk

 

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