drifterlee opened this issue on Nov 02, 2011 · 273 posts
wolf359 posted Thu, 03 November 2011 at 2:59 PM
"You keep forgetting that DAZ is/was for Poser users a content developer."
I have been a poser user since fractal designs poser 2 exporting obj files to render in Metacreations bryce3d 2
I have not "forgotten" anything
that was the past I am commenting on the present.
"They are now integrating the two together, making it incompatible with programs like Poser. So the main reason for Poser users being "upset" is the loss of a content provider and the market force it uses to drive other content providers away from making Poser content - not the features of the figure".
Well the argument could be made that the features/Quality ,thus popularity ,of a figure is what has Driven Content providers towards it.
but honestly that is a rather "chicken or the egg" debate, tough to prove either side.
"Having intermediate steps - like a DS4 CR2 exporter, DS4 Poser Format Exporter and a 3rd party Autofit tool - is probably too much for what advantages this new figure will give."
Too much for you perhaps, but some poser users have Dropped $70 USD on the V5 bundle already in hopes of getting something better than a Sims game resolution, bald naked "genesis"figure in poser pro 2012/P9..someday.
"DAZ must have me as a customer for DS1,3 and 4 in their database. None of them lasted longer than a few weeks on my harddisk. Free programs have very little value in a market share analysis"
True but under the old paradigm you never actually needed DAZ studio to use Mike3 or "the GIRL"
V5 and her content on the other hand....
Cheers