Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL


Subject: Are die-hard Poser users going to switch to Daz Studio for VIvky 5?

drifterlee opened this issue on Nov 02, 2011 · 273 posts


Eric Walters posted Thu, 03 November 2011 at 10:41 PM

 No

But it is not an either or choice. The all in one figure aspect-has not really pulled me in. The superb weight mapping/ joint setup (rigging) has impressed me. The V5 morph is also superb.

 Switch?

I'm having too much fun playing with the new nodes in Ppro2012. I like the skin renders I'm getting. BagginsBill has opened my eyes to some of the possibilities. So I've made my own teeth and eye SSS node setups (over on the RDNA forum).

Also the dynamic cloth has calculates faster- great! I've yet to try the hair creation.

I installed Daz to try out Genesis bending. A huge improvement! The V5 character looks lovely-and human- right out of the box.

That said-I've recently added Zrbrush to my tool set- and have been having fun making new characters out of V4 and M4.Also learning to make my own hi res skin textures-although I've put that aside to play with PoserPro2012

Switch? No-but I can see using DS4 -if I can get it to move beyond the Poser4 rendering quality. I've seen some pretty decent renders-I guess they were done with the DazStudioPRo version-and lots of add ons.

 If they can export a high res version of V5 with similar bending qualities-then I expect I'll buy V5. It opens up the morph making possibilities.

If they make a hosting plugin for Lightwave- I could see exporting Genesis/V5 to render in LW. If they make Daz Vue friendly- that would also be an inducement to use Daz and V5 more.