Heh.

 

And that is the danger. To this point, DAZ has had the consession; a new Vickie came out, and their servers were hosed for 2-3 days after with all the purchases. But not this time. And it isn't like Draper is known for innovation, either. Morph injection, error correcting morphs, joint controlled morphs, all were creations of Poser geeks. Hell, even the bug that made conforming clothing possible was discovered and exploited by users first. And initially they were the province of the geeks. Now, not so much.

 

What's changed with this Poser release is that DAZ didn't have a figure ready to bombard us with, to trigger that 'get the new shiny!' reflex they've trained into too many. So now those old geeks are coming out of the woodwork. There are already at least 2 seperate figure projects that I'm aware of (outside the retrofit projects) that are working to establish a new benchmark. More and more users are -wanting- to use advanced features like dynamic cloth (particularly since some folks have experimented and worked out what all those numbers mean, and the mesh topology issues that have to be included to get the results you want). Now you have people -wanting- to use the material room; and all it took was BagginBill showing how it worked. Just like those old geeks showed their tricks. And now we have the chance to build and deploy a figure taking advantage of the new tricks P9/2012 can do. The community is what made Poser what it is. Now we have the chance to do it again, and not be restrained by a certain refusal to implement =any= feature outside of Poser 4's feature set. These are potentially Renissance times, not the End Of All(tm).

 

And no, obviously, I don't intend to switch to DS4. As wolf said, the animation controls are, for lack of a better word, worthless. A pity GoFigure! didn't get that Poser version of Animate done. Would have sold like crazy.......