Quote - I cannot give any plausible explanation for why the conversion is specifically and intentionally not present in Poser.

It may not have been intentional. As part of my old job, I sometimes had to write specifications. The most important requirements are easy to put on paper, but sometimes some of the little details get lost because there's usually a rush to write a spec. Some of the missed items get caught in the review process, but ocasionally a few things aren't there when the it goes out on contract.

Or maybe SmithMicro didn't know how much content was still available that would no longer show up correctly in the library. I don't really know.

I started working on a zombie apocalypse image for the Halloween contest here. I decided to do one with zombies assailing an M1 tank with soldiers on top protecting a family holding onto the tank's railing. Nearly everything that I added to the image didn't have PNG thumbnails: DAZ M1 tank, Michael 2 (to use Billy-T's Ranger uniform), Victoria 3 & Millennium Kids (because I have more clothes for them than newer models), Grim & RawArt zombie texture for Grim (still the best zombie I've seen), Viper's M9 pistol, and the Mask-da Mask M4A1 rifle. By the time I start adding character morphs, clothing, and textures, I'm using over a dozen files that no longer show thumbnails in Poser. Outside of the Ranger uniform and guns, all the content is still for sale at DAZ.

Something SmithMicro needs to keep in mind is that Poser users, in general, are older than DAZ Studio users. Somebody new to 3D figure art is going to find it cheaper to dip a toe in the waters with a free program than a $200 program. Since Poser users generally have been around longer than DAZ Studio users, they're more likely to have a lot of older content. It would be nice to have that content show up correctly in the $200 program because it still works perfectly fine in the free one.

My visual indexes of Poser content are at http://www.sharecg.com/pf/rgagnon