Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL


Subject: O.T. Mangement Shakeup at DAZ inc.

wolf359 opened this issue on Nov 22, 2011 · 296 posts


Tomsde posted Tue, 29 November 2011 at 5:37 AM

I agree with Bantha, there is plenty that comes with Poser to keep a newbie occupied.  Even if you don't like Allyson and Ryan--you have other options and lots of toon characters.  Even  Poser Debut comes with 3 gigs of content--good for the beginner.  I guess as a seasoned user I have more of a difficulty that there isn't much new content in each subsequent Poser release; it's mostly stuff I've had for years.  As I said in a preceding post, if you add the value of all the added content the program itself is a steal.  $250 of content won't get you too much.  There is also tons of free Poser stuff out there, granted it's not always of the highest quality, but if a person doesn't have extra money to spend one can "make do" with free stuff.

Daz Studio was originally taking a "modular" approach, that is it orginally lacked even some basic tools that needed to be purchased separately.  Now it includes a lot of things "under the hood" that used to be for pay add-ons.

I'm really not sure what we are debating here.  I think this thread went off in a weird direction.  It perhaps should be renamed "Can we live without Daz content."  The answer to that depends on the person.  If Daz suddenly collapsed in on itself like a house of cards Poser would go on; new items from other 3D vendors would arise to take their place.  A better question would be "Do we want to live without Daz content?"  I really don't want to live without Daz because they have so many good things, but it seems to me that Genesis will be an endless money pit for me and Poser is my software of choice, not Daz Studio--so it remains to be seen what will happen.