Okay, DAZ changed the head whatever.  But, where there will be some changes made is still an open question.  Genesis came at a bad time, when Poser was working on the weight mapped figures, proceeding ahead on their own path which didn't correspond with DAZ.  And that's normal.

Not so much if DAZ and Poser users will divide sharply and completely, that probably won't happen.  What also won't happen is a Gen 4 version of the milkids, which may not be too far from understandable, support for the kids is less than clothes for the guys.  Nor will we have a Gen 4 David, which I use rarely, but occasionally.

The biggest gripe for me is about the time I finally learn to navigate the nightmare interface of DS, out comes a new "update", which is not an update, but a new version.  It may contain little but a couple of bug fixes, and yet another incomprehensible interface.  The first release of DS4 was the first I was able to do anything with, find my way around the interface, but within a month, the cry and hue of the DS users convinced DAZ to change it, several times since, and I haven't bothered to try it again.  It's almost like DS was in perpetual alpha stages, more work to try to keep up with than it's worth to me.  Repeat, to me.

Genesis is about one half step from useless in Poser, and Miki 3 can't be used in DS, touche.  Miki might not be the best figure ever put out, I don't use her, don't know, but I don't use oriental figures to begin with.  Aiko, have her, never used her, same with The Girl, not into that.  I do use the older poser figures, I use V3 some, V4 less.  Mike 3 a bit, Mike 4 less.  James isn't bad, Don is still usable, but more work.  Judy, I still use.  None of these figures are perfect, and V 5 won't be either.  There are some times I wish the poser figures bent better, but most of the time, they're under dynamic cloth and the real faults aren't seen.  Genesis wouldn't be one bit better for those uses. 

I sometimes think the support for the older figures will be pulled, but I have a lot already, I don't really see the need for nine tenths of what's being released.  Poserworld lifer here, they have a lot of support for a lot of figures.  How long that will continue, I have no idea.  Like the Gen 1 and 2 figures, there will come the day when a lot of content for 3 and 4 will be pulled from the stores, more or less forcing the end of them.  Such is the way of progress. 

DS isn't as costly as Poser, but also isn't as versatile, with the things it lacks.  as it stands now, someone watching Purplus would have seen PP2010 there for less than fifty bucks over the last weekend, less than DS4 standard.  The dynamic cloth in DS is available from one source as of now, and isn't compatible with Poser dynamics.  Nor will DS use Poser cloth, touche again.  There is no dynamic hair for DS, so the reason it's not as expensive isn't hard to see. 

Poser isn't the Rolls Royce of figure manipulation, it's probably a high end Chevy.   But with the state of DAZ right now, DS is the Yugo.  If they straighten out what's wrong with the program, stabilize the interface, then concentrate on the new figures, the change will have had some effect to the good.  If not, then it's just more of the same old same old.

The "I" in Doric is Silent.