Quote - > Quote - > Quote - Randall, do you have any "solid" information as to whether Smith Micro may reconsider making the DS4/Genesis system available within Poser, or whether there will be some sort of plug-in for Poser that would achieve the same thing? 

shouldn't you direct that question at SM and not a third party?

I would not consider DAZ-Rand as a third party, because as a spokemen of DAZ here, he is rather second or first party of all the involved parties (first party would be the developers/product managers). Second, as far as i see it, SM is a big company specializing in something having to do with mobile communications, probably nobody understands what it is good for (stockholders included), the Poser staff being only a very small part of it, probably completely fitting into one or two cubicles; DAZ on the other hand is a small company (i do not know how small, 100 people perhaps?), but working entirely on 3d stuff. So innovations and ideas and willingness to kick in some doors are more likely to come from DAZ than from SM; they not only have more time for it, but they are also courageous enough to take higher risks to do something new (as they have proven with genesis) at the cost of some compatibility issues here and there. That includes ideas of how to get genesis into other programs as well. My suggestion: when DAZ wants to get genesis into Poser they should lock one developer of DS4 and one of Poser (nobody at SM would notice someone missing there) into one room and let them figure out how to put the dsf import into Poser. Cannot be so difficult since both formats do practically the same. And of course, they should try to keep the lawyers out of it as long as possible. I have seen many good technological innovations turn into dust, just because some lawyers who make a living by inventing long and complicated contracts (NDAs and such) were involved too early.

 

We are only about half the size of your estimate.