Quote - Since this needs to be in a Q&A form...

 

1.  Is daz ever planning on updating DS4/Gene so it can run on machines with multiple users?

This is solely an install issue. the default is to install to your current user account. Some people see this as a feature because they may not want all users of a machine to have access to the same content. If you want all users of the computer to have the same content, install it to a shared directory or drive. I have my content on an external eSata drive and I use it not only with multiple accounts on the same computer, but on other computers both MAC and PC alike.  Its been so nice to have the same stuff available no matter what machine im working on... and I have quite a few

2.  Is daz ever going to update the interface on DS?  As a poser user I can't stand DS's interface or navigating around in it.

Im afraid it is what it is until some future version... be it DS5 or whatever. We have no intention of making it closer to Poser. Why would we... you have Poser if you want it to be Poser :D  We may add other styles or layouts as time goes on. Darkside is a good example that is quite popular... and we may have some other customization options in the works already.  All I can really offer is that the anecdotal evidence points to the notion that it takes a little getting used to, but it is great once you do.  If we changed it now, we would have an equally irate mob who like it as is.

3.  Has an option of a user easily exporting a posed Gene (including hair and clothing) as a SubDed object into a poser friendly format ever been considered?

Of course its been considered. that is essentially what our CR2 exporter is doing. If you are talking about exporting a higer rez Subdivided figure out instead fo the Genesis Base.. A) SubD and Subdivided are different. B)Poser has a different method of Subdivision that isnt compatible with the DAZ version of SubD... yet. and C) until that happens... a higher Rez Genesis would actually bend worse as more polys tried to cram into the tight areas during a bend.

4.  Did Daz ever fix the problem of your clothing converter stripping out movement morphs?  Older hair items will never work with gene until it is fixed.

It has been on the development list for quite some time and it actually made it into the pipeline this last week. We cannot promise the functiuonality some are dreaming of, but we will do the best we can with it.

5.  If a poser version of Gene becomes available, will there be sales on older Gene/V5 items as well as letting people with expired PC memberships return at the renew cost?  No new V4 stuff means for now, I'm probably going to let my membership expire and a lot of others have felt that way.  Basically I can't use Gene in my set up so there isn't much point in my buying things from Daz until I see something in the store that I like.  If I don't see things I like, there's no point in being in the PC.

We are good at sales. Im sure you will be happy when that day comes

6.  If SM and Daz couldn't be bothered to communicate before Gene was released, and given how much both companies need one another, why should I trust either in the future?  As soon as this Gene split goes away, if it does, it's easy to imagine both companies not talking again.

THis is a terrible misconception and unfounded rumour. We talked about Genesis over a year before DS4 came out and we are in constant communication these days to improve compatibility. 

7.  Considering most renders are of pretty, half naked women, NVIATWAS images, why make a gender neutral character that can morph?  Why not create another pair of female only and male only characters?  Likewise, has Gene been worth all the new headaches and such brought on by its arrival?

It is the way it is because we liked the idea. We wanted to demonstrate that Genesis could be anything from the first moment you looked at it which is also why its a plain gray, like clay... to inspire you to mold it and change it. There is a Genesis Male and Genesis Female in any case... If you prefer one over the other, you can set your peferences to load it that way

8.  Gene in its default form doesn't look very friendly to clothing creators, especially if you want to make an item that is trying to take a female's bouncy bits ino account.  Is anything going to be done to improve this?  What about for non-human forms?  If someone creates an item for Gene, are there V4 or M4 body morphs that will easily adapt that item for the older figures so a vendor can support both generations easily?

You are free to model on any shape you want. We just recommend that you correct to the base to make as many shapes as possible work better with your creation.

9.  Is there ever going to be a no-ears morph for people who want to do nekomimi, twilieks, and other things that don't have traditional human ears?

This is surprisingly difficult to do on Genesis with a morph. Smoothing away the ear will work somewhat as you see in the alien Exo morph in the creature pack... but the morph projection and texture distortion that result make for a poor user experience. GeoGrafting makes this very easy in one regard: getting rid of them... and very hard in another... matching the texture. The answer is that It isnt as easy as it seems and any way you do it there will be tradeoffs. The best solution is to geograft the ears away and create a custom texture for the graft to match the rest of the head. 

10.  SubD and dynamic items don't go very well together at times does genesis offer any solutions to that problem?

Not yet. We are researching our options and looking for answers to this issue