ravenous opened this issue on Dec 10, 2011 · 60 posts
ravenous posted Wed, 14 December 2011 at 7:12 AM
Quote - What Genesis does is bring some potential to easily create 'custom' figures to the average user. If you want a child sized Aiko cat faerie or whatever, you can create one yourself. ...
IMO Genesis really makes the idea of discrete figures like V4 rather obsolete. You could use the default V5 as is I suppose, but the true potential lies in thinking of it/her as just another set of DNA for the gene pool to be combined in creating unique figures.
I agree that the idea of a generic character that can be molded into anything you want is a great idea. But I do wonder if that idea actually is going to be practiced by the average Poser/DS user. You can make your own character, 25% V5, 25% Aiko, 25% Troll and 25% Body builder. But there won't be any content available for it.
My point is that there are a limited set of commercial morphs for V4. We have Morphs++, Aiko, The Girl and Elite (and probably a couple of more which I can't think of right now). If I develop content for V4 with said morphs I can be fairly safe in assuming my product can be used by most V4 customers. But even if Genesis is meant to be all generic and dynamic, there is no way to develop generic content for Genesis the same way. I, as a vendor, would still have to create morphs so it will fit the different Genesis characters. Like, just because I model shoes for V4 Base doesn't mean they will automatically fit Aiko or any of the Elite characters for V4. I would have to create those morphs for the shoes. So if I model a pair of shoes for Genesis, it doesn't mean they will fit either V5 or whatever Fairy-Ogre-Aiko morph people will come up with. There is simply no way of making content for Any-crazy-Genesis-character-you-can-think-of.
I suppose we will see a new generation of character morphs for Genesis as we already seen with V5. There's going to be M5, Aiko5, The Girl 5 etc. And so we can make content for those morphs. So unless people are willing to model it themselves, there won't be any content for a unique Cat-Fairy-Aiko-Ogre available anyway.
My vulgar conclusion is therefore that people will end up using Genesis with whatever commercial morphs DAZ will provide, such as V5, M5, Aiko5 etc. And we're back to where we are now. There will be content for different characters available, and no Fit-Any-Genesis-Content. Just as there is no Fit-Any-DAZ-Character-Content available today.