Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL


Subject: Hi! DAZ 3D wants to chat.

DAZ_Rand opened this issue on Dec 09, 2011 · 1133 posts


PrecisionXXX posted Wed, 14 December 2011 at 12:03 PM

Both here and at the DAZ forums, the same things are being discussed, but with slightly different results.  Here, warnings that things might be getting out of hand, DAZ, another locked thread.  Impossible to really tell if it was getting too heated, or if it was starting to grate on a raw nerve because it addressed points that DAZ really would rather not discuss. 

One point that I, and many others have brought out, DS has no documentation.  Depending on a wiki or YouTube and the users to do what should have been done internally and before the program was released is just passing the buck.  Like saying "Okay, those that have stumbled across the fumble pile and figured it out can tell you, so we don't have to."  Fine for freeware, but when DS4pro and PP2012 are only a few dollars apart, totally unacceptable. 

Granted, DAZ is probably tired of hearing the same old complaints, which brings up the question of why aren't those matters being addressed?  There are problems with installers, there are problems with some instabilities in the program which I can understand DAZ can't look inside every computer and know the exact configuration it has to work with. 

One area  of particular interest and irritation, dynamic cloth, which I know they're probably tired of hearing about.  That doesn't negate the fact that a single vendor source of dynamic cloth is totally unacceptable. 

Another area, a bug fix isn't just a bug fix, it's a complete new version, and the necessity to relearn where the different functions are hidden this time.

Genesis shows some capability, but still gives me the impression it was rushed to release before it was really ready to be released.  As it comes, doing much beyond a classic  T pose and letting it go at that is going to require healthy injections of the coin of the realm.  More expensive than the Gen 4 figures, and still with problems that haven't, and in my guess, probably won't be addressed.  Third parties will be doing this.  Again, unacceptable. 

Poser has come a long way since P5, when I got started with it.  P5 wouldn't even run without the updates.  PP2012 seems to be stable, I haven't crashed it yet, not that I haven't tried.  It also isn't a new version three or four times a year, but more like every couple of years, which is fine.  It tells me the changes are thought out, the bugs looked at and most caught before it's released.  Nobody should have to point at the contrast.

The "I" in Doric is Silent.