Quote - > Quote - Now, it may be that the two programs will eventually converge again, but that hasn't happened yet.  Maybe it will happen, and maybe it won't.  But screaming at DAZ about something over which it has NO control at allis not going to make that happen.

I think that's one of the main things everyone is upset about...they did have control over it and chose to make a product that was not compatibible with a program that a good percentage of their paying customers use.

Well, only to a limited extent.  DAZ wanted to move beyond the very ilmited "Poser system," which has not changed significantly since... when?-- 2002?  2003? Poser's rigging system was grossly outmoded even back as far as 2003 or so, if not sooner.  Was DAZ supposed to go on waiting forever for Smith Micro tp adopt something better?

I, too, am uphappy over the divergence of the two programs, simply because I don't believe the market is big enough to "support" two separate collections of figures and contnet. 

On the other hand, I recognize that "moving on" to a better and more sophsticated system was long overdue.  It just so happens that DAZ was the first one to "move on"-- and Smith Micro, for reasons of its own (which may be entirely valid and reasonable) chose not to move as far, and not to move in the same direction.

At this very early point in the whole thing, it is FAR too early for people to be screaming at either company  For God's sake-- P9 and PP2012 have been out only a couple of months, and the same applies to DS4 and Genesis.  What do people expect-- that complex issues regarding radically different software are going to be resolved overnight?  Well, they won't be.  They can't be.  Even if DS and Poser again become fully compatiable, it isn't going to happen overnight.  It's going to take months, maybe even a year or two. 

And in the interim?  Is anyone going to DIE because V5 (which, again, is just a morph of Genesis) won't work in Poser?  Is anyone going to DIE because figures created with Poser's new system won't work in DS?  Is the world going to end?  Is the universe going to collapse into one gigantic black hole that will be the end of all existence?

No. 

All I'm saying is, for God's sake, have some patience!  P9 and PP2012 have only been out for a couple of months, and DS4 and Genesis have only been out for about the same time, and it is far too soon to be getting all upset about it.