Quote - It's no help that some subjects are simply taboo on the DAZ forum. How do you keep a populess ignorent? By controling the media.

Politics and religion are the forbidden topics. App wars are also forbidden, but that doesn't preclude civil discussions of features. There's certainly no bar to discussing installers - there is indeed an active thread on the subject. > Quote - DAZ has decided to take the entire process out of your hands. Yes, the virtual store. I have only read a thin out line of it and even that scares me.

The way it reads you will have to have CMS installed to actually shop at DAZ. Daz will download and install your purcahes for you. CMS will be used to update installed content.

Do to the sketchy description of this I am making a lot of assumtions; not as many as you may think though.

To update your curant content DAZ will have to know just what you have. CMS tells DAZ this. So an update comes out for some DAZ fetishware, CMS checks your content folder, then your purchas history, then updates it once it has been verified you bought that content at DAZ. Sound like a DRM? And what happens if CMS finds some DAZ content in your folder you have no purches history for? Good luck starting studio again. {yes that part is supasition}

Actually it's all supposition. The update process could be all push, from the store, with the user then choosing what to install. The CMS may be used to avoid bothering users with update notices for things that aren't installed, but it needn't be and we currently don't know how the system is planned to work (still less what will survive the implementation stages). > Quote - So you go through the purches process and DAZ auto downloads and installs the content for you. But what if you don't run a content folder or CMS? Poser doesn't use a content folder or CMS, so just how are Poser users going to shop at DAZ? I run a minimal content folder because I use carrara, I work with poser format in a poser runtime. Easy solution carrara 8.5 will be pushing carrarests to a studio content folder, say good by to your runtimes.

Perhaps, since Randy did say we'd be able to get the files on one machine and transfer to another, non-connected, work machine we will have enough flexibility to avoid any problems here. After all DAZ has said it has no wish to abandon the Poser market - that implies support for Poser format content, organised in Runtime folders. > Quote - So being a long time studio user you have your content folder sorted to suit the way you work. With out everything in the right place how is the auto updating going to work. Is it? Or will it reset your content to get everything in the right place to update or install to? remember CMS is not Conten Management system, it is content management service. Meaning DAZ will be managing your content for you. Say good by to your way of organizing a content folder.

Service means it's a service - a process that runs in the background and communicates with one or more user applications (Carrara and DS, for instance). It doesn't imply anything about what it does, or what they do with the information.