Quote - I'm not paid for any of my work on this. Unlike the other figure creator mentioned in this thread, I do not do this for a living. I'm involved in this project because basically people are keen to see this figure succeed, Poser succeed and that is my whole motivation.

If you want it to succeed, you're going to have to work at it, because it won't magically grow itself. If you're hoping for some sort of inagined swelling of rebellion against a product or a company to sell it for you, you're liable to be in for a disappointment.  

You have a very small window of opportunity until the whole G thing is adapted to Poser. Once that closes, so does the opportunity. 

Quote - They are the big names: I'm nobody. All I do is shaders, and even that, with HUGE help from someone who actually understands shaders. I'm just transcribing.

You know? Even the smallest player can be critical in making the biggest contributions. It's all about attitude, just like the lowly brick-maker who sees and wonders at the cathedral he's making - even while waiting for the very first bricks to finish baking.

Wasting your time in here arguing over how good your project is or how evil/bad/whatever someone else's is... and for mere and ethereal debating points?

Those are distractions, and they tend to pull the mind and the eye away from the prize. They hamper discovery, and burn creativity that can be put to use elsewhere. 

 

Quote - She proved a point.

That someone else can make a mesh with better joints? Okay... but tell me: who is actually going to care, especially if it becomes some neglected and ignored-by-the-world project a year or two from now? Unless you put the efforts in now, and work to make it bigger and better on its own merits, it won't mean squat to anyone but you and a small handful of people 5 years from now. 

BTW, in case you haven't noticed, I'm not a friendly guy, but the reason is clear enough, even (I trust) to the mods:  I'm trying to motivate you. To push you into getting on the ball and helping to build a better product. To stop wasting electrons in pointless debate (and stop feeding the grudge-happy among us), and to put that energy where it belongs... in the project.

It's a good start, but it has a lot of work left before it can hope to compete. You have, as mentioned, a short span of opportunity to position it where it can become something bigger than you could ever hope. Once the competition slides into Poser with its latest and greatest, you're not going to have that opportunity any more.

Thus, time is wasting.