Quote - > Quote - Also, by making Genesis proprietary (it only works in Daz Sudio 4) they found themselves in the position of preaching to a rather small choir.  Even DS3 users who tried and dropped DS4 had to decide between doing without Genesis or using a prog they didn't like. The same choice as faced by many Poser users, actually.

Well DAZ did offer the details to Smith Micro, whatever you may think of their expectations that the offer would be accepted, and appear to be working to get the format supported in other apps. It's not that they want it to be proprietary, just that so far it is (ignoring Carrara 8.5 beta, another DAZ application).

 

There have been multiple times where DAZ officials have stated that genesis is a platform and not a figure. So to be able to fully support it other software companies have to redesign their software to accomodate genesis. It is NOT a simple matter of an ex/importer. So supporting genesis means each application has to redesign their software possibly breaking their support for other platforms.

This is something which most companies will not choose to do. At best there will be a sub-level of support in it in which the figure will not look as good as intended. Another reason not to go for it.

If there will be any full support for genesis (apart from Studio and Carrara) it will be quite some tiime before it will be released.