Robyn, I feel your pain.

Still, I think we need to put what has happened into perspective to really understand why things have played out as they have.

The early adopters are always about a year ahead of the great unwashed masses for any product/technology/whatever. The disappointment with Genesis did, indeed, prod a lot of people to action. The problem was, none of them had a clear plan of what to do or how to do it.

While a lack of marketing is certainly part of the situation, I don't think that can explain everything.

Antonia - I know you love her, Robyn, but I'm with the group that does not. I think, at the heart of the problem is the lack of an "official" morph set for her that vendors can use as their base is a deal breaker. I've posted before, the main morph set out there does not create the sort of changes I want in a character, so for me, she's not going to work. There are very few characters/textures out there for her, and many of us do not have the time/patience/abilities to create our own from scratch.

GND Anastasia is a beautiful figure that has actually proven someone with real skills can make a silk purse out of a sow's ear. However, since her initial release she has gone "THUD" due to lack of any of the promised products appearing for her. I'm not into girls wearing leather bras.

My own finger of blame for the above failures points at the WM version of V4. To me, this was the game changer. A figure for which I already had everything I needed has arrived with improved performance, and the need for me to buy absolutely NOTHING to make her ready to produce images today is just too seductive! Let's be frank... in the contest between the three figures, I can understand why the first two have been dropped like hot potatoes. No support, no support, vs no support needed!

And as far as new products for V4-WM... just what is it you are wanting? What can be done in clothing that the Outfitter program does not do to existing clothing? This, to me, was the beauty of the project: to make a popular figure into her own successor, thus saving the costs of having to re-tool. Somehow I don't think a new weight mapped bra is going to behave better than a converted one. Perhaps I am wrong, but someone is going to have to post some images that clearly demonstrate the difference to me.

While I would still support Antonia (if the mess with lack of standards and the lack of meaningful content for her can be cleared up,) I don't see much more being done with her. The development team has bled their souls into her, and no one else seems interested. It's sad, but that is how it appears to me.

I will support GND because I think she is a viable character. But again, the stuff to make her work has to be there. For me, both Antonia and GND have missed their windows of opportunity in terms of being "the next great figure." V4-WM is already there. I don't think you can equate a lack of new products for the WM version with a lack of acceptance. I have no idea how many times the WM kit has been downloaded for Poser Place, but I'm willing to bet it is a significant number.

Finally, as to creating products that exploit Poser 9/PP2012's abilities, it might interest you to know that I've got a male character ready for market that will be P9/2012 ONLY! The shaders have GC and SSS built in, and the creating involved scaling (which finally works right!) It takes a while for content creators to learn the ropes of the new technologies, and yes... it's been about a year for me to get my head around enough things to be able to do what I've finally done. (You were very kind in your comments about him when I posted my WIP thread a few days back.) He is truly a P9/PP2012 character from the ground up.

Patience. The genie is out of the bottle. It takes time to formulate wishes that will be really productive.

Please don't take anything I've said as being dismissive of the work people have put into these projects. I think it is just a shame the way the timing for the various projects has played out.

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