Probably the biggest issue you'll have in learning DS4, is the lack of proper documentation. Yeah, even after all this time, they still don't have a manual, and features still change from version to version, which is every other month.

They don't even really even have complete documentation on the materials anywhere that I even know of.

From a content creator/marketing standpoint, you can develop your items for poser, and they will pretty much work in ds, unless they have busted features.

Working with genesis, you only end up with a DS4 product, halving your potential customer base.

There is a lot of info out there on DS, but much is out of date now, and locating it can really be a challenge.

So I stick with poser based content creation for now.. I don't have the time to spend researching an app that doesn't even have proper documention or instructions.

BTW, netherworks has a great python utility for poser2012 that converts your materials into working ds materials, so converting your poser products to DS is pretty easy.

 

Way too many people take way too many things way too seriously.