onimusha opened this issue on Mar 12, 2012 · 137 posts
Vestmann posted Wed, 14 March 2012 at 8:31 AM
Quote - Thank you Male_M3dia
Wonderful to meet at least one professional person amongst all the nay sayers. For me it is quite obvious that you have to work with both programs for a time. That doesn't mean that you have to learn ALL Daz. In fact the little you need to know (as a user not vendor) can be learned over the week-end.
Smith-Micro didn't have to buy the whole package. If they only had done subdivision it would had been tremendous useful and not only for Genesis. Well to have to subdivide in another program isn't too much trouble I guess no problem. It will only be my umpteen work around in my 20 years with computers. Or perhaps that was bragging?
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"most people are dragged kicking and screaming into the future"
No one needs to work with both programs for any period of time. That's like saying you have to drink Coke & Pepsi until they unite their flavors. For whatever reason, Daz chose to make Genesis Daz Studio ONLY. That doesn't mean that the Poser community has to jump through hoops to get her to work in Poser.
If it's weight mapping people are after, the Poser community has V4WM and in a while M4WM. Poser users have the choice of using the majority of their legacy V4 content with V4WM in Poser. Other legacy WM figures will be added in the future.
By the community.
This is something content makers should consider.
You can see from the posts above that the likelihood of Genesis being a viable figure for Poser in the near future are slim to none and, quite frankly, I don't think the Poser community cares. In general, I don't think people like it when someone says 'you have to use this' or 'you have to do that' and saying 'nay' to that doesn't make you a 'nay sayer' ;)
Plus, the only reason people have to use Genesis in Poser is to be able to buy (and convert) all new morph packages, character mats and clothing whereas the reason for using V4WM and the Outfitter is to be able to use all your legacy content with weight mapping with no extra cost. This could also be reason why new V4 content is still in great majority over Genesis content.
You can't dictate to people what they should buy or use. You have to offer them something they are interested in and right now the majority of the Poser community doesn't seem to be interested in Genesis.