Quote - DAZ has this new incredible model that does more than any of their previous models ever did... but they made it application specific. In order to use this model you can ONLY use it to its fullest capabilitity in one single application.

They screwed themselves with getting a full customer base. They now have to target newbies non-stop.

Well, if the other applications (okay, Poser) are (is) unable to use that figure to its fullest, whose fault is that? 

Let me give you a ferinstance in real life here. Microsoft has .doc, .xls, .ppt, and other MS Office file formats. Is it up to Microsoft to make it so that everyone else's applications are able to read/write it? Nope. It's up to all the other app makers to be able to read it. 

Same with PDF files, .MAX files (sound familiar?), .my files, you name it. 

As for what Poser did? I shouted myself hoarse about that years ago. The forum rats and the PTB there decided otherwise. TBH, I consider myself blameless for what's become of it.

Quote - And as someone heavily invested in this whole thing I sat by and watched this all come about.

Meh - I still use DS 3.x for the most part... but only because I can't stand the oversized DS4 UI, and Poser still feels too damned slow, UI-wise (my computer is a Core i7 w/ a mid-range GeForce and 8GB of RAM, so it ain't the machinery).

After watching 'em do waht they wanted in spite of urgning otherwise, I sat by and quite frankly stopped giving a shit what the Poser team did. As long as my existing software still works, I'm happy. I may shift to DS4 eventually, but only if I get enough time to do a bit of research, fix the stupid UI, and make my own mod of it so that I can find it usable again. That of couse changes if someone beat me to it.

Quote - We have painted ourselves into a corner.

Yep. They'll just have to learn to un-paint themselves.