Quote - > Quote - The heart of my post - albeit badly eloquent - is this...

Poser 9/2012 is not selling well. No?

 *erm no. it's been stated that it's selling well. eg Baggins saying Amazon sold out of their order and then ordering in more. there's a lot of misinformation going around by all parties in the Poser Wars, but I think we can trust Baggins... *

I found Poser 8 via Amazon, from cold, with no prior knowledge of it. I bought Poser 9 on pre-order from there, after checking the specs at SM's Poser website.

I only became aware that there was a relatively new version of Carrara after placing my Poser order.

I had no knowlege of Daz Studio until after I had Poser and then discovering that the V4 and M4 figures were widely used (and had a lot of content) and were available from Daz.

How does that stack up commercially or in terms of sales flow... who knows? I sure don't...

I know that it does equate to the fact that I've invested in Poser prior to knowing of the new Daz figure, or understanding that it had been made in a way that isn't currently useable for me, within Poser. So, therefore, I'm just not likely to use it much for now.

Sure, I got the base parts for free, and I'll probably look at that, in its box, from time to time... for now. Keep an eye out for any interesting developments. Any additional choice of useable toolset is welcome...

But, whatever, I seem to have plenty other choices in terms of figure models... and apparently more on the way that are going to be optimised for the latest features in the version of Poser I have.

Am I in any way a typical new user / customer, no idea either... but probably, on some fronts at least.

My perception is that Poser had a very good, high profile product placement on Amazon around the point of the new version release... and still seems to several months later. Anyway... shrugs

Having read a little more, has anyone, maybe slightly more technical, who is actually interested in using Genesis in Poser, and has Poser 2012, tried using the free, standalone Autodesk FBX converter to take an FXB export from DS4, convert it to COLLADA, and then import that to Poser?

http://download.autodesk.com/us/fbx/2013/FBXconverter/index.html

http://usa.autodesk.com/fbx/download/

Apologies if this has already been covered off here, and I just haven't picked up on it...

EDIT: Is this back to the issue of subdivision, primarily?