@vintorix : Many thanks to you, too. Good to see my ramblings make sense to somebody else besides me. :-)

 

@monkeycloud: Thank you !

And guess what: I 100% agree with you. Of course purpose built figures are better.

It's like a tailor made suit vs store bought.

If I'd ever win the lottery, I'd hire two dozend people, thin, fat, average, muscular, kids, teens, adults, old ones and let them be laser scanned from head to toe.

Then I have a mesh built as versatile as the 3rd Gen Unimesh and turn that scanning data into Poser figures, rigged in the best possible way.

And then have a small army of Chinese CGI artists make clothing for all of them. LOL.

And then set up my own store and sell them cheap so that everyone using Poser could afford truly realistic figures. 

Or maybe just give them away if it was a really big lottery win. :-)

 

BUT.....

In the real world, purpose built figures are very hard to upkeep.

My figures can share textures and expression morphs, but pretty much everything else is too specific to be shared.

It would just be too much for the average user to do all the necessary conversions or for the time and money struggling merchant to create clothes for them.

We pretty much had that system with M3, V3, David, SP3, Freak, Aiko, Hiro, Luke, Laura, Matt, Maddie and the MilBaby.

The result was that except for V3 and Aiko, the other figures were hardly supported.

The Genesis idea is not perfect by a long shot, but I think it is what will work best giving the hobbyist nature of the Poserverse.

The "pro" users will find different and often better solutions, but by the end of the day it's the casual users who generate the income.