Quote - > Quote - But, see, the "beginners need all the stuff" fails for one simple reason - those beginners use FREEBIES.  They don't shell out good money for quality products.  They stick to freebies until they decide whether or not they even want to keep the software installed.

And, DS loses the "beginner" war simply on the basis that there is no documentation.  Just try something for me.......go download a free piece of software you know nothing about and install it.

Then, try to run that software without any documentation.

You know what happens next - Control Panel>Remove Programs

Agree.  I'm just speaking as someone who remembers my venture into this.  The path I followed was simple - I downloaded the software, downloaded what DAZ gave me for free, joined the Plat Club and didn't spend more than $30.00 at a time for nearly a year. 

Then, when I wanted to get serious, I had to move to Poser because of the superior rigging, animating, and dynamics. 

 

 

And I am just the opposite. I started with 3DSMax, used other modeling apps and renderers, then discovered poser 5, then 6, then 7 and now have 2012 pro, yet I prefer doing my rendering in Luxrender most of the time, so I started using DS and now with DS4 pro and genesis, use it for most of my workflow as it is very versitile and saves time. I still use poser for dynamics and other uses, but I find DS4 pro to be the most beneficial for my scene setup workflow.

 

I am with joe pubilc, I would totally love to have the versatility of genesis in poser, but I find creating a custom morph for a figure in poser and then having to re rig clothing to fit it and include a morph for the custom figure to be way to time consuming when I can do this on the fly in DS4 pro.

I could care less for documentation, I learn everything by doing, so that is not a deal breaker for me.

Regards, Michael

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