Quote - As a vendor that creates a lot of characters here is my take on what it would take to make a new salable base character.

1. She has to look like a girl with a sweet, cute youthful girly face.

Not a tough masculine face. European not Asian, (but morphable into Asian and other ethnic looks) Sweet and hot like a cheerleader sells.

No matter how great her body is her face sells her first. Look at all the ads in the marketplace of the top selling products .Even the vendors buy those sweet girls to market their products with. Why? Because that type of face sells products.

2. She absolutely MUST morph into  both a voluptuous girl, busty, small waist, dreamy hips or slim and youthful. No boobs no sales for the base character.I know. I've tried marketing most of the "other characters".

3. She would need a weight mapped and a non weight mapped version. There are far more customers running older version of Poser that do not take weight mapping than there are that use it.

Strictly speaking from a vendor's standpoint. The absolute best thing that could happen for the marketplace would be an upgrade of Poser to support Genesis.

The market is so fractured from this rift it has cost all of us dearly.

It would be nice if everyone could play nice again.

These are my opinions as a vendor that would really like to see the market get stronger which would benefit everyone.

cheerio

lululee

 

Scew the grey blob. It is a solution in search of a problem.  

SM has made it quite clear that getting the grey blob into Poser is DAZ's problem.  Seeing DAZ in it's current state would YOU trust them not to screw something up?

Lululee - when I use your characters, the first thing I do is dial down the boobs and delete the tramp look.  I also have all of the young Euro-trash that I'll ever need.  What you call selling points are why I don't buy your figures anymore.      

Reciecup makes my black male & female figures.  All of the other vendors give me a Caucasian body features with black skin.

I need Asians - there is a very real difference between a Malaysian and a Korean and a Chinese figure  both Body and especially facial features.

I need Slavs, I need Indians, both types, I am tired of white folks - which is over 90% of the characters made.

As a customer, all I really need is a Wardrobe Wizard plug-in and some decent textures for the body.  I have already converted my entire V4 wardrobe so that any character can use it.

 Almost 50% of my renders are non-daz figures.  Statistically speaking only about 5 percent of the female population is V4 height and my storyboards reflect that