Quote - I know a few changes/bug fixes have been made in the CR2 exporter itself in DS4.5 - but I have heard nothing with regards to the process itself.

I'm in the process of setting up a machine which I hope to isntall DS4.5 on, and my son (nearly 11 years old now!) is off on a school holiday for the week - so I am HOPINg to get some time to play with 4.5 RC2 specifically.

(please note not a promise. I don't do promises well unless I can make them after the fact).

Quote - Has DAZ give any indication whatsoever that they are going to improve the conversion process? I mean updating the Poser Format Exporter, writing a tool/script to add morphs, adding Genesis/V5/M5 fittings for Poser in hair/props and mat files.

DAZ hinted at something that could do that months ago - I can try and badger them about it but I don't always get happy smiley responses when I do that :(

Part of my reason for setting up a PC specifically for DS4.5/Genesis testing is that the scripting SDK is supposedly shipped with DS as of version 4.5, so it's possible - unlikely, but possible - that I'll be able to start dabbling with DS scripting sometime in the latter half of this week. Using an IDE I've never seen and a language I've never seen, I expect it to be a compelte bust. We'll see - so far this year whenever I try and do anything significant my day jopb gets busy and I have $expensive$ clients to cater for. Which is good for me, but not so good for Poser/DS ... experiments :(

No - I'm not feeling pressured into learning to do scripting that DAZ should have done months ago - I'm interested, so I hope to take a peek, if the time remains available.

Quote - Getting the figure (once the morphs are added) into Poser is now easy. Clothing (if compatible) is easy as well. But having to go via PFE for each and every individual pose or mat file and making thumbnails for them is a very tiresome process which could be automated easily

I don't have any news that I can give you there, I'm afraid :(

Cheers,

Cliff