Quote - > Quote - Basically I like Genesis, but not the house it lives in.

Lyrra

Exactly. Even as just an end user.

Very well put. This is how I feel about it too I reckon.

My personal hope for Genesis / DS4 is that Daz will rewrite a version of it as a kind of advanced figure plugin for Poser... or rather bring out a stripped down version of DS4 that can work with or within Poser as a plug-in... somehow.

I've always thought, if they really were serious about Genesis becoming part of CG workflow, for higher end app users, even... e.g. of 3DS Max or Maya, etc, then that's how it should have been done... as a plug-in-able core that can be hooked into Poser, Cinema4d, Carrara, 3DS Max, or whatever, via an adaptable, host-app-specific middle layer.

I kind of wondered if the deeper API integration, that Paolo has negotiated to be put in place by SM, for the forthcoming Reality Studio 3 for Poser, may open up the playing field a little more here.

I appreciate this is almost certainly entirely wishful thinking... and gradual improvements in both the Daz supported CR2 Exporter, on the one side, in tandem with gradual enhancements by SM, to, I don't know, whatever might continue to limit Gen5 in Poser, such as subd or scaling... e.g. probably almost coincidental, convergence... is probably more likely the limit of where its going, relative to Genesis in Poser.