Amnesia runs amuck. Genesis In Poser GiP (feel free to use the homophonic pun if it makes you feel better), GiP was always the plan. DAZ made overtures to SM and SM declined - remember, like WWII, it was in all the papers. What form that GiP would have taken I don't know, but I assume that if it required SM's cooperation, the integration would have been pretty tight. 'Poser Heaven' is Plan B. No doubt defections and torchlight pitchfork conventions may have added incentive but ... If you think that they ever intended to give up a lucrative market, please pass the joint. What form GiP v.2.0 will take, I don't know. DAZ has certainly heard from enough Poser users (at least the crowd here) that they'd sooner poke hot needles in their eyes than use DS. It may be a plugin or a standalone importer, who the hell knows except them. Maybe they'll simply start releasing traditional figures and morphpacks based on Genesis (though that may be Plan C). Putting all of the Genesis functionality in a plugin seems pretty daunting. They're doing Genesis for Carrara, but they own that code. Whatever it is, I agree with Laurie, if it's good enough, people will use it. In the long run, The dead enders who prefer purity over practicality probably won't amount to a rounding error in the bottom line.

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