Not sure I am understanding the purpose of your post. Are you trying to get the complainers to be more understanding or get the rest of us to be more sympathetic? One thing I have learned, no matter how much you explain things, there is no making everyone happy.

Personally I see no issues with the DAZ business model, it's a business, they are not your friends and don't owe you anything. I use DS4/Genesis when needed and I use poser 2012 when needed. DS4 pro works fine, no stability issues, plugins work great, I don't need any documentation. The store works fine for me, I am able to reset my existing content if needed and on the rare occasion I need help, they have come thru. I will install DS 4.5 when all my plugins are updated (genX mostly).

I personally get real tired of the constant genesis doesn't work in poser, there are not enough gen 4 releases, DS4.whatever is a POS, DS will not run on my system, the DAZ store is screwed up, where is the documentation, I'm leaving, blah, blah, blah threads, especially when they word it as if since they are having the issue, EVERYONE is having the issue, get over it and move on.

Sure, there are features I would like to see in DS and Poser, so I contact the companies and request them

The biggest problem I see is that the majority of DS/Poser users are hobbyists that know nothing of what else is out there and as such judge everything based off their limited knowledge of the poser community. Give any of them a normal app that models and does renders and animation and have them create their own content and see how happy they will be then. LOL

As for weight mapping, it has been around for awhile, so it makes sense that it is finally in hobbyist apps

I use both poser 2012 and DS4pro as well as having Blender, 3DSMax, sketchup, mikshape, Silo, Carrara. Wings3d and zbrush installed and have used many others in the past.

Regards, Michael

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