Quote - Also let's not forget that from a vendor's point of view, creating content for Genesis is completely different then creating content for pre-Genesis figures. For the Genesis you need a completely different toolset, skills and way of doing things. A vendor who wants to go from V4/M4 to Genesis, needs a good knowledge of DS and needs to learn a whole new way of getting the clothes modelled to work for Genesis. If like me, you're used to creating content with the help of Poser and only use DS for testing if it works and looks fine in DS as well, then creating clothes for Genesis is quite a huge step and quite a daunting task. I haven't gotten myself so for to do it yet...... I'm looking at it, but I'm not keen on having to re-learn everything. Took me a long time to master poser and creating clothes for poser figures, so doing it all again in DS just because of Genesis, isn't too apealling at the moment.

 

The only thing I don't like is how certain vendors who used to create content (mostly figures) for Poser, that worked fine in DS also, now suddenly have switched to DS and create figures and content for DS only. For them there doesn't seem to be a middle way and suddenly all of their loyal customers for years aren't worth serving anymore. As a customer that ticks me off...... we helped building a business and gave support for years, only to be abandoned in the end. That's a shame and it doesn't need to be so at all.

 

That's a good point, aeilkema.

I think this divide has hit the vendors hardest. They used to sell a clothing set to the entire DAZ Studio - Poser customer base. Now, they're selling to half that customer base from the start unless they make the same set rigged for both DAZ Studio and Poser which is probably a big investment of time they won't get paid enough for.

I have read some great clothing makers like Luthbel say it's a lot easier to rig for Genesis than Gen4. I love their work and don't begrudge them for their decision to only make Genesis outfits.

Even the DSON limits sales to Genesis buyers and Poser 9/Pro 2012 owners... it's still not opening up the whole customer base to vendors.