@wolf359

The images I have posted were just "ideas / examples" since something like that most likely would catch interest...

I can tell from the FanArt community, that many who can't draw their fantasy into existence, rely on 3D Stuff like Poser and DazStudio (or like me Carrara) to make their ideas visible.

That kind of community shouldn't be underestimated as potential customer for armor and clothes that look at least somewhat like the stuff they know from games and movies.

Assassins Creed, Skyrim/Oblivion/Morrowind, Dungeons & Dragons has a quite large Fan Community ... and not forgetting Manga/Anime stuff. Not all Manga/Anime is about slutwear ;-) just to name a few.

That Fantasy Rogue Robe from Xurge 3D was quite popular even if it was not really good when you did jumping and swooping combat poses... but that's because of the lack of movement morphs and because that robe had only two pieces instead of three or more. I guess when redone for M4 or Genesis Aery Soul style - it could become epic!

Now my question:
What do you mean by limited uses to most people?

I have seen so many people posting their Daz / Poser stuff at Deviant Art and there are plenty of battle, parading and whatnot epic fantasy stuff among there that's not about half-naked sexy posing smoochies.

I think those could be quite well some customers for male armor, too, that looks more than just smooth and "normal". sings The internet may have ben born because of pOrn (old WoW Insider) ;-) but not everyone wants to do "only" images of that kind.

Bending/Posing:

Besides - if armor was done more like Alpha Seed / Aery Soul does it ( single pieces instead of just two or three body-part pieces) - the useability would be much better and bending wouldn't be such a problem either - and you can mix and match that stuff nicely with other armor pieces.

AS has been so far the only one doing armor this way... (sadly only for V4) **and it has been very very successful and people buy it even if it costs a good deal of money... **

But as I said before, even with Genesis which is more or less a unisex thing in many cases, there hasn't been done anything really "epic"yet... all just the same smooth leather armor, smooth plate mail, skimpwear and so on...

Which strengthens my feeling that many armor and clothing vendors don't play Games and aren't aware of the source of inspiration and the potential of the Poser using FanBase who loves nothing more than creating FanArt with appropiate and "as similar looking stuff as possible) ;-) just check DevArt in the 3D Section for various games and their characters.