The upside for Daz users is no matter what Poser throws out, DS can use it because it has maintained compatibility. SM's refusal to do likewise just reeks of foolish corporate elitism. The ball is in their court, but they just don't seem to care.

 

 

From what I have seen so far SM does care. It cares about its customer's and has decided not to cripple the software because another company decided that they were going to change things.  The change looks more questionable by the day and Daz lost a lot of Poser customers along the way.  Read the 'Dawn' thread and you will see they are beginning to lose some very skilled vendors.

 

SMs approach to the market has always been different to Daz they delevlop software and, on the whole leave the development of figures to the market.  Poser 2014 follows that approach by allowing new figures to have clothing from day one via the fitting room which was well described before the launch.  I support Poser and no longer buy from Daz I am not alone so to say SM is wrong it not correct, a different approach yes.

Now that the is talk of a new 'Dawn' we will see just which one supports their users tha best.  Daz of course will have the interest of their users at heart so I expect to see a detailed thread of the comparissons between V6 and Dawn particualrly as there will be a Daz version. 

In this case 'elitism' does not seem to have any relevance.

 

 

 

I use Poser 13 on Windows 11 - For Scene set up I use a Geekcom A5 -  Ryzen 9 5900HX, with 64 gig ram and 3 TB  storage, mini PC with final rendering done on normal sized desktop using an AMD Ryzen Threadipper 1950X CPU, Corsair Hydro H100i CPU cooler, 3XS EVGA GTX 1080i SC with 11g Ram, 4 X 16gig Corsair DDR4 Ram and a Corsair RM 100 PSU .   The desktop is in a remote location with rendering done via Queue Manager which gives me a clearer desktop and quieter computer room.