Quote - Hrm.

 

Hornet, let me do an analogy.

In the 1980's, the big reason Microsoft got up and ran away with the majority of the PC user marketshare has to do with one mantra: "Software Sells Systems."  

Consider the PC OS (Mac or Windows) as Poser or DS. Consider PC software as the meshes - Vicky, etc etc.  In this analogy, Vicky is the "killer app." People generally don't give two craps about the OS (let alone the hardware), but they will learn to type on a keyboard made out of barbed wire in order to use that killer app. 

Same-same here... The application (DS or Poser) doesn't mean jack to the typical hobbyist. If the app doesn't do it, the plugins, add-ons and complimentary software will suffice just fine (see also the existence of, oh, Vue d' Esprit).

No - what users want is their Fantasy/Steampunk/Faeries/Dragons/pr0n/SciFi/Whatever, and they want it right the hell now. The app is only a means to that end - nothing more.

DAZ (I think they still?) understand that. SmithMicro (still?) does not. 

 

I think that instead of "software sells systems", the mantra up in Poserland should be "mesh sells apps."

 

Accept one of the main reasons given by Poser users not to use Genesis is they hate Studio or cannot get it to work on their system, I fall into the latter group, so they do care about the OS.  I work in a computer shop and believe me people do care about the hardware. 

 

Daz is a content provider, SM is a software developer of which Poser is only one small part of their business.  I trust SM know their business and despite all those who predicted the imminent demise of Poser when the big 'G' hit has developed two stunning upgrades. Poser 9/2012 and Poser 2014 with some great new features.  I would much rather they concentrated on features and let others do the figures.  You may not like the idea but it is they way they have chosen to go.  The fact that some highly skilled people in the industry are now developing a new figure for the use in Studio and....wait for it...Poser suggest that SM might not be far wrong.

Then again I suspect you know that......."You can wake up someone who is asleep but not someone who is pretending to be asleep".

 

 

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.