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We hear a lot about how forum posts aren't representative of market interest, and we can easily see that some voices are a lot louder than others (volume of posts, strength of opinion, name recognition, etc.) I'd really like to see a brokerage/figure maker provide two website features to help mitigate this: public polls and a Q&A feature.

Public polls allow the creators to ask a question, people can respond (one vote per person), and everyone can see the result. Let's say (to use an earlier fictional example) that the creators wonder if Dawn's legs are too long. They can put up a poll, and everyone will be able to see the results, and then the HiveWire3D team can respond and say what they plan to do based on the poll results. Very transparent.

The Q&A feature is a more efficient way of addressing questions than a forum. When someone posts a new question, the software attempts to find a matching, similar question. If the poster agrees that they are asking the same question, the two questions are linked and one response is used for both. Otherwise, a new question is generated and queued up for the site team to answer. The next person coming to the site can see a list of questions that have already been asked and answered, or are waiting on answers. I think this would generate fewer rumors, be easier for customers to use, and would help customers feel that their questions have been addressed.

Even if the answer to a customer request is "no," I really do believe that if the question is answered honestly and some reasoning given, people will accept the response and know they've been heard. My experience in forum management and global project management has led me to believe that this would reduce a lot of arguing and ill-will.

Just about every content creator has experienced first hand that forum feedback is only a segment of their customer base, and has learned to take it with a grain of salt, and compare (and incorporate) that to their actual sales data and put it in it;s proper realistic perspective when making decisions, so I wouldn't be too worried about frequency and volubility of individual opinions. 

As for arguing... it goes with the terittory. 

Quote -I really see a problem with understanding here! 

 

From what I have read, since the beginning of this thread, is that Dawn will be in basically TWO NEW, INDEPENDANT figures, one rigged to work in Poser and using the poser rigging technology, AND one rigged to work in DS, using DS rigging technology. The mesh (figure shape) will be the shared with both figures.

 

If this is the case (and I'm pretty sure it is) then clothing made for the Poser Dawn will not be automatically usable on the DS Dawn, even though the mesh will fit the figure in both programs. Therefore vendors will have to do twice the rigging but not twice the modelling.

 

To me this means that there will be Poser only content creators (I fall into this catagory as I know virtually nothing about DS rigging), there will be DS only content creators, who do not know Posers rigging, and there will be content creators with the knowledge of both programs and will create versions usable in both program. I suspect even those that know both programs will offer a DS version and a seperate Poser version, but that's only speculation based on the fact that if that if they have to do the rigging twice it would be foolish not to, but who knows.

 

 

Rigging part alone, especially in the newer version of programs, that this figure is artgeting is not too bad. Weightmapping eliminates the need for a sizeable number of JCM's, and the initial weightmapping gets transfered from the main figure. Content creator has to edit and fine tune it to the clothing. this process is a bit quicker and more user friendly then old rigging system was.

For me huge part of the 'expense' of making a product would be hand made JCM's and morphs. Since morphs can be shared (figure has the same topology) I don't expect a huge  problem supporting both. (Hopefully I donlt have to change my tune on this much when I start production), but having rigget test pieces (not for Dawn) in both Poser and DS weightmapping, I am optimistic that this is a supportable situation.

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