Quote - I really dont care about the Poser vs DAZ thing. I warned people about that years ago, and no one listened. "DAZ wont abandon its base!" Uh huh, sure...

It's nice to see someone trying to go cross-platform. Honest, it is. However this genre has been pretty-girl'ed to death, folks. How many of these interchangable ladies do you really need? Sweet Jesus, enough already! By the time folks get through with this, she wont be any different from any of the countless others that preceded her. 

I'm sure she'll be amazing. But she'll also be visually predictable. And no amount of fancy, under-the-hood technology is going to change that. The renders of her will wind up looking like renders of the Vickies and Antonias and Stephanies and Barbies who preceded her.

It's just a shame that something radically new has to be wrapped up in the same tired persona.

Hi, Sean.  Good to know that you're still lurking about.  I remember the "there's no split" days very well.

 

Honestly, my favorite figures are made by Nursoda.

 

I never got that heavily into V4 because of the INJ system and the sheer headache of exporting it to modo and Lightwave.  I think I did a handful of V4 renders before I dropped it.  And I never installed DS past 2.4, if I remember correctly.  2.3 maybe.  2.2?  Somewhere in there, I threw in the towel.  (Not that I haven't seen enough hollers for help and screenshots of the more recent versions.)  After working in modo, Genesis is a yawn, nothing I haven't encountered elsewhere, just packaged differently for dial spinners.  Gen3 was the last "normal" figure set that caught my fancy.

 

But I have an interest in Dawn.  I think this may finally be a next step that I might actually use.  It seems to have the right specs and shouldn't be too difficult to export. At least, pre-release info has led me to hope so.  Then again, I'll rig it in modo (with the Poser dev figure as reference) and probably make most of the clothes I'll use there with my own morphs.  Not your typical buy out the store user frenzy.... I might even contribute if life permits.