Quote - > Quote - While that's great and good info if we ever decide to revamp the older characters, I think we were talking doing a generation 2 of Rex and Roxie. I could be misunderstanding though, I do that a lot these days.  

If you don't have these 2 items, then you will be wasting your time.

1.  **Morph Packs **- It is great that people who are great with Z-Brush are able to go and make their own custom characters - however, that isn't your user base.  Most of us are dial-spinners.  Rex & Roxie are still lacking in this department, which is why they aren't going anywhere.  (Well technically, Roxie does have a morph pack, over on that "other" site, but most people aren't going to go and grab Roxie Plus.)

They need to have morph packs from the get go, like Alyson & Ryan.  Or with 3rd party morph sets available on launch date, like Simon & Sydney. Either way is acceptable, but you must have them on launch day.

Recommendations - Colm made the great Ultimate Head & Body morphs for a number of Poser characters.  Jasmina made a simply incredible set of morphs for G2 Sydney & Jessi, as did Dimension 3D.  3d-ghdesign made a great set of morphs & expressions for Michelle.  Afroditeohki made a great set of morphs for Antonia.  DieTrying over on ShareCG made a great set of morphs and expressions for Antonia, V4, Genesis, and Laura.

Get at least one of these folks on board, preferably all of them - If you have to give them a copy of Poser 2014, do it.

One other recommendation - tell the f*&^%&% vendors do give their morph & expression packs descriptive names, not "cute" ones.  I just discovered a really nice set of expressions for Michelle that I didn't know about because the name was "cute" as opposed to descriptive.

2.  Vendor buy-in.  Rex & Roxie stumbled out of the gate because you didn't have vendor content ready to go on day 1.  I would recommend coordinating with a dozen or so vendors so that they have a product or 3 ready to go on launch.

Character Recommendations: 

http://www.rendercandy.com/index.php

Get RecieCup on board so that our little community can look a little less racist.  The lack of ethnic characters for any Poser or DS mesh is downright creepy.

 

I'd have to agree for the most part. Having that stuff alongside the launch is a must.