I wouldnt worry about upsetting people RE DS compatability.  Thats a design choice that is kind of yours to make.  As a poser user the primary benefit DS compatability lends is the widened content/vendor pool.  There are some greatly talented people who mostly just design for DS, so thats nice about it.  On the other hand, how many compromises would have to be made?  Quite possibly not worth it.. particularly if it would be a burdensome part of the project.  Crappy parts of the workflow always suck, but ten times more when you personally begrudge having to do them.  I wouldnt give it a second thought.

On the content creator side of things.. well I'm torn.  The part of me that just loves to see how good a figure can get would love to see you pull out every stop and use every trick in the book to make it as good as possible.  From a commercial standpoint you would have to take vendor 'buy in' into account.  So a balance may have to be found.  As for making content...  I'd personally be OK with a figure that was a little challenging or complex to rig for IF I am capable of growing my skills to be up to the task AND after having done that the resulting clothing looks noticably better than I would have been able to do on a simpler rigged character.   If I was to walk away from every attempt feeling frustrated and stupid I'd likely move on to a figure that didn't hate me so much!

Quote - > Quote - If you really get into detail fo that you may need to make use of Poser's new cascading JCM's or ERC'd 'jiggle bones'... which would benefit a naked rig, but will make most clothing makers want to snuff you in your sleep. You'll have to decide how specialized you want to get. I don't remember if you are trying to make this work in Poser only or Poser or DS. For example, DS doesn't have non linear and cascading JCM's yet.

 

I don't know how to respond to this, but I feel like I need to. I actually sat and stared at this last night for about 2 hours before giving up and going to bed to sleep on it. 

Today, after contemplating it again for another couple hours, I still don't know how to respond without it being seen as inflamatory and I don't want that. I think I've pissed off enough people with my views lately and that's never been my intention. I hope I haven't alienated too many folks, but if I have I can't do anything about it now.

All I can say is that I never intended Lucas to be DS compliant. I see zero point in it at this stage and I can't foresee any reason to change that perspective unless there's a real demand for it, and that won't be aparent until people are actually using him, if that ever even happens. 

 

~Shane