Quote - > Quote - I guess it all depends on your quality requirements..  For me the 90 second conversion is a myth as far as being equivalent to something I would purchase.  I cant speak for what people feel their time is worth.. but for me 14.95 is way less than an hours work and it takes way more than an hour to get a conversion to a quality level equivalent to a purchased product.  Its too bad there is no way to legally distribute/sell 3rd party conversions... to me that would be a huge opportunity for someone and I would expect there is quite a market.   Auo-conversions will never get to a level that is comparable to natively designed product.  Every item will need individual attention and time, thats just the nature of the beast.  If the tech can overcome or circumvent that reality it really will be the next leap forward

Vendor quality requirements and time spent making a product are vendor issues, not enduser issues - the issue end users face is "Is the product available for the figure I want to use." 

The morph brush, Wardrobe Wizard, Xdresser, and Poser's fitting room didn't come about to help vendors - they came about to help endusers deal with the fact that most vendors have no interest in making content for any figure not named Victoria 4. 

As an example, I am storyboarding a graphic novel & I need everyone in the same uniform.  Without these programs, I'd be stuck with 1 set of figures.  I have been freed from that - I use the figures I want to use. I am no longer limited by vendor's taste, or lack thereof - and that is wonderful.  It will be hard on vendors as more and more people avail themselves of clothing conversion utilities, but quite frankly that is their problem, not mine.

 

I think you are missing what I'm saying... I'm not speaking about vendor time at all..  Maybe as a consumer I'm odd.. but as a consumer I am NOT satisfied with a '90 second' conversion just because I can cram a figure into an outfit that was made for v4.  To replace purchased content, converted content needs to approach(not necessarily reach) the level of quality of use that I expect from content that i purchase.  Yeah sometimes you can make something work for one scene, from certain angles if you dont pose the figure too much.. but mostly that 90 second conversion yeilds something that I wouldnt even bother downloading for free.  All I'm saying is that the time required to get an acceptable conversion is mostly going to be worth more to me than the 15 or even 25$ I spend to get a quality purchased item that fits the figure natively.  I'm not a particularly high paid person, I dont have the kind of job that lets you be a single income family or anything like that, but if you take a look at content cost and compare it to an hourly wage.... new content that works is better than old content that you have f with to get what you want out of... Unless you happen to enjoy f. ing around with conversions.. then thats just part of your fun... to me its work though