For the record, there is no anger here involved nor was there anything personal. (But I don't want to publicly discuss who sent what emails when to whom.)

I just tell things like I see them, and I don't see Poser currently being as attractive as Studio without either a high end mesh of its own or full native Genesis compatibility.

(Although personally I can't understand the reluctance of installing and using the DSON-importer many users have. It's easier than using some Python scripts. I even think "poserizing" Genesis like I did is less work than "poserizing" a lot of other "non-Poser" stuff. Ever tried making a SketchUp object look good in Poser ?)

 

Yes, Poser has a lot of neat features, some free, some quite expensive, but I stay with my assertion that quite a few of them are not really important to the average user, thus adding nothing to Poser's general desireability.

Yes, there are nerds out there who want to do their own thing, (Like me.), but the vast majority wants to load-pose-render pretty wimmenfolk.

(Actually I only started the endless sculpting, tweaking, rigging rigmarole because 14 years ago there wasn't a figure like Genesis around)

If people are happy with the figures they use, so be it.

I just think the "Poserverse" as a whole is too small to be split up into a gazillion fractions. I just think we all could be much more productive if we all could gather around a single figure. I just think this part of the CGI universe is too fragile to survive without that kind of stability. Merchants need high volume sales and they can't get them if everyone uses a different figure.

 

I posted this before, but I think I should post this again:

If both a high end native Poser mesh as well as full TriAx compatibility are "out of the question", why not ship Poser with the DSON-importer pre-installed ?

And persuade DAZ to ship "Poser friendly" .zip files that install without the dreaded "content" folder. Or let them make a python installer that auto-deletes the content folder, installing Genesis files directly into a Poser runtime.

I think this would significantly lower the threshold for many users to "Go Genesis".