Quote - > Quote - > Quote - > Quote - When Genesis first came out, I asked why didn't DAZ just "Poserize" a version for Poser users. You've demonstrated that it can be done, Joe. I could do it myself. But screw that. If DAZ won't go thru the trouble to just make a cr2 version of Genesis for Poser, why do I need to jump through any hoops to do it myself?

Support; there would need to be Python scripts written to add morphs.  Also, Genesis 1 wouldn't have been compatible; Conforming of clothing to figures with animated joint centres didn't work until Poser 9 SR2, IIRC.  Both DAZ and SM rushed Studio 4.0 and Poser 9 out due to business deadlines, not because the technology was ready.

However, I will say I was expecting a Poser version of Genesis 2 when DAZ released seperate male and female figures, but that has obviously not been the case thus far...

Granted, but Male M3dia says that the vendors didn't want to make two versions of everything. They wouldn't have had to.  A poserised version of Genesis would have allowed the vendors to keep making Poser compatible clothes, while Autofit could simply handle the conversion for Studio users. That's what happened pretty much anyway because Genesis didn't have much to wear, and everyone was using their old V4 stuff through Autofit anyway. DAZ could have minimized or even prevented a major split in the community, but no  they adopted a "their way or the highway" mentality about it all, which forced everyone to pick a side.

But Genesis isn't just about clothes, it is about the whole feature set. UVs, morphs, HD, for example. So still, having one figure that does a lot and one that does nothing doesn't sound exactly fair either. 

And as far as "their way or the highway", how is Dawn any different? With her, you do choose or you do it twice. DSON, plan it for Poser and you do it once and it works in both.

Dawn is working with the dynamic that DAZ has already set in place. That dynamic wasn't there when Genesis for appeared, and like I said, Studio was already converting clothng with auto-fit, a feature Poser didn't have.  So continuing to make the clothing Poser compatible at least until DSON came along would have ameliorated the splt somewhat.

HD didn't come along until G2 anyway, so that wasn't an issue, and a poserized version of V5 would have kept a lot of Poser users and merchants happier.