@WandW: Thanks !

@adzan: Call it informercials or PSA's.  :-)

The moment a user asks about Genesis, there's usualy several posts of Poser purists discouraging him/her: "Too hard to use, not made for Poser, why bother ?, doesn't really work anyway, why not use Roxy ? Or Dawn. Wonderful figures !"

And none of that advise is based on any facts, but simply an ongoing anger directed towards DAZ.

I said it many times: I'm not "PRO" DAZ. I'm pro good Poser figure technology. Someone create a figure with better topology and better rigging than Genesis-2, and I'll happily delete it from my runtime and never use it again.

And then I'll start pestering everyone about "Figure-X" instead: "Everybody use Figure-X now, so much better than lame Genesis-2. Still using Genesis-2 ? Gee, what are you thinking ? That's old tech !"

:-)

Poser is a hobbyist tool. Not everyone can be a "figure expert". Not everyone "should" be a figure expert.

But those who aren't, shouldn't they be able to trust the more experienced users to tell them the truth when they ask for help ? Doesn't every user deserve to get all the information that is available ? Beyond any personal agenda ?

So far noone was able to disproof any claim I made. Noone could show Roxy or Dawn easily morphing into a gazillion realistic shapes. Or be as limber as Genesis out of the box. Or as anatomical correct.

Noone.

Just a vague: "Who needs this or that feature anyway, Roxy and Dawn are fine !".

I'm sorry, but I never was a member of the "I don't care" club.

Whatever I do, I want to get to the bottom of it and do it right. And sooner or later, you discover that everything is based on rules. Some can be ignored, some should be ignored, but some should better be adhered to.

If you are a professional and you build a realistic model of a human being that thousends of people are going to use, there is no excuse for bad topology.

Doesn't matter if they are mere hobbyist users, doesn't matter what they use those figures for, a children story or hardcore porn.

They deserve the best figures current technology can create.

Those who find that kind of honesty and incorruptibility annoying or not constructive are free to put me on "ignore". That's what that shiny new button under every post is there for, after all.

;-)