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You people are still focusing on content. I'm focusing on tools. Poser has the tools to create those killer galleries you want so much. That includes the figures. But those figures need for the artists we all claim to be to capture the beauty. Texture maps, hair, makeup, poses, morphs. To me, at least, those should flow from the community. That's what the vendors are supposed to be selling. Problem is they're all selling for the same girl. What if Revlon only made makeup for Christie Brinkley? Or worse, what if Revlon, Maybelline, Covergirl, etc. all made makeup specifically for Christie Brinkley? You can have twenty people all clamoring for a piece of one pie, or you can have twenty people  spread out among five pies. Who gets more pie?

Actually who would get customers to pick their makeup and take it to the counter to purchase? Which would the customer pick up: the M.A.C. makeup that has a huge display with a top model beautifully painted with the advantages of using it and how it's made or the generic makeup that's just placed on the counter with no description or information and people are wary of using it because it's not known for quality and gives them skin issues?

That's really what you have here.

When Roxie was released last year, remember the huge promotion with the webpage specifically devoted to her, with her features and close ups of her skin and body? What about the long list of body morphs and clothing and artistic renders to show how she looked? And the clothing and packages available for her?

Remember that?

Oh yeah, that was V6, not Roxie. And Roxie can't be mad at V6 because of it, she should take that up with her management.

This was the extent of her promotion: http://poser.smithmicro.com/freefigures.html

Not even so much as a name drop.

You can't even click on anything to get a good look at her. This was simply opportunity lost, and showed the lack of committment in marketing her to the public and showcasing her as the result of Poser's features.

And for those that did load her up, there were several showstopping issues, including the eyelashes that came off if you tried to morph her eyes... and Rex had an issue where if you bent him a certain way, a polygon would fly out of each of his buttcheeks. Then there were the issues with face room, lack of body morphs and availability of clothing. You can imagine customers running into these issues and removing her from a scene and looking at figures that work better.

She wasn't in the spotlight for long before both Dawn and Genesis2/V6 stole the spotlight from her, which she didn't really had in the first place because issues overshadowed her release.

The thing is, if you really want people to use the figure, the makers of that figure needs to show that they're actually serious and committed to that figure. You can't expect customers to get serious and invest, when the maker can't do it themselves. You can't just leave it up to random people or vendors to do. But that committment did not happen and as such, she was generally ignored. Committment comes from the effort to properly market the figure, get people on board to show lovely renders of her, and have vendors ready to create content so that people can use the figure in their renders at release. The main push needs to come from the maker because they have the larger reach, you won't get anything accomplished from a forum that not everyone visits. And you'll certainly be hard pressed to get any momentum going a year after the release, when other figures are on the scene that are getting the support that the figure could have had an opportunity to get.