Yeah, but PP-2014 is $499 while Studio is FREE.

And it has the more sophisticated rigging tools.

So if you only can afford Poser 9 or 10, you can use Studio as a "Rigging mule" to weightmap any figure, then use the DSON importer to bring that figure into Poser.

I mean, if Poser users use Photoshop to edit textures and ZBrush to create new morphs, and MD to create clothing, why not use Studio to rig ?

Besides, unlike Photoshop and ZBrush and MD, Studio is FREE, so all you risk is spending a few hours getting acqainted with its rigging tools.

I think Genesis-2 gives ample proof how well a properly Tri-AX rigged figure can actually bend in Poser.

(Actually, apart from the meshes I rigged myself in PP-2014, I know of no "Poser native" figure that bends as well in Poser as Genesis-2 does.)

And once you've loaded that Tri-Ax rigged figure in Poser via DSON, you can convert it back to a native Poser cr2 with a few simple mouseclicks.

(And unless you dissect the cr2 in a word editor, noone will be able to tell the difference anyway.)

 

It's a shame the DSON importer didn't work well enough two years ago to make such a workflow possible. In hindsight, it would have been better to have 2 years of Tri-AX rigging experience now than two years of Poser weightmapping experience.