Quote - Dawn is a wonderful figure.  :-)  I know some haven't bonded with her, but for us Poser users who wanted a figure other than V4, she is a gift from the 3D gods.

It's not that expensive to get started with her.  One must have character though is here -- Oriana.  If you get Oriana and the Texture Transformer by the developer of BlackSmith3D, you can use any V4 skin and the Ori morph and create many gorgeous figures.  I mention Oriana because she has a ton of lip inj options.

Dawn is a lot of fun.  I don't use any other figure anymore. 

Hair fits are easy...just move a bit along the z and y axes and maybe enlarge a tad.  If it's a Figure, you just treat it as prop hair by creating a Figure Parent in Poser 2014.  Clothing is harder to convert but as I said, there is free stuff at ShareCG and any V4 dynamic item can be made to "fit" Dawn.  :-)

I love Dawn.  Wouldn't trade her for anything.

 

 

The problem really is that a figure needs to stand on their own. That means, "can i do everything with the character without borrowing from other figures?" With Dawn you can't. Even with the large push with (especially Poser) content at her release, the customers basically spoken and decided Dawn isn't what they needed. 

Dawn may have a life if it decide to be Poser only; that way it can do more things rather than a basic set of features found in both. Perhaps SM can work on its figure creation platform as it's pretty sad in comparison of what you can do and how easiliy you can do it in DS. However, techically and visually, it's way behind anything DAZ has done so I don't think in the long run it has a chance of being a viable DAZ character, so I really wouldn't invest too much in it.  Also note all the major vendors have basically parted ways with Dawn, either going back to V4 or V6, so the quality of her content has been way down.