Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL


Subject: Indulge a minor rant, please

infinity10 opened this issue on May 30, 2014 · 94 posts


AmbientShade posted Sat, 31 May 2014 at 3:58 AM

I was going to buy the M5/V5 combo bundle the other day cause it was less than $50 but by the time I actually decided to do so it was no longer $50, lol. My luck. I have no use for the pro bundles for each of them due to the fact that I would never use 90% of the included content and would only be buying them in order to have the complete anatomical figures.

Same case for M6/V6. Don't have them yet because the base figures aren't anatomically complete, and I have no use for most of the content included in the pro versions of each but would have to buy it just to get a complete figure. When I do character sets, I want to do a complete character and include clothing and skin textures, not just one or the other. I want to make sure the skin and whatever custom morphs I might create for the figure will match the whole figure, not just the parts that are politically correct. But I can't do that with the Gen5/6 figures because part of them are locked behind a price wall. This has prevented me from completing several character sets I've begun with the intention of them being cross-compatible with Gen4/5/6. So as a content artist it's very discouraging. That's really the only gripe I have with the latest DAZ figures. Otherwise I think they're beautiful figures and would like to support them. Eventually I'll wind up having to give in and buy the pro bundles anyway if I want to use/support these figures, even tho 90% of it won't even get installed. 

I have no problems using DSON and I can convert all of them to Poser natives with a few minutes of work and patience if that's what I need to do, thanks to threads done by folks like JoePublic who took the time to learn how to convert and share that knowledge with the rest of us. 

 

~Shane