Quote - I think what many people miss is the fact that most Poser/Studio people want ease of use.

Not everyone has the abitlilty/time/etc to tweak everything in a scene or convert it to another character.

Do I use V5 M5 up? Nope, but I would not tell a vendor to support "X character either". Vendors are going to support what makes them money, and that is the bottom line.

I think that you are spot on here. I have noticed that people in the forums talk about all of the complicated and troublesome sounding things that they have to do to make this figure or that item work in their program to get a render. I, like the original OP do not use those figures because I do not want to fuss and struggle with every scene I set up. 3D content is very expensive, so as an end user I really want the items I purchase to work the way they were created to. This is not to say that I never re-texture or refit anything, but I don't want to be locked into that pattern by virtue of the figure I choose and I think the Genesis1 and 2 system in Poser works that way simply because of the nature of the process involved and the fact that those figures were not created for Poser. I know that a lot of people in the forums are more advanced users and therefore are more likely to be comfortable with jumping through several hoops to make things work, but I do not believe that reflects the average user. It seems that the OP wants to know that he/she is not alone. I think that there are many of us of the same mind.

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