Quote - I can't give any educated opinion on the whole "Dawn" thing because I've not even bothered to download her.  That said, I think it would be a shame if she didn't do well, because I do like the idea behind her.

If I were to go into the business of developing a figure for use with both programs, I'm pretty sure I'd have gone the 'two versions' route as well.  Whoever created her deserves to do well because the logic behind her makes sense, makes it easy for the users, and doesn't discriminate either userbase.

To me that's 'good business', and good business deserves to do well.

 

I'd like Dawn to succeed as well but I am not so convinced that having a figure that can work with both programs was such a good idea.  My main problem is I do not see the what group of people they are marketing to.  Many Poser users do not use Daz studio for different reasons so they are not bothered if their 'Poser' figure works in Daz.  A lot of Daz users already have a new better bending figure in Genesis so they are not that interested either.  Those that use both Studio and Poser have access to Genesis with no extra hoops to jump through.  That is not to say users will not use Dawn in either program, they will, I just don't see a vast number of people who benefit from a figure that works in both.

If it was an attempt to try and heal the split that some people felt a while ago, it was doomed from the start.   As for me I was really interested in Dawn until I saw the lack of morphs from day one or even month one.  From a personal point of view, as a Poser user, Dawn has so much in common with Genesis in that she does not give me anything I cannot do with V4WM.  I don't really care how old she is, or listen much to the prophets of doom, she has a place in my runtime until something better, not just new, comes along. 

 

 

 

I use Poser 13 on Windows 11 - For Scene set up I use a Geekcom A5 -  Ryzen 9 5900HX, with 64 gig ram and 3 TB  storage, mini PC with final rendering done on normal sized desktop using an AMD Ryzen Threadipper 1950X CPU, Corsair Hydro H100i CPU cooler, 3XS EVGA GTX 1080i SC with 11g Ram, 4 X 16gig Corsair DDR4 Ram and a Corsair RM 100 PSU .   The desktop is in a remote location with rendering done via Queue Manager which gives me a clearer desktop and quieter computer room.