At some point, Daz asked the question, "What would happen if Poser were pulled from the market?" The horrifying implications -- their entire business would fall apart -- led to the development of Daz Studio. And it took years to become the software that it is today.

If you imagine the question, "What would happen if Daz decided to pull V4 from the market?"

Then Dawn is the answer for Poser users.

To be sure, many of us believe that SM should prepare for that possibility. But historically, Poser has relied on third party content creators, and Hivewire continues in that tradition.

I think most Poser users (who are dissatisfied with the Poser figures) have a vested interest in supporting what Hivewire is doing. And if not that, at least we have a vested interest in not undermining them.

I don't think that either possibility (Poser being pulled or V4 being pulled) is likely to occur. But I don't believe there's anything wrong with preparing for the possibility. And if it did happen that V4 vanished, Hivewire would be in a very good position to dominate the content market for Poser users.

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PoserPro 2014, PS CS5.5 Ext, Nikon D300. Win 8, i7-4770 @ 3.4 GHz, AMD Radeon 8570, 12 GB RAM.