Quote - > Quote - > Quote - Most of us would probably USE Genesis if it wasn't for Smith-Micro trying to "do their own thing" and not conform to the popularity that is DAZ3D models.

 

NO, no, no.

Smith-Micro realized that it would be foolish decision to tie their product to whatever parts of DAZ Studio that Genesis requires. Doing such a thing would leave them always two steps behind DAZ in introducing new features, and possibly limit their ability to innovate in different areas.

Not correct. The DSON file format (Genesis, Genesis 2 Male, Genesis 2 Female, Dragon 3, etc.) does not require any parts of DAZ Studio to work. It is a plain text file format, which has changed exactly once, when the changes were made that were required to make it work in Poser using the DSON Importer, which was the same time the user facing files (DUF) seperate from the back end files, were introduced.

Actually, he's right. In fact, that statement is a pretty good paraphrasing of the statement Steve Cooper released from Poser explaining why they hadn't  gone that route. The DSON importer (as I understand it, because I don't use it or Genesis) is a collaboration between DAZ and SM to allow Poser to get Genesis into Poser and allow it to take advantage of what features it can that Poser does support. So Genesis does work in Poser and still people complain.