Winterclaw opened this issue on Jul 21, 2015 · 146 posts
wolf359 posted Wed, 22 July 2015 at 10:05 AM
"It's my understanding that the only real issue currently preventing G3 from functioning in Poser is the dual quaternion rigging. "
Hi IMHO this is a grossly over simplified assessment of the genesis to poser compatibility issue.
when I installed the latest DS on my new win7 PC several months ago I basicly ignored those default genesis figures and simply added my old poser six runtime I had copied over from my Mac book.
But after a few months of slowly incorporating genesis into my Character animation work flow and rendering them in Cinema4D via MDD/obj I realized what the "big deal" is actually all about and have basicaly declared the previous millenium figures( including V4) obsolete and they likely will not be used again by myself after this current animated film project.
If its just a matter of getting the latest "Vicky" version, posable&dressable into poser that is already possible now via many of the various methods including DSON and joepublic's techniques even for "V7" it seems
What has me frankly impressed is the way functionality& morphs are just available to the genesis figures automaticly in the background after installing them into DS itself.
Gone are the bad old days of uber bloated 300 megV4/M4 Cr2's as all of the Figure morphing Data is driven by the program itself not the figure. persay
The switchable UV sets that allow for using your favorite M4 V4 textures made the transition much less "disruptive" to say nothing of the auto fit feature that allows usage of most legacy clothing and hair.
I could go on but my only point is this:
Any poser based solution that does not function with genesis EXACTLY the way that Daz studio functions with the figure, will be nothing more than a dodgey,tenuous "hack".
And even then will forever be easily subject to being broken by the next SR poser update or point version DS update.
Resulting in endless frustration for those who keep foolishly placing their hopes in such a half measures.