Dave-So opened this issue on Sep 20, 2015 ยท 238 posts
AmbientShade posted Thu, 22 October 2015 at 5:26 AM
Genesis is not going to happen in Poser. It's been stated repeatedly. Smith Micro is not interested in licensing DAZ file formats and DAZ isn't interested in giving their formats away. Constantly creating arguments about it in the forums is not going to change that fact. It's been years and nothing has changed. If SM thought Genesis would boost sales of their software to any significant degree, then they've had plenty of time to determine that. Obviously the benefit does not outweigh the detriment in doing so or they would have by now. They can't legally make it work in Poser without DAZ's permission, and DAZ wants money for that permission. Poser is not dependent on content creators for its success. If it were, then there wouldn't be another version of Poser being developed right now. Content creators are dependent on Poser. If you want to make a living creating content for Poser then create content that works in Poser. No one is stopping you. It's your responsibility to create content that people want to buy. Poser provides the tools to do so but it's not going to make you a good artist, only you can do that. There are a number of successful content artists making their livings from Poser content completely independent of whatever DAZ is doing. There are also a number of Poser users who create their own content and aren't dependent on what some other content provider is or isn't doing. If your success as a content artist depends on a 3rd party's content then maybe you need to reassess your skills as a content artist. There are dozens of figures that work just fine in Poser. Pick one and make content for it or improve it into something that people want to use. You think that can't be done or that it's a waste of time? Look at Anastasia. Before she came along no one wanted to use Alyson. One artist turned her into something a whole bunch of people wanted to use, and it didn't require a single bit of anything from DAZ. Neither did the characters built off of her. And 4 years later she's still selling. How many versions of Genesis have come along since then? I doubt her creator thinks Anastasia was a waste of time. The same can be done with any figure in Poser's library and the only thing that's stopping anyone from doing so is themselves.