RorrKonn posted at 3:37PM Fri, 23 October 2015 - #4234664

adh3d posted at 1:50AM Thu, 22 October 2015 - #4234636

You have to understand taht , since DAZ3d create Daz Studio, DAZ3d is not only a content creator, is a software competitor for SM, so, how can SM let their competitor include a part of software in Poser, it had been a suicide.

I have to add that if DAZ3d had wanted to make a figure compatible with Poser, the could do that just making two versions, genesis for DS and, we can say , V5 for Poser, using Poser weight mapping, but Daz take a way, and it is their own way, create content for their own software.

I get what your saying but DAZ was the driving force behind Poser since V1 days. Poser has been bolt n sold multiple times. Just about ever version of Poser has a deferent company backing it. And those companies always abandoned us. Vendors came n went. The only constant in the last decade + is DAZ. DAZ made Poser ,not what ever company just happened to own it that week. With out DAZ there would be no Poser like we know today.

I was around during what we called the main App's 3D Wars. There's a old abandoned Truspace 7 ,now free. That will never be upgraded again and sooner or latter will not work on modern OS's. Truespaces name will fade away but Truespace is one of the founding fathers of 3D. Back in the Poser 3 days Softimage was the King of 3D. Now Softimage R.I.P. Lightwave is nothing what it once was. Adobe is nothing what it once was.

Truspace ,Softimage ,Lightwave .Where all greater App's then Poser.

Actually it was Zygote from what little memory serves me and that isn't much nowadays, that made Poser. And if i can still draw from that faulty memory) and I am sure if wrong here I will certainly get "wet Noodled" as the saying was then, Didn't Zygote actually create the original Poser on-board figures? When They saw where the poser community was taking the app they saw potential dollars there and DAZ was born. Not long after Poser 4 released and DAZ took hold Mil1 figures were birthed and welcomed in the community as being so much more beautiful and realistic compared to the ugly Posette and Dork figures prior. Well, at least I thought so so much in fact i till use them from time to time in my renders. You won't see me using Posette or Dork anytime soon...or EVER again!!!

As far as those apps you mention they may have been greater than Poser but you fail to recognize the niche poser catered to: guys and gals like me, amateur users who used it as a replacement to drawing or photography to create images (even as an artist myself I will no longer call my renders "ART" anymore!). As an image maker like me, there are many many other poser users who are NOT Power users, we can't wrap our brains around script, and code adjusting in wordpad, Pythoning this and that, learning magnets and morph tools, hair room functions, cloth room functions, animation or advanced Material room uses. Never mind the higher end functions I have enviously read about in this thread that would allow me to migrate clothes and textures from one DAZ figure to another third party one. I have purchase dso damn many characters that looked good and regretted it when i realized there was and would NEVER be community support for them. And for non Power users like me that is a death nill regarding continued use of a product limited in use to fulfill my needs as a Poser users. If not ready with everything i need pretty much out of the box I will not buy it until I see who else is impressed by it enough to add more support for it for ALL of us to buy into.