shante posted at 8:05PM Fri, 23 October 2015 - #4234969

Khory_D posted at 6:45PM Fri, 23 October 2015 - #4234961

"So, my question is, as a "Don't know sheitz about modeling myself" kinda person, what would it take for a vendor of similar products that need absolutely NO connection with the complex issues of blend zones and mesh configurations and all that necessary knowledge in making product for HUMANOID/ANIMAL figures, to also in the process of creating a set of said kind to ALSO offer a version that works natively in Poser?"

The last poser product I did sold less than 20% of the volume of an identical studio product during intro and then sales ground to a halt on it. I also know that when various people stopped poser support they saw no change in sales numbers on products but a fair bit of time gained not doing the alternate settings for poser. For the average content creator a 20% return on the same amount of work on setting up surfaces etc just is not viable. So what it would take is at an absolute minimum a sales increase that was at least 50% of the sales for a Studio only product. Ideally of course the sales volume numbers should match those should match for a comparable product or double for a combined studio/poser product.

Daz was able to hold out much longer than the brokered content creators as far as support goes, and Jack is still fighting the good fight in order to be faithful to the plat members. But for most of us the sales numbers vs time to support has been clear for a while. Keep in mind that it isn't just that you may not get back the time spent to support poser you are also taking time that could be spent more profitably. It isn't as if the average content provider is rolling in cash and when your walking a fine line you do have to make sure that things are going to be profitable enough to pay the bills and put food on the table.

Oh I understand but for guys like me who love certain products and despite willing to pay for them are unable to because we see them for an app we do not have or will never (I think and hope) get, it is frustrating. I am old enough and experienced enough to understand the need for profit and/or proper compensation but I thought Artists didn't need money! (sorry that was tongue in cheek and sarcastic because you have no idea how damn many times clients or prospective clients and employers threw that at me in the course of my trying to eek out an existence in photography illustration or Graphic Design so much i quit the whole damn circus after years of training and growing experience and skill sets, after years of trying to make it. Knowledge is king here and I just wanted to be told by someone in the know that is is more difficult that it seems to create like products for two platforms/apps. Thanks,

I'm a bit out dated on this but it's still the same concept. it still works the same more or less. when I made a out fit for A3 in Poser 5 days .I realized it was way ,way ,way easyer to use a main app. I used LW at the time.It was easyer to re rig A3 n attach the cloths in LW. Then it was to attach the cloths in Poser 5.

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