Seems to me there's a lot of Daz vendors on the Poser forum these days with business axes to grind.

Khory_D posted at 6:03PM Tue, 27 October 2015 - #4235064

Why could you not sell a new figure at Daz? Because they do their own? Well as I have said before Daz is pretty pragmatic and if someone brought them an amazing figure and there was a way to blend it into the work flow studio users expect I think they would snap it up.

Doubt it. They're giving Studio away for free on the hopes to make money on V7. There's nothing in it for them with new figures: look at the - putting it mildly - lukewarm reception anything HiveWire3D creates is getting. They would be indefensibly stupid to even consider another figure.

I'm a Poser user. I was a DS user, but gave up for reasons others have outlined eloquently above. Personally, I don't see V4 as a Daz product anymore since their latest Studio doesn't support it very well: it's all about V7, now (and making money... oh, I've put a LOT of money in Saz coffers, in the thousands) so I'm happy to use V4WM because despite the somewhat ordinary mesh, the work Diogenes did with it was exemplary.

I also use Dawn, albeit to a lesser degree.

I give stuff away these days (you'll need a .png for that, available at the bottom of this page ).

One of the best posts on this thread was by Dale B. I got into Poser (and Rendo) somewhere around 2006 - does that qualify me as a forum-fossil? Absolutely, the cottage industry started with a lot of imagination and WOW-look-at-this! stuff, doing things people thought impossible. I mean, just think: writing a script that allows you to build physically-accurate shaders! Imagine that! All within Poser.

The imagination is still there. But it's a bit obscured by business objectives of competitive-product individuals. Seems a shame, really.

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