AmbientShade posted at 3:25PM Thu, 19 November 2015 - #4239435

randym77 posted at 11:01PM Wed, 18 November 2015 - #4239433

I wonder how important we are to SM. Their promo stuff does not feature any naked chicks with swords. Instead, it's contemporary people wearing ordinary clothes. Poser 7 had the Winter Princess (I think it was Poser 7), but mostly the Poser figures come with street clothes, not brass bikinis or chain mail.

There's a quote from Sydd at RDNA on their promo page, but also a quote from someone who works for Jimmy Kimmel, talking about how great it is to be able to prepare animations that will be broadcast that day.

And when I've seen Poser renders "in the wild," it's been in stuff like industrial training videos and forensic animations.

Maybe the NVIATWAS segment of their customers just aren't that important to them.

In all the years I've been using Poser, I've seen it being used and recognized it's models in dozens of tv commercials, forensics recreations, department store displays, check outs, etc. It's used in the TV show Bones and Comedy Central's Colbert Report's intro clip was even created with Poser. And if I recall correctly even a portion of the CSI intro was done in Poser. Yet in all of those instances, it's always been Poser's native content I see being used. Never once did I see a daz model in any of those clips. I'm sure they are out there and I know they're being used in comics and such, but it's a lot harder to find than it is to find Poser content "in the wilds" as you say. It seems to me that it would be more beneficial to daz for their models to work in Poser, than it is to SM to have daz models in Poser. Contrary to popular opinion around here, Poser's existence and success is not dependent on whether or not it supports a 3rd party's content, which has been proven 3 times over now (P9 - P11). It's up to that 3rd party to make their content compatible with Poser. If they decide they don't want to that's their problem, not Poser's. I make and sell content for both platforms, and see no reason to merge the two.

As for Pauline, she seems to be sharing the top rows of what's hot on the front page of the store here for the last two days just fine, with a couple of her items contending with a hair model for the #1 spot. I've seen the two jump back and forth a few times just in the last 24 hours. Everything that's been released for her so far is on the what's hot page. How long it will stay there depends on how many people decide to continue developing content for her.

Hmm, can I please direct you to have a look here.

http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/www.renderosity.com

http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/www.runtimedna.com

http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/www.smithmicro.com

http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/www.contentparadise.com

Compared with:

http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/www.daz3d.com

It seems you're relying on intuition and past experience to draw your conclusions. I know statistics are not absolute but this is just one indicator among many of a trend in the market.

I have also in the past made content for both platforms, these days I find one platform far exceeds the other in sales return. So now I develope for one exclusively and the return is higher than ever before when I used to divide my time creating for both.

No points for guessing which is what I'm afraid.