Hi DestinyGarden.

I didn't say "former" employee.

Here is the timeline.

• In 2009 I start development of Reality. At that time not only there was no program connecting Poser or DAZ Studio to LuxRender or any other PBR, there was not even any talk about PBR in the Poser/Studio world. I introduced the idea to this market.
• August 2010, Pret-a-3D, my company, which has a website, email and contact information, in other words a legitimate company, releases Reality 1.0 for DAZ Studio. Physically-Based Rendering is added to DAZ Studio for the first time and the community learns about this possibility.
• For more than two years Prêt-à-3D and DAZ work together. In that period a certain person was the liaison between the two companies.
• In Q1 2012 I close my store at DAZ and move to Renderosity
• In April 2013 I release Reality for Poser.
• In July 2013 the same person who was my contact in DAZ releases Luxus. A rip-off of my idea of connecting DAZ Studio to LuxRender. Not only the concept is plagiarized from my idea which he witnessed for the first time when I submitted Reality to the DAZ Store, but it is positioned and advertised against Reality, showing the clear reference point.

So, yes, I do have the right to call it a rip-off, imitation, knock off, and so on, because I had the original idea to bring PBR to Studio and specifically to use LuxRender. That is very specific. And this is particularly because ldgilman said that in his/her mind "Reality was built on top of Luxus". That is adding insult to injury.

If you have iRay today it is because I spent the past five years demonstrating that there is an interest in using PBR systems in this market. In 2009 it was a total gable, there was no market and no indication that this kind of technology would be adapted by the Poserverse. So, not only I promoted the idea but I took all the risk. Sphericlabs did nothing of that. He just look at somebody's else work and wrote a knock off. At least Studio's integrated PBR uses a different renderer. To use the same rendered was simply an act of plagiarism. Some people lead, other copy the ideas of innovators.

BTW, saving the data together with the scene it's something that Reality did since version 1.0.

All the best.

Paolo

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