Razor42 posted at 4:32AM Wed, 27 January 2016 - #4251259

Wait a minute didn't you stop using DS months ago?

Almost, nowadays I use it (in the order of 1/2 times per week) to export from DAZ proprietary formats into open ones. To do what I will describe below I will have to actually somewhat get back to it.

Razor42 posted at 4:32AM Wed, 27 January 2016 - #4251259

Well I hate to see you go Chae, but I guess if you're not going to be using Daz Studio anymore I guess that means you wouldn't be dropping into the Daz Studio forums much either.

Probably you missed the part in which I wrote about sharing information with other users.

I, differently from most people, act as soon as I see the writing on the wall and do not, like most persons, wait for the bus to hit me. We can discuss on the timetable for Studio to become a "walled garden" for DAZ content but not on the direction so now finding alternatives to Studio has become a non delayable issue. Since I got so much from the Blender community, I will explore in detail how to move from Studio (and Poser, because Poser is not a viable alternative to Studio, only a time-limited patch to the problem) to Blender and report in detail (read tutorials) on the tools and workflows. It is not different from what I have done with Vue Infinite: one day I decided to stop being ripped off by the maintenance contract and switched to Blender for natural scenes. The first two years were very painful but now everything has settled down, I can create natural renders better than my best Vue works and, relying on FOSS tools, I am forever free from the clutches of greedy fatcats who charge 100's of dollar for every dwindling updates.

P.S.: for bystanders reading this thread: whenever you see somebody singing the praises of DAZ DRM, check their nicknames over DAZ: you will find that most of them are DAZ PAs. Weight their statements accordingly.