Male_M3dia posted at 5:49PM Sat, 27 February 2016 - #4257923

crocodilian posted at 6:08PM Sat, 27 February 2016 - #4257897

Still no instancing in Daz or Poser, so you're left with one shots and two shots. Look at the Poser galleries-- have you seen an army of Orcs?

DAZ Studio has had instancing for a few years now.

Quite limited, but you're right Daz (sort of) does. Can't do morphs, can't alter surfaces . . . makes them of limited utility, but they are there.

Compare to the richness of Vue's Ecosystems . . . very basic. Have yet to see anyone do much of anything with them . . . though with some work, you can get something.

In any event my point remains: there's room for a competitor to Daz for two reasons

1. Daz is an increasingly closed, proprietary universe . . . and artists don't like that (see Eon's experience with encrypted content)
2. Better technologies are available

Besides instancing . .. think of a hobbyist application with native support for Zbrush. Or Octane-like cloud rendering at a consumer price.

So there's an opportunity, but I don't think that either Smith or their ecosystem are capable of taking advantage of it.