crocodilian posted at 8:25PM Sat, 27 February 2016 - #4257939

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.

Beyond you attempting to change the argument once proven wrong (let's not do that), the fact is still DAZ Studio still has it. And there are products that do use it. However in this space, if people want more capability, they would move up into the more expensive applications like Lightwave, Maya, etc and they would be making their own content. Also it serves no purpose to turn yet another thread into an app war, so let's stick to what the OP wanted.. and that's where it's feasible to open another store.