ssgbryan posted at 9:06AM Wed, 02 March 2016 - #4258706

2b. You will never get the vendors on board for a new figure - for the most part they are hell-bent on staying in the Poser 4 era and have no intention of leaving it. In 2016, vendors are still making material .pz2 files.

Lack of vendor support for ANY figure not named V4 is the REASON SM added the fitting room to Poser Pro.

I don't think its because vendors doesn't want to support different figures. And think V4 and M4 got so popular, because they really advanced the figure market and you didn't have as many figures back then as you have now. So it was a logic move for people, not only vendors to throw themselves over these. Daz3d if i remember right, then started with the Genesis figures series and gave a base package away for free, which meant that any vendor could get the base mesh and make content for them without actually having to invest in it, as more and more Genesis figures came out again the base mesh could be downloaded and vendors could easily make content for them.

Since the quality of the genesis figures is rather good they also got popular, but for people making figures, I think this have made it a bit harder for them to release new figures. Because their figures requires vendors to buy them and there are lots of figures, not only humans ones. So a vendor would have to make a lot of investment for making content to all these. So I think anyone making a figure would benefit from copying that idea from Daz3d and release the base mesh for free with the most common morphs and then special morphs and textures are bought separately. Because that would allow vendors to easily make content for them.