wolf359 posted at 9:56AM Thu, 03 March 2016 - #4258945

ssgbryan posted at 5:31PM Wed, 02 March 2016 - #4258706

patorak3d posted at 10:20PM Tue, 01 March 2016 - #4258613

"So now, I have two questions for the Poser fanbase.

1.Do enough Poser users exist to support the need for another site/marketplace to take over for RDNA on the Poser side, since RDNA is seemingly phasing out their support of Poser with this merger?" We do have Renderosity.

2.Is this community ready for an entirely different approach to managing figure creation that could solve Poser’s need for a truly modern figure pair?" I believe so. It will take an extensive survey of the Poser community, though.

1. Forum wise, RDNA will be missed, but from what I understand SM is moving their forums elsewhere - otherwise, who cares? Other sides are up (hivewire, cgbytes, Yuri-digital, etc.)

2a. The days of One figure to rule them all is over. The market has fragmented and it isn't coming back. I would say that you are confusing DAZ's business model with SM's business model. You have missed the power that is in current versions of Poser. Poser gives you the toolset to use the figure of your choice. Wanna keep using a legacy figure - adding Poser 9+ features only take a few minutes. Or use the wide variety of modern Poser figures - the choice is OURS. The same can be said for clothing - I have dozens of outfits made for either M4 or V4 that have never gone on a DAZ figure. I LIKE not needing to build a new wardrobe everytime a new figure comes out.

2b. You will never get the vendors on board for a new figure - for the most part Lack of vendor support for ANY figure not named V4 is the REASON SM added the fitting room to Poser Pro."

But alas the fitting room did very little to increase the popularity of pauline, Paul ,Dawn Dusk, Scarlett or "EF Steve. They all languish in relative obscurity and will likely continue to fade now that a not so crippled G3 female can be rendered in poser 11.

Depends on your view point. I don't think Dawn has continued to fade and interest appears to have increased since the release of version 2 and SE. What is more users did not have to re-buy her wardrobe for version 2. She never will compete with Genesis in terms of sales, or V4 for that matter, but that does not mean there are no sales. I have used the fitting room extensively for clothes for Dawn and the same for Dusk.

Genesis may well be good but each version also attracts a percentage that buy because it is the latest and greatest and they will quickly move to Genesis 4 when that is launched. The days of one figure dominating has gone, there are going to be more and more figures with reduced support compared with V4.

For some this reduced support means they live in obscurity, for others they see a figure they can use in their art and quietly continue to do so.

 

 

I use Poser 13 on Windows 11 - For Scene set up I use a Geekcom A5 -  Ryzen 9 5900HX, with 64 gig ram and 3 TB  storage, mini PC with final rendering done on normal sized desktop using an AMD Ryzen Threadipper 1950X CPU, Corsair Hydro H100i CPU cooler, 3XS EVGA GTX 1080i SC with 11g Ram, 4 X 16gig Corsair DDR4 Ram and a Corsair RM 100 PSU .   The desktop is in a remote location with rendering done via Queue Manager which gives me a clearer desktop and quieter computer room.