EldritchCellar posted at 5:49AM Thu, 10 March 2016 - #4260204

I say we all should just make our own figures. Suited to whatever kind of art we wish to make. And who says we need to create just one?

Some (many?) of us do make our own figures, but those people are not the ones that usually ask for a Poser figure to be supported. There is merit in supporting a figure, and that has far more impact on a program than one might first think.

Take Genesis for example. Genesis is a figure, and at the same time is a program as well. The two are dependent on each other to achieve one goal. Basically, point and click. I am not bringing up Genesis to start an app war, more as an example of how a figure can have a strong impact on the direction a program is developed. Studio is primarily based around the Genesis concept at this point, and no matter what you might think about it Genesis has been successful in that regard. It also drives a content market, which is one of the differences between SM and DAZ.

Poser on the other hand, is not tied to any figure. There are hundreds if not thousands of figures floating around that will happily load into Poser and off you go. The main difference is the content, and getting it to work on other figures. Here is a perfect example. This is Earth Breaker for V4, converted to a lot of different base figures.

I don't have any problems converting clothes from one figure to another and I do it all the time. I did these conversions because someone in the forums was talking about how hard it was to do with things like armor and retain the detail. Many users do not have the Pro version of Poser, which will make conversions like this harder. Yes, it can be done, but point and click is basically out of the question until you have everything set up to do the conversion. I have Pro, and know how to do these conversions. Not everyone else does.

There are users out there that need a well supported Poser figure, simply so point and click works in both the standard and the pro version of Poser. Yes the tinkers can, and do, use whatever figure they want too and there are plenty of examples of that.

But, let's not forget about the people that just want to point and click either.

Those users need a well supported figure that is going to have content developed for it. For a long time that figure was V4, and all of us know that support for her is starting to drop off. Yes there is tons of content for V4 out there, but V4 does not take advantage of many of the new capabilities that P11 offers, and that separation will only increase as future version of Poser are released.

Carry on....

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