Male_M3dia posted at 6:14AM Mon, 07 November 2016 - #4289170

ssgbryan posted at 4:56AM Mon, 07 November 2016 - #4289126

The high textures don't really matter unless you are looking at pores. Bigger doesn't actually mean better when you take into account the resolution of both your image and your monitor - it just means you need more memory for your scene (a 1Gb swim suit? Yes, it does exist).

If you are using Dawn or Dusk, why on earth would you shop here? Your time would be better spent at Hivewire3d. The same can be said for Pauline & Paul. Just about everything sold here for Paul and Pauline is also sold at Content Paradise and the SM forums are picking up. If you are using the genesis figure (any iteration) in Poser, you will have a better selection at DAZ, and the forums are more useful.

There is less and less new V4 (or anything else) content sold here - that isn't a reflection of Poser, it is a reflection of the vendors that sell here. There are a lot of vendors here that came in during the V4 era and are hell-bent that they aren't leaving October 2007. They are going to continue to make products for Poser 7 as opposed to a modern version of Poser - and they are going to whine about shrinking sales rather than leave 2007 and Poser 7 behind.

(snip) No need to purchase a new figure. Great for me, not so much for vendors.

(snip) After years of being told by vendors here that if I didn't like something, I should make it myself. Challenge accepted - I rarely buy texture sets for clothing anymore, because I know how easy they are to make. Great for me, not so much for vendors.

(snip) So, I am having to learn how to make them myself, which will mean that there is one less thing I need a vendor for. Great for me, not so much for vendors.

So what does this mean as a Poser user?

(snip) With just a little bit of work on your part, you too can have a genesis figure running in Poser that looks exactly like the V4 character made by the same vendor.

(snip) Pity that vendors aren't upping their game, but that is on them, not the end-user. The same can be said for characters, hair, etc.

Poser users are going in one direction, DS users in another and vendors in a third. Whether or not 'Rosity comes out of it's death spiral, I'll be getting the next version of Poser.

Wait, the majority your argument is that this is the vendors' fault? Do you understand how "free market" and "supply and demand" works, right? That's not how this works. That's not how any of this works.

Uh, actually, yeah it is. Vendors are supposed to "supply" what the customers "demand". Now, if you want to argue that not enough customers are demanding stuff for certain figures to make it worth the vendors while, okay I can agree with you there. But that is why I support the idea of "niche" markets. If only five or so vendors are making things for Pauline or Dawn, then they can make a pretty decent income supporting just that one figure. If they're really good at what they make, they can even charge more.