qaz posted at 12:02AM Sun, 13 November 2016 - #4289780

At present many more people use Daz Studio than Poser. It's free. What would you expect. If you look at the Reality PBR web site, you will see that there are 5 times as many posts from Studio users than Poser users, and that despite Daz Studio having an in built PBR app for quite some time now. Poser users have been content to use V4 and the huge legacy content designed for her. Daz users have had to buy genesis, then Genesis 2 then Genesis 3 and with each release a regurgitation of the same clothes. How many vendors produce Gen 2 products now ? Daz users probably end up paying more than Poser users. However, that doesn't matter. Sex sells, and V7 is far sexier than any Poser figure. Don't get me started about Pauline.

If you are going to attract new users to Poser, you need to offer at least the same access to state of the art figures.

Superfly is starting to get there, and if the next Poser can include shadow catching and instancing that will be attractive. However Poser cannot continue to rely on a 10 year old figure. It desperately needs a decent figure. SM seem completely incapable of producing one. Hopefully Erogenesis will finally complete his figure in 2017 and there will be a decent competitor to V7.

Hi there

I would agree more people using DS than Poser because is free Reality plugin,have look,why people use Reality more with DS is down to as many people don't have latest NVIDIA GPU and IRAY with any CPU is slow,with Reality you can render with CPU with decent speed which I can't say that about the IRAY or you can combine than with CPU+GPU and you can use or render with AMD GPU as well,due this I would consider Reality more

And yes agree about the new figure,but all depends what are you looking,I still prefer to use V4 and V3 plus other figures and sometimes export from DS few figures and render them in Poser

Instancing would love to have in Poser,but still don't think we will have that feature

Hope this helps

Thanks,Jura