hornet3d posted at 11:35PM Tue, 16 May 2017 - #4305355

Razor42 posted at 12:16PM Tue, 16 May 2017 - #4305341

While i am not sure what is meant by "unspoken software politics"? Perhaps you would care to elaborate on what that means Boni?

It's natural that the best products for Daz Studio will be built in Daz Studio to take advantage of Daz Studios specific feature set. And the same with Poser. After the fact ports are always a non direct translation and with the differences between the two platforms becoming greater, the effort to port either way is becoming more substantial for the vendor. This paired with the discrepancy in platform capability and end render result, is seeing more vendors choosing to focus support on the platform with the largest market share and in turn buyer base. It boils down to the extra work involved to include Poser in the support base of a product, rarely sees a good ROI for the vendor at this point in time. Making a Poser specific product and doing a port over to DS would still see higher workloads for the vendor and possibly substandard DS product ports that fail to capitalise on the strengths of Daz Studio simply because the vendor is more familar with Poser and its product pipelines. As an end result this could make the product less desirable to the larger Daz Studio market segment, simply to cater to the smaller Poser segment, which doesn't make a great deal of sense tbh. Many vendors report only seeing a slight increase in sales for a DS product that includes support for Poser compared to products that do not. it's through this stat that most vendors are choosing to target a specfic buyer group or platform rather then spread their resources more thinly, for a broader capability product. Whether the the sales numbers are a reflection of the platform user base size or just that the DS user base is more hungry for ready made content is debatable, but really either way it changes the trend little.

Of course this is just my 2 cents.

As a Poser user I do see the lack of support for Poser but I also understand that vendors are going to use the software they are most comfortable with. Elsewhere there has been instances where a vendor that knows DS has worked in conjunction with a Poser vendor to do the conversion. This seems to be a solution that benefits everyone but it will only happen with vendors who are above the 'unspoken software politics'.

Nothing is stopping vendors making a poser resource pack that provides poser support to a prop pack for ds or anything else. Making the original product a requirment to the poser expansion pack is not overtley hard to do and may be worthwhile for a vendor ready to spend the time converting it for poser users. It is definiteley a niche worth exploring.

As far as "unspoken softwate politics" i couldn't say, as i have no idea what is you are referring to? ....

@Boni asking someone to clarify what they mean by a statement or comment is in no way baiting....unless the original statement itself is bait. I'm just asking you to further explain what it is you mean by "unspoken software politics"? Or are you just going to bully me with the tos for asking what you meant? If asking is against the tos, well....