wolf359 posted at 7:53PM Wed, 07 June 2017 - #4306964

One must remember that supporting the Daz figures involves more than just getting a functional Daz female into poser. Content development for the G2 female has effectively ceased except for non affiliated content makers, like myself,who prefers the Genesis 2 figures and make my own clothing to render in C4D with C4D mats.( see pic)

Going forward All of the DAZ content will have IRay Materials for Genesis 3 and the inevitable Genesis 4

People want the latest figures&content.

The reality is this:

The Daz studio user base is not retrievable.. we are NOT coming back to poser. The self proclaimed "poser loyalists"are relatively static demographic who don't actually contribute to growth in market share.

and why would a total newbie choose to $$$buy$$$ poser and settle for an older DSON imported G2 female with diminishing support.

When he /she could start with the latest FREE Daz studio and the latest Genesis Figures and content.

I should have stated that the DSON compatibility fix/restoration would definitely need to include Genesis 3, as well as be kept up to date as much as possible for G4, etc. You also bring up a very good point - there would need to be an easy way to convert Iray materials to Poser as well. I was just saying that I personally use Genesis 2 in Poser Pro 2014 because it works really well. SM really needs to modernize Poser. The flipside is that if DAZ introduces a modern openGL viewport mode, I will switch to DAZ Studio. The problem SM has is that not everyone is as particular about certain things as I am, and many have already moved on to DAZ Studio, never to return. The longer SM takes trying to excuse their way around sub-standard first-party content, the more they're going to continue losing customers. They can't hope to win back those already lost (with maybe an extremely tiny handful of exceptions), but they can do things to stop the bleeding. Will they? Who knows.

My point being, there is only so far some of us loyalists are willing to go before we just say forget it and switch to something else. As much as I love Poser, I can't justify spending money on new versions that aren't upgrades.