Richardphotos posted at 7:01PM Sun, 06 August 2017 - #4311452

I told Daz before (2-3 years ago) that if it was not for Poser they would not be in business. the poser users made them a wealthy company and enabled them to pay someone to design competing software.

I do admit that daz has kept me using Poser with the advent of Victoria 4.

I sincerely hope that bondware does not go the route of rdna and other providers of content.

if it was to happen(shudders) I would have to reply on my huge runtime to keep me doing renders and where I would post would be up in question.

of course I took advantage of the huge discount on rdna when they sold out to daz. I still yet have to use some of the content

If, when, why, what... it does not really matter. Maybe Poser started it off but Daz took it a whole lot further in their development of the still FREE software Daz3d. Poser is like a Dinosaur and will get * extinct * if they do not start putting more effort in their software, adding new and exciting things and most of all, usable figures that do not get only 2 months of content creation by Vendors but stay interesting like V4.2 and the Genesis line. Smith Micro had their chance to go hand in hand with Daz3d but I guess they do not really want to commit to it as they do not only sell Poser, where Daz3d is committed to stay exciting, develop and bring out characters that will always be exciting to work with. Sadly Poser got left behind, but that is the way this Industry works. I LOVED Poser a lot, but when Genesis came out and the ease of using Genesis I was sold on DazStudio.

If you love your Poser and your work with Poser than that is great, and I still see a lot of Vendors here at Renderosity that create for Poser and V4.2.

I remember when I first started with Daz Studio * before I gone Poser and later back Daz Studio * we had the same dilemma. No one was making things to use in Daz Studio, only a few things Studio came with and we had to convert skins of V3 to look better in Studio.

I know how it feels.

You can also say that Daz3D helped Poser when they came out with V4 because the figures that Smith Micro provided with their software have been bad.