diogenese19348 posted at 1:36PM Thu, 16 November 2017 - #4318088

I think there may be a difference in Philosophies involved. DAZ gives away the software and supports it with content sales which is why they put so much importance on content: that's what pays for the whole thing. Smith Micro's view is that they sell you the software and YOU are responsible for creating the content. They aren't in the content business, they are in the software business. For better or worse. DAZ is much better at fostering a community that creates content because that is their business. It's a marketing issue, not a technology one.

As far as pretty girl vs other content, I spend plenty of money on other content. If you aren't seeing it, you aren't trying very hard. Either here or at DAZ

Part of the fallout between SM & DAZ was because SM wanted to have a cut of content sales. Part of that was through that exorbitant price to make v4 face room compatible. Part was through Content Paradise. Then they started cutting out brokerages from listing their catalogs on CP by raising their cut while offering nothing extra in return (they don't even test products).

It was felt that the company that owned Poser should have an interest in the content sold for it.

I don't hate Poser, it's my first love in 3D. But there are far fewer resources for me to learn to light and create for superfly correctly and the product I made for it this year might as well have been a freebie for the sales it had. Most (not all) of the Poser content I'm seeing looks like stuff from 10 years ago in quality and shading. That's due to the lack of resources (tutorials etc) for getting better results.

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