diogenese19348 posted at 3:24PM Thu, 16 November 2017 - #4318088

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.

Seven years later, that excuse simply won't do. There's far too many threads here and other sites for that to accepted. Understand, that years ago SM did the very same thing that DAZ3D except they sold the software and relied on others to provide the content. This isn't something they couldn't do, they could... they just didn't because they had others doing if for them. Now that that resource is no longer there (or they won't leverage the tech so they can use new items), they need to either adjust the way they position the product or drop the price. With the financial health of the parent company, I'm not sure how much can be done to address content now; but what they and others can no longer do is blame a competitor for their woes.. we're seven years later into this discussion. What is the plan that SM needs to do, not DAZ? Most likely they'll need to overhaul the software to make it easier for figure development to happen... things like even exporting an obj without it being broken up into groups (and toss the way it groups moving forward) is a step in the right direction.

(note: you can do this without breaking compatibility; DAZ has the old poser-style rigging, triax and the Dual Quaterion (aka General) weight mapping in the same program. It doesn't have to be all or nothing)