DreaminGirl posted at 11:44AM Tue, 28 November 2017 - #4318775

Oh I agree, it's just that it seems so many doing the 'pulling' are people who don't even USE Poser. Like so many have said before, if Poser becomes a DS clone, what is the point of Poser?

The 'master mesh' concept doesn't make Poser a DS clone by itself. Technically it's been possible in Poser going back to Apollo Maximus. The tools Poser has provided over the last few versions have made it even easier to create a master mesh type figure, without making anyone dependent on it if they don't like that concept. There are a couple key ingredients it's lacking in order to be complete. UV swapping (so that textures don't get stretched with extreme morphs) and proper geometry swapping/grafting that doesn't break weight maps. That and removing the dependency on a mesh being broken into groups, so that all figures are truly single mesh. No more duplicated verts. If Poser 12 had just those 3 features I'd be happier than a sailor in a cat house and would buy 3 copies. But removing group dependency is apparently not an easy task, at least as I understand it. Adding features to the fitting room so that the results can be redistributed as morphs without violating copyrights would also be pretty awesome.