prixat posted at 2:30PM Tue, 28 November 2017 - #4318765

Thanks, that was what I was asking, could all of ssgbryan's Star Trek characters have been morphed from G2 Jessi for example? ...and why weren't they?

That would be an awful lot of work to get the same result (TCO fail for me). My goal isn't to be a modeler. That's why Poser is a major part of my workflow and Zbrush (and DS) are helper programs.

It is faster for me to load a mesh, load a figure, make changes, and go. Go look at any storefront. Most character vendors are in a rinse, lather, repeat mode. After a couple it's pointless, unless you are harvesting skin textures.

My methodology is faster for what I do - telling stories. If my goal was stand alone, single image stills, that had no relationship to each other, then my methodology might not be the most efficient, but that isn't what I do.

Using Poser/DS content, I spend a bit of time on the front end, correcting everything that storefront QA's miss, along with bringing order to the chaos that is a typical vendors' runtime. Since I have to do that anyway, what is another few minutes deleting unneeded character morphs from clothing and running it through the fitting room?

Which is another selling point for Poser with me - with DS content, product clean up is several orders of magnitude more work than a typical Poser product.

DreaminGirl posted at 2:38PM 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?

We see concern trolling by DS users and vendors in the Poser forums every time a new figure for Poser comes out. If they truly believed that they made the right choice, they wouldn't spend so much time here - they would be up in the DS forums (which they don't seem to spend much time in - funny that).

I expect them to be out in full force once Project E rolls out at Xmas.

BTW, SM would have to cut a lot of features out of Poser to make it a DS clone.