diogenese19348 posted at 3:11PM Mon, 29 January 2018 - #4323297

What DAZ Studio has and Poser doesn't at this point is an ecosystem. It isn't that I think the DAZ figures are better than the ones Ero or Sixus1, or Hivewire have made, it's that DAZ has built an environment where people give me the tools to reuse what I already have. I can move poses from V4 up to V8. I can share a lot of the skins and morphs. And darned near all the clothes. The base character in the Genesis 1,2,3,8 series can be modified in all sorts of ways. And these are all things that the figures being built for Poser have to compete with.

I really think the problem isn't the vendors, or the respective platforms, the problem is the lack of direction at Smith Micro. They need to build an ecosystem. To date, they have been focused on selling a Program. The two aren't the same thing.

I agree about the lack of direction, but not so much how you've explained the ecosystem.

All the tools and methods used to create and manipulate content comes from DAZ3D working with the vendors to find out what they need to make content for customers. And that direction is how people come on board and can export and import the content and do things with it without too much hand coding or scripting. Generally what is released is made to help customers and vendors use content more efficiently.. like autofit or automorph generation. That finding out what vendors and customers need is that ecosystem that's missing with Poser. Unfortunately, in the poser realm vendors making content are treated as afterthoughts, dumping figures into the market that have no input from vendors or considers how they work. Any comment or concerns from vendors seem to be instantly dismissed by SM or customers.. I've heard that from former vendors at RDNA and elsewhere where it seems like the message to vendors is forget about your ethics and conscience, we need clothes for figures. That's not really going to entice them to make the content you want and if you want to keep your vendors happy, you have to start listening to them rather than talking at them.