diogenese19348 posted at 2:45PM Wed, 21 March 2018 - #4326478

I am a pretty heavy buyer of content, and while I have used both Poser and D/S I vastly prefer D/S. Poser always seemed more difficult to work with, and I stopped updating it in 2012. In any case, I do buy a lot of poser props and environments - I can handle reshading them without a problem, it usually isn't necessary. What everybody is complaining about is the figures though - and Genesis 3 and 8 don't work in Poser because of some nefarious scheme by DAZ to destroy Poser, it's because Smith Micro can't be bothered to supply support for the figures. DAZ is in the business of selling content, who's program it is used in doesn't matter to them. Male_M3dia is completely correct, the place you should be sending those cards and letters to complaining about a lack of content for Poser is Smith Micro.

The wacky thing here is that Smith Micro doesn't create content, and really haven't put much time and effort into creating a market for it either, Content Paradise is woefully out of date. So they aren't in competition with DAZ either. It shouldn't matter to them who creates third party content.

So, you want content that works in Poser? You need to talk to the guys that maintain Poser to make them include support for content. That would be Smith Micro.

The funny thing was, a few years ago when PAs were working with the DSON importer and Poser to make content work in both programs, we told poser users to speak to SM about content because with the money we were making with DS content, we knew this day was coming because the market was shifting. And it's interesting now that people that bashed and attacked people that wanted content to work in both programs are in these threads complaining about the lack of Poser content, especially now that many of their mainstay vendors have switched programs to make a living. And if the effort was made by customers back then to hold SM to the fire to supply their needs, rather than badger stores and vendors, they would have had the content they need.

These days I'm not advocating the whole DS/SM content working bit, that time has passed; but what I am saying is that Poser users need to start listening to their vendors on what they need to stay in the market and make it easier to give you what you need and SM also needs to be responsive to give vendors the tools to make content easier. This lack of listening to what your vendors are asking for is why you have a figure on the market now that's hard to make conforming clothing for it and doesn't even have a pair of shoes on the market to buy.