tonyvilters posted at 1:26PM Sat, 28 April 2018 - #4329085

Ach, they just release the best content. Completely agree. The best figures, the best vendors, the best marketing system.

They don't want to create a full bore converter to Poser because they want to get you all into DS.

Once that's Poser is dead and forgotten, they can start to sell DS again.

Full circle business strategy.

Unfortunately for them, this generation of Poser users has all the content they need for V4/M4.

Next generation of 3D artists will probably move over to DAZ/DS if SM does not come up with valuable alternates.

Years later and the misinformation still spreads.

There could never be any "full-fledged" converter because SM refused to put anything in their software to allow that to happen. Poser didn't get the full implementation of the pixar subdivision and other things that the DAZ figures needed until 2 versions later. The excuse many of the users that came to SM's defense was, "that's proprietary so SM doesn't want to implement it." So DAZ made genesis 3 with industry standard Dual Quaterion weightmapping that SM could implement for free and made it so you needed nothing of DAZ's to bring it into poser. Now is that in the software yet? Not at all, and as you can see from the marketplace here, you see that customers got tired of waiting for SM to do anything on meaningful on the figure development front, so there's no need for a converter now. SM can mark it up as opportunity lost.

That said, some people still make items for V4 just not in the quantities some want, while others are waiting for other figures to upgrade to that has the same appeal. Also on the comment of "this generation".. what about the next?

Anyway, let's not derail the topic with rehashes of things that don't matter years later.