3D-Mobster posted at 11:10AM Sat, 03 November 2018 - #4338864

EClark1894 posted at 1:07PM Sat, 03 November 2018 - #4338845

Both Superfly AND Firefly already use HDRI lighting and have been able to for quite a while.

Figures are a matter of taste and hype. It actually took me a while to like V4 and I never really did like A4. I thought V3 and A3 were better lookig figures. None of that means that hyper realistic figures aren't better, just different and not what I need.

I know that Poser can use HDRI, but the features are very limited for actually working with HDRI. For instant the ability to rotate the map, control it strength and so on. Even the ability to work with a default light while the HDRI is the only light in the scene.

Obviously figures are a matter of taste wont argue with that, but to me there is a reason why G and V characters are so popular and its not only a matter of content. But they are actually quite good. With decent rigs and so forth. And there is no reason as I see it, why SM shouldn't match them with their own characters, remember that Poser through all the releases kept adding new characters and for the most time of higher quality, as far as I know, it started to really drop when they failed matching those that Daz released. And my guess is that they thought it weren't really important because people could just use those. But it have put them behind in my opinion. Because they have to follow up of what figures Daz releases, as you can see when the new G were released and it couldn't easily be used in Poser. In my opinion that is a bad position to be in for SM, instead of making and supporting their own characters.

They didn't really fail by matching DAZ. In fact, if I recall, correctly, three of them, NearMe, Terai Yuki and Miki actually became quite popular. I believe what happened next was similar to what happened to Genesis. Poser changed the rigging on the figures. Up until that point, I believe the figures in Poser would work in Studio. When Poser changed the rigging, DAZ didn't adopt the change, and the figures would no longer work in Studio. I seem to recall a little dust up about it, but no gigantic push back, but that's why Poser figures don't work in Studio.