A_Sunbeam posted at 1:03PM Mon, 21 January 2019 - #4343959

I could, of course, use Daz Studio, which I have. I’m not trying to start a fight here, but I can’t get on with Daz; which may have something to do with the fact that I’m nearly 80 and rather stuck in my ways… And, of course, though Studio is free, the supplies are not; they are very good, but I find them very expensive.

Totally understood - they give away the razor and sell the blades. Kind of their modus operandi.

I use V3, V4, A3, M3 and M4 most of the time. They will do for the little pictures I spend my time creating. There is sufficient variety (in my opinion) within the many V4 morphs I have acquired, for what I want to do.

There is this as well, which also makes perfect sense (and kind of what I was driving as at the current status.)

What we need is some really clever person who can create a version of Genesis that can be used in Poser without all the farting about with Dyson etc.

That's going to be tough. What they do provide (the DSON route) is more a means to drive residual sales for the stuff, than it is any sort of massive outreach to the Poser community. My opinion, they make enough from sales of DS-only stuff for DS users these days that they aren't as eager to make it easy on the Poser-only crowd, nor would it make financial sense for them to go any further than they already do (even if the path they provide is a giant pain in the butt).

OK, I shall be told this is impossible or not practical, but well there you are, there’s my tuppence. I know I can’t do it, I haven’t the skills. But I bet you anything you like there’s someone out there who could rise to the challenge if it took their fancy!

I agree - at least drive and build a means to convert the v4 stuff into whatever new figure becomes dominant (or blessed by Smith Micro), and they're halfway there. Pretty sure anything further would be out of their legal reach (because DAZ isn't quite going to hand over their filespecs in full to Smith Micro without somebody writing a massively fat check to DAZ first. Perhaps an enterprising soul can use the DS API to write a better exporter?)