wolf359 posted at 6:19PM Tue, 22 January 2019 - #4344057

And most figures are not built with the intention of being the end-all for their creator, financially. They're intended to be a new platform for new, better content, not a recycle bin.

Indeed!! I would add, as well as a platform for introducing NEW native program specific features & technologies,that are appearing in the industry in general, to enhance the figures versatility/functionality

People need to understand that the ability of Genesis 1-2 to use V4 Content natively was a **temporary measure ** to ease the transition until the NEW G-1/2 content started flowing from the PA's.

Genesis 3 , along with the IRay render engine & Shader system, effectively burned the remaining bridges to the vestiges of the Old V4 Catalogue. And most realize that was intentional.

You need to $$buy$$ a third party UV product from Cayman studio's to use a V4 texture on G3 in Daz studio today.

The overwhelming majority of Daz studio users have long since moved on to the new content lead by the PA's.

The reality is that poser users will never get a transitional ( best of the old & new) figure that Genesis 1-2 was for Daz studio. due to the IP issues mentioned by Ambient Shade

PE with his "V4 conversion process" tried and frankly appears to have utterly failed IMHO.

You people are facing binary choice

This perplexing notion of:

"I wont move to any new poser native figure that does not use all of my 12 years of old V4 content",... is the equivalent of refusing to upgrade your PC until some"enterprising person" creates a modern, top end PC that will still miraculously run all of my old Windows 95 software.

Expecting either of these events to happen, is utter folly.

Or, for some reason which you can't fathom, people are just happy with what they have. It does happen every now and again, you know.