AmbientShade posted at 12:56PM Sun, 27 January 2019 - #4344034

If you expect all that, then what's the damned point? Just stick with V4.

You can!

Well, you can until DAZ gets tired of giving away the base mesh, and pulls it from their site. Then what? Sure, those who have it can keep it, but any newbies are kinda screwed... and all that V4 stuff will still be out there.

Content artists are not coders. So without the tech being built directly into Poser, or a 3rd party script, it would flat out be illegal for content artists to try doing that.

Fun trivia: You are correct, but at the same time not quite: Nothing prevents a content artist from providing those scripts, or a coder from doing so. Poser's entire history is packed with people who have done this. shrug

A lot of that old content would - and does - look like crap on a modern figure anyway.

True, to a point, but you're telling all those folks who have all those thousands of bucks sunk into all those meshes, textures, morphs, whatever... to go spend more.

So your answer to all of us who have been around forever, is 'too bad - wait until we make enough stuff for the new figure, and then buy it.' ?

Meanwhile, Over in you-know-where, their latest figure lets me use all of my old V4 stuff, and it works incredibly well.

Can I show you something?

So what's my incentive to dump V4 and go with $newFigure again?

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.

So who says they can't be?