wolf359 posted at 12:43PM Mon, 28 January 2019 - #4344370

The attachment to V4 is not merely a practical logistic one but a cultural mindset.

No my friend, as I stated earlier any figure that does not offer the invisible, seamless transition that Genesis one did from V4 in Daz studio, will never supplant or even seriously compete with V4 in poser.

And that's never going to happen because Smith Micro does not own the Daz figures, and the only way to incorporate that seamless transition into Poser is if Smith Micro were able to distribute that figure data along with their software. It's no different than Daz incorporating templates for HiveWire's figures in DS. It can't happen without HiveWire's permission. So the closest you get is scripts like Wardrobe wizard that can read data from one figure and translate it to another. And just as numerous folks have pointed out in the past, that conversion/translation is hit and miss. Sometimes it works fine, other times it doesn't. Same with texture transformer. It passes okay sometimes, other times you get bad stretching.

The new figure/vendor support is a catch 22. Most vendors don't want to bother with new figures because they'd rather wait to see if the figure takes off, but it doesn't take off because most customers don't want to invest in the new figure until they see more vendor support for it. And the vicious cycle continues.

The only solution really would be if Poser developed something similar to iclone's CC3 software. But I really don't see that happening any time soon. There is the fitting room, but that too requires the user to put their own effort into it, and we see how well that works out for most.