PLEASE do not bash me for what i'm about to type, and keep in mind i've never used DS, been playing in Poser since 2K1...

but a thought has occurred to me, and because i want & wish for Poser to continue to be a viable program, i'll take a risk & post my thought... and it is MY THOUGHT, and based on conversations i've had with a few vendors & their experiences only, not on my own experience...

ok, that said, here goes:

if we take the premise that Content is King, i think there could be better tools than there are currently to create content for Poser with Poser itself. my understanding is that old dedicated Poser content creators not only switched to 'chase the money', so to speak, but once there, found that creating content for DS was easier within DS than it was creating content for Poser within Poser.

and maybe, in part, i dunno, that's why in recent years, Poser figures haven't quite gotten as much love as they should - vendors left for cash & ease of creating. maybe if some truly robust innovative tools [moreso than what exists today] were created at least for a Pro version, whatever figure[s] Poser lands with could get even more support, attracting new vendors & perspectives, as well as re-attracting older vendors [hope i'm making sense]...