SatiraCapriccio posted at 11:04AM Fri, 28 June 2019 - #4355128

I know why some are adamant about Genesis as it's been rather clear for quite some time that some believe only DAZ is capable of creating decent figures, despite evidence to the contrary. I also know why some people believe only DAZ is the place to go for content ... any content. Their marketing department could probably convince people that liver tastes better than steak.

I actually laughed at this - thank you.

I also get why some people think both the Hair room and Cloth room should be ditched because they aren't exactly the easiest to learn to use. But I've no idea why the fascination with cycles. I was just trying to understand why people are so adamant cycles is the only route Poser should go.

It's more realistic than Firefly, and in my case much faster too. It's what we got after Firefly. And if it's ditched or changed at this point, we break a huge lot of existing content.

Of course, as I mentioned previously, I don't get Superfly. Contrary to those who use Blender, it makes no sense to me, and I don't find it easy to learn to use ... at all. But I'm not advocating Superfly be ditched. For that matter, I'm not all that unhappy with either the Poser Cloth or Hair rooms. They just need some love, not ditched.

For me, Cycles is super easy (compared to the default Poser root), Poser Cloth room is counter-intuitive and complicates things that should be easy, and the Hair room I gave up entirely.

Simulating in Poser should be just as easy as loading a figure, loading a piece of clothing, and clicking simulate. We should also be able to pause, adjust, and unpause, rather than always having to restart the simulation from Frame 1. Definitely, we should also be able to tweak the settings as needed.

Yup, agreed.

I'm really rather happy with the Fitting room, and seriously cannot imagine attempting to rig with the Setup room. Well, I can imagine. I've attempted to do so. It's a pain. I'm not as crazy with using the Fitting room for converting clothing from one figure to another, but I don't think DS autofit is the solution either. From what I've seen, Autofit works better on some clothing, while it fails on other clothing.

I think options should exist - mainly a few-clicks solution targeted at the casual end-user converting clothing, and a more detailed and advanced solution for content creators. Which is basically what we get with the Fitting Room and the Setup Room, but the Fitting Room needs to be simplified (like, do we NEED to create a new instance? Can we just get a "fit X figure to Y figure" as a starting point?) and the Setup Room needs to be made more precise and less daunting.

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