EClark1894 posted at 7:20PM Thu, 04 July 2019 - #4356035

5 years? Really? You sure about that?

Could've been 4. it started during all the uncertainty that Curious Labs was emanating, and the demands from CL that DAZ pay licensing fees to have Vicky work with certain new features in the then-upcoming Poser 5. DAZ wasn't having any of that noise, and when Poser 5 started flopping hard (before Curious Labs itself flopped and EGISys showed up), development went from a POC to full-bore commitment.

Addendum: It was around the time Poser 5 came out, because I'd first seen the (semi-working) POC when I first showed up at Draper - around the time I first got and installed Poser 5 (and it takes awhile to write a decent engine, so DS had to have been in development for at least a year to 18 months before I saw it). Anton Keisel was also there at the time, if I recall correctly (...or did I meet him the 2nd-3rd time I went down there? Can't recall offhand.)