EClark1894 opened this issue on Jul 05, 2019 ยท 217 posts
tonyvilters posted Fri, 19 July 2019 at 4:11 AM
Recap.
From Poser1 (where I started) to Poser 4, everything was NEW. Customers said, "hey, what is THIS? And THIS is fun" ! ! ! ! Most content was hobby and released as freestuff. I remember NEW free stuff each and everyday (and a VERY active Poser forum community)
From Poser4-5 onwards, the setup room, the hair and cloth and face room from Poser 5, gave the tools to enhance the content. There was very little content and most that could weld 2 boxes became hobby vendors because they could make some pocket money.
The problem was the quality of the figures provided, and see => DAZ came with V1, and that is basically how DAZ started.
Onwards a few years, and Poser grows as an app, and DAZ grows as figure provider and releases V4/M4. At the time a HUGE step forwards in figure quality.
Current situation; Everybody knows what happened these last years, and everybody bought a HUGE content closet for V4/M4.
Future; As mentioned above, the vendor that puts bikini number 15.001 up for sale has how many sales? Is it better then the 15.000 before? It has to be, or he can keep it.
Modern figures; Are they "better", are they more "robust" then say, V4/M4, Dawn and Dusk, Rex and Roxy? Recently we had Bella, PE, LF, but are they "better" figures?
On the other hand and this is the contradiction; I read here above that some want Texture Transformer support. Some want to keep shoe, and hair compatibility. That is all OK, but don't you want better textures? Better shoes, better hair? Or do you want more of the same?
In the past I wrote : An obj file is just a coathanger to hang the textures on, because it is textures you see, and it is textures you render. You pose the coathanger, but you render the textures.
To change from figure A to figure B is to change the coathanger and everybody has the tools to morph coathanger A into coathanger B and adapt the rig.
What I see as the biggest handbrake; Everybody asks for better figures, but they want to keep their HUGE past investment in V4/M4 content , (including the textures).
The best figure is the figure that has the fewest errors, easy to pose and to build for, and the figure that puts a smile on your face when you render it.
We have more then 30 "prime" figures to choose from already.
The vendor or site, or group of people, that wants to release a "new" figure will have to release a "better" figure with fewer errors then all figures before.
But the V4/M4 existing closets will prevent massive sales. Unless? ? Unless we also build better closets.