moogal posted at 6:25AM Sun, 21 July 2019 - #4357595

EClark1894 posted at 5:39AM Sun, 21 July 2019 - #4357581

Only thing is, if the software being free is the only reason I chose Poser, why would I choose a crippled (or stripped down) version over a fully functional DS?

You would choose the free version to load Poser specific content, just as you would use D|S to load D|S specific content. To re-phrase your question: If you would only choose Poser if it were free what interest would you have in the current not-free versions?

Exactly. I CHOOSE to buy Poser. DAZ keeps putting free versions of DS in my product library. To this day, I've only used two versions of DS. Version 2 because it was the only one that would run on my Mac at the time, and version 4.8 because I was trying to see if I could create content for both software. Aside from managing to do the most rudimentary things in DS, I didn't like having to learn everything over again and gave up. I've asked a couple of Studio vendors for their help, and I am grateful, but I prefer Poser, even if I have to pay for it.