EClark1894 posted at 5:55PM Tue, 23 July 2019 - #4357823

Folks, if you want to talk about laptops and smartphones, please go start another thread. This one is about figures.

Good point. (no idea who got the idea that Poser should run on a smartphone... that's just nuts. Now if someone wants to make an ARM-compatible old-school... heh. I'll stop.)

Okay - figures. Second priority, but important nonetheless.

Here's how it boils down:

Figure out which figure sells, is competently built, has the greatest flexibility,and has the best long-term potential.

...then buy it. Incorporate it into Poser. Hire the best mesh-mongers you can buy. Support that figure. Keep it through multiple versions. Nurture it as time passes, and be sure to include backwards compatibility as you make changes.

You-know-who does this now. They're anywhere from 3 to 6x larger than Renderosity almost precisely because they do this (the wide range is due to guesstimating Alexa's curve, but be assured, they are far larger, healthier, and by all signs still growing at a decent, healthy rate). They don't scatter their attention while flitting from mesh to mesh with each new iteration of their flagship application, or hoping/praying that someone, somewhere out there will build a Vicky-killer!!!!!11!!OMG!!! (patent pending). They keep their eyes on the prize, and have done so ever since the Unimesh Vicky/Aiko/Stephanie/Michael/David/Yadda 3 came out.

Renderosity needs to do the same w/ Poser.

Does this mean reject all non-blessed/imprimatured figures? Of course not! Invite them to the party. Dare them to do better, and if one does, buy that, slowly working it in over the next X iterations (again, remember your backwards compatibility and include conversion workflow to the point of one-to-three-click adaptation.) Just be certain that if you do decide to replace, that the replacement is so badassed that you're willing to bet the company on it, since you'd be deviating from the long-term goal of curating one excellent and carefully-built figure.

...is that easy enough to grok, campers?