Nails60 posted at 10:58AM Thu, 25 July 2019 - #4357981

Genuine question, what would be the advantage of adopting a new cc figure?

To me, changing figures at this stage would seem very counter productive. LaFemme seems to be selling well, and the amount of support give hope that it can break out of the viscous circle of users not adopting a figure until there is sufficient vendor and vendors not supporting a figure until there are enough users buying products to make it worthwhile.

Kinda depends... does the figure have a good topo that will hold up over the next 5-10 years? Is it clean (no nGons)? Is it flexible (no/little distortion, even in extremis)? Is it easy to morph out of its default facial shape (this bit is more important than you might realize - anybody can make a body morph that alters appearances, but can you make the face not look like the original figure at all, to the point where even folks who have LF have to ask "hey, what figure is that?") Lots of questions like that. I don't have the figure so I cannot tell you one way or the other if the potentials are there.

Now if it fails in some fashion, then it'll be easier to rip that bandaid off now (if a new figure out there is better and available), than to try and disrupt the hell out of the ecosystem 2 years later (or so) after Poser 12 comes out to great fanfare and someone discovers that one little thing wrong in the mesh that they thought nobody would care about.

I also don't get this whole idea of an official figure for Poser. Until Poser 12 becomes a reality, surely the only "official" Poser figure are those included in Poser 11. If there are going to be "official" new figures in Poser 12, and I know some people would argue against this, the obvious would be a LaFemme 2, as it could help Poser sales by saying to customers, you've liked LaFemme, now get the even better LaFemme 2 included in Poser

Absolutely correct, and that is the best way to go about it. The idea of a new official figure that stays and lasts would be launched and made official with the Bondware-approved/owned version. Anything else just invites confusion, or requires a subtle-but-doable means of getting everyone used to the idea beforehand.