randym77 posted at 6:30AM Fri, 23 August 2019 - #4360223

Bwahahahahaha! The OP ended up choosing...Blender. Not Poser, not DAZ, Blender. ?

I know, right? I wish him luck, and hope it works out for him (no, seriously!)

Sean is right - I have a habit of getting into the weeds too often, and focusing on the business side, when in reality, most of the forumites (let alone most of Poser's userbase) just wants something to make pretty pictures. Kinda what it's built for. Small businesses and freelancers will use it (a lot more than they will ever admit) as well. I'll spew it in English: Poser/DAZ figurines pop up, often unaltered/unmorphed, on airport billboards, on real billboards, in courtrooms (I used to make a tidy sum doing that long ago), on home-brew TV shows way up in the nosebleed channels, newspaper coupon inserts (that DAZ smiley/emoticon dude is pretty irritating by now), and even places like the frickin' self-checkout stands at the local grocer.

So yeah, it gets used by a lot of folks, damned near everywhere, by folks on a budget.

I do have one question, though: Is Rendo going to streamline their patches into sales of Poser between now and whenever they release their rebranded version?

One of the reasons I want to buy it (as mentioned in that DS forum thread) is because I want to go back to using a MacBook Pro, and not just Windows-based stuff. Alas, Apple decided to shun nvidia GPUs, and nvidia-dependent iRay, while it can use a CPU, only does so with a massive performance hit... screw that. I prefer to keep my options open, yanno? While my recently retired MBP lasted 5+ years w/o a hitch (my wife uses it now), I just replaced the fans on this Acer Aspire 7, barely a year after I bought it. I'd rather pay $3k or so for something that will last another 5 years, instead of $1200 every 12-18 months for the 'doze ecosystem, which is apparently what I'm staring down now.

Anyrate... :)