randym77 posted at 6:52PM Mon, 16 September 2019 - #4362178

I wonder if they might try again to get more Poser customers, with Poser getting some new life now.

Perhaps... but likely as an opportunity thing rather than as any sort of vision/mission statement.

I don't blame HW for doing it. Poser needs a lot of solid content, HW has a lot of solid content, and banking one's business future on one application is, well, dumb... the move makes perfect sense. Rendo can only buy-up so much mesh to stuff into Poser, so the alliance makes even more sense in that light.

As far as all the posts saying DAZ is doomed, etc... well, not really. They'll both be around for a very long time, slowly diverging. I figure I can script my way to keep a bridge going for as long as I feel like putting in the effort, or at worst, slowly porting the whole mountain of crap I own into some third-party application someday like wolf359 did (I think?). Vicky is 100x as versatile nowadays as the old gal was in 2001, and I fully expect its evolution to march unabated. I also find myself falling in love with a lot of figures that have been around my drives for eons - thanks to SubD, rigging mods, and collision/autofit, I can resurrect old figures and make them do things they never could do in DS 1.0 or Poser 6... (and in a month or so -- once I'm certain the whole transition form SM -> Rendo is sufficiently complete, I'll see what Poser 11 can do.)

Consider that I (or you!) can open and read an .obj file with just the binaries found natively in either MacOS or Windows 10 now? Not really worried in the long run.