wolf359 posted at 6:54AM Tue, 17 September 2019 - #4362257

I think this is a really good move also ... I suspect a certain

"other company" is getting...well...concerned? LMAO

Honestly lets not start that tired old trope in this thread.

This is good news for existing poser users as bondware has made it clear that their plan for saving poser is partnering with third parties who have the experience and expertise like Hivewire seems to have.

This, however is a non event for the average Daz studio user who is tied in to the Daz genesis content eco system where everything is delivered ready to use in their free base program and the 50%+ discount sales are perpetual.

Dawn and Dusk are not new figures and certainly are not an incentive for the DS user to run over and $$buy Poser$$ to get them free any more so than Lafemme was such an incentive.

Bondware partnered with Reallusion to sell the Iclone product line here in the RMP.

And and Hivewire Partnered with Reallusion to support theHivewire figures natively in the new Character creator 3 program for Iclone that now has the IRay render engine and Character animation tools comparable to Autodesk Motionbuilder.

Was there a Mass exodus of Poser or Daz users flocking over to $$buy Iclone$$ and CC3??.

well the Iclone CC3 forum here has not had a new post in over 90 days so I would Guess..not really.

And Daz the Company is still trying to convince the professional Autodesk users to adopt thier Genesis figures with yet another Genesis to Maya plugin that will likely be largely ignored by the CG professionals who use custom assets for every TV and Movie production

So yes,.. a labor/investment free win for Bondware and a great marketing opportunity for Hivewire but certainly not a major paradigm shift in this limited hobbiest /tinkerer,still render market.

...and on and on blah blah blah

Did I say anything about the average DAZ user? Don't come after me because I had the audacity to joke about a long standing ridiculous situation.