Having tought myself to model my own clothing and environments is not some rarified skill and it only take about 30 seconds over on artstation.com to remind me of where I rank (which is nowhere TBH).

That said I was a long time content hoarder since my poser 4 days and it was only because I really needed specific marvel comic Character outfits for The "Galactus Rising" feature film that I had my modeling epiphany.

There forums are their petty fiefdom. Just like Blender artist or the Reallusion forums so they can ban who they will.

I dont hate Daz I just "dislike" Hubris & Hypocrisy.

their Hubris was assuming that as long as their young pretty white pinup girls looked better than the poser natives ( and they always did) then the professional CG community would rush over and become addicted buyers. So no need to appeal to a wider base of users with native animation tools or more male content.

That mass in flux of Autodesk & Maxon Users/buyers never happened (and still has not nor will it ever happen)

But Reallusion supported Genesis 1-2 with a special FBX import template to use Genesis figures in Iclone and for a few years Daz had a forum sticky thread on how to export genesis into Iclone 6 never being concerned about Iclone 5.5-6.5 Superior animation tools.

After G3 broke the Reallusion import template Reallusion realized the folly of chasing the golden unicorn and built Character creator, replete with their own pretty girls and an Optional IRay plugin as well.

Daz instantly burned all bridges with Reallusion not because of Realtime animation tools or IRay but because of some delusional notion that the Genesis white girls are not to be challenged in any competitive way.

Fine their market strategy is thier own business

Reallusion did not Blink but instead Further Developed CHaracter creator up to version 3 with ability to transform Any genesis 1-8 figure into a look alike Iclone native avatar (Genesis 8.1 breaks this ability but we no longer care)

Daz introduces bridge plugins for the Major 3DCCS& Game engines ,two of which are co-opted from third party plugins, in a cynical attempt to convince people that fully functional Genesis is actually portable

It clearly is not without exporting a massive amount of Data bloat that normally resides in your local Daz Data folder making it useless for animation In Maya, Blender Maxon C4D etc..more intellectually insulting Hubris.

Then they receive a megagrant from Epic games for promoting UE4 with their Exporter to UE4 at the same time Epic unveils the Metahumans.

We have all seen the metahumans.... whoops!!

FORGET ABOUT the Iclone/ CC3 Avatars!!

These Metahumans** Curb stomp Genesis in figure realism &facial animation function,** they are causing much buzz in the PROFESSIONAL CG communities while meticulously avoiding the use of early 20s Ideal BMI Chicky poo's as Click bait

Unlike the CC3 Avatars, They are not compatible with any Daz Store content.

Yet Daz allows a long running thread replete with embedded videos about the metahumans because they do not dare Alienate Epic games having taken thier free grant money... more Hypocrisy.

Dont really care about the NFT fiasco as it is Daz's money to waste not mine.

But I am amused at those canting screeds posted by the mutual validation ,moral outrage society ,whom daz is calmly allowing to stomp & Bleet like dependent children who will eventually calm down and rush to buy Genesis 9 the instant it is released.

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