randym77 opened this issue on Sep 02, 2021 · 45 posts
FVerbaas posted Tue, 07 September 2021 at 9:55 AM Forum Coordinator
I have my doubts, to be honest. Another figure with no doubt limited compatibility with existing figures (unless maybe current Dawn who is rig-wise pretty much an exception) is yet more dilution.
I have not heard of any features that would make her indispensable. Rig is still T-pose so just as (un)suitable to use with dynamic clothing as any existing Poser figure except Ali's Angels. Why do you think these popular G... figures went to an A pose when DForce was about to come? Why do you think the Gxx series were introduced with backward compatibility options?
I did put some cards on Paul/Pauline when she came out, made investments, only to see them trashed when Rendo took over and showed reluctant to even admit the figures exist, let alone provide tools to re-use content. I do not think they will give new Dawn any priority over or next to the Gaul figurehead couple.
**I sincerely hope that time will prove me wrong, though. **
Unless Dawn2 comes with uv alternative mapping and material definitions to seamlessly load textures made for some popular existing figures and on-the-fly conversions and refits of conformers I see no reason to invest in Dawn2. I will make a Dawn2 plugin for the Prefitter when requested, and, when MD fixes their support for Python in MD10, a Dawn2 base for the MDBridge.