Rhia474 posted at 12:51 PM Sun, 26 February 2023 - #4457005

As a purely end user, here is what I think:

Right now, after understanding the whole unimesh thing (thanks for explaining, guys!)--my main issue is that you can fix the render engine as much as you want, if there are no quality Superlfy-capable products on the market, the program is doomed. A ton of content is not easy to translate/ retexture because there are no good tutorials about it, so end user needs to discover by trial and error. Also, textures and promo renders (with a very few exception) for new poser products are subpar to those for DAZ.
You can't change end user behavior if you don't support vendor understanding and end user learning.

Agreed. Some of the Superfly promo images are awful. (Though they seem to be improving.)

And I think Superfly is honestly more difficult and finicky than Firefly. (Which is difficult and finicky enough.) As others have noted, once you find settings you like in Firefly, they pretty much work for every scene. With Superfly, you need to fiddle with the settings for every different scene.

It doesn't help that preview doesn't work well with a lot of Superfly materials, and it takes so long to do even test renders.

Vendor understanding would definitely help. That's how it was with Firefly, as I recall. Promo renders that made people want to buy the product, and often it would come with a light set and instructions on render settings.