thip opened this issue on Jun 29, 2002 ยท 57 posts
ronstuff posted Sun, 30 June 2002 at 12:20 AM
DAZ is claiming that by adding a morph to a clothing item that makes it confrom with a V2 or M2 morphed figure, you are passing information that would subvert the need to buy Michael2 of Vicky2. This is just plain silly if we would stop bickering for just a minute and examine the possibility a bit closer. Do any of us really think that having a body suit (even one with all the M2 body morphs) would in any realistic way subvert the need to have Michael2? Could anyone realistically use a morphing bodysuit as a credible substitute for M2 or V2 including their functionality? Could you REALLY pass those morphs EFFECTIVELY back to M1 and DUPLICATE M2? - NONSENSE - you might get a few body parts to be similar, but the effort woudl be monumental and frustrating. What about other clothing? Would a pair of shorts which were (legally) designed to conform to Michael2's body also conform to a bodysuit that was morphed to look like M2? NO, of course not. All you have is spandex for superheroes, swimwear and underwear, and even those things don't work right on the Michael bodysuit because it is so crappy!. There is no real threat here, there is NO way you can reproduce Michael 2 via any of the techniques in question. Well, maybe if you devote a hundred hours in trying, you might come close, but if your time is worth ANYTHING it would not be a rational thing to do! It's just cheaper to buy Michael 2 and his crummy morphing CloPak than to go to all that trouble. And if anybody actually DID it I say Bravo! You proved it could be done! So what. For 20 bucks you could have saved yourself a LOT of time. So then will hundreds or thousands of people start doing it even if someone proves it can be done? DAZ is leading some of us to believe that there is some simple process whereby you load Michael 1, push a button, and VOILA!, you have Michael2, and that is just Hogwash! Even using the Tailor isn't as fast or simple as they suggest, and it doesn't always give the expected results, so there is NO way it can reproduce anything close to a threat to DAZ. I'm so sorry to see Scifiguy pull his body suit - even though it only had a few of the full body morphs, it was vastly superior to the piece of crap made by DAZ because of its better mapping. THAT is what I perceive to be the truth behind the issue. A superior product IS a threat to them even if it does not violate their copyright in the strict sense, so they make up some other pretense to get it off the market. That's how it looks to me.