For what it's worth.... I've had no problems thus far using DAZ products within P5, but have only tried a few so far...what I have found, however, is they don't look the same as in Poser 4....texturing seems different, etc...shadows, rendering... Transparency, on hair especially, is a bit tedious..it just doesn't look the same. Much of this is from inexperience in using Poser 5. Yes, DAZ has issues with CL, but you guys have to know that the reason you're in business is because of Poser. A great part of your customers have purchased Poser 5.... I think it will be very detrimental to DAZ if you do not support your products within P5....provide tutorials and FAQs on how to use the Material Room to achieve the best look....how to apply the textures , etc. Provide settings and so forth.... You don't have to have vic and mike utilize the new features, although it would sure be nice, and you don't have to work with CL anymore...but Poser is your bread and butter....if you cut it off at P4, you're going to ultimately lose much customer base. You should at least provide as much user information as you can to use DAZ content in P5, to the level that is possible. To take a different look at it, DAZ can back off and the Poser users will provide the needed tutorials and FAQs. My philosophy is that I am a Poser user, be it Poser 4 or Poser 5, but a POSER user since version 1. I have now moved to Poser 5....yes, there are problems in P5, but it appears they are being addressed. Unless CL totally drops the ball and this baby falls dead, I'll be using Poser 5 exclusively at some point. DAZ, spawned from Zygote, to support the Poser community, is one of many content providers for Poser, but probably the best. If they are going in a different direction, away from Poser, what does this mean to me? I move to a different provider for Poser content. Is there a statement somewhere from DAZ that explains what their path is in regards to Poser? Will their new products only be developed for Poser 4---will there be a blip in the readme that they do not support their products in P5...or will DAZ sell the stuff and not provide support for its use in P5...I can't see it both ways...it seems to me it has to be one or the other.

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