More than a week has passed since many people, e.g. bagginsbill, have asked clarifications on the level of accessibility to the Cycles engine thru the Material Room.

Why this silence? It does take two minutes to write a post "all Cycles nodes will be mapped into the material room". Unless the answer is the understandable letdown of "forget it, you will only get what Firefly exposes today".

I remember when not long ago some people were arrogantly boasting "we don't need no stinkin' content" shooting down the opinion of those that stated that content is vital for this market.

Now that V4 (and in general Poser specific) content is dwindling away the same people are looking for some saviour to provide the previously not so necessary content.

As Spock said, amusing. Even more amusing are the first pages of Rendo market. It is a Genesis/Iray litany, just a step below DAZ market. I am waiting for the day in which there won't be a single Poser specific product in the whole first page.

@wolf359: I was abiding to the intimation that this is Poser forum and therefore the D-word should not be uttered. Actually, up to a week ago, also the word Cycles was verboten, as demonstrated by fictionalbookshelf censoring of my Cycles renders thread but the Party line has changed now.

Bantha is right. Poser users are not going to update their shaders so I consider likely that Cycles embedding will be just a 1-to-1 mapping of FireFly nodes in Cycles ones, getting out of the deal little more than a less buggy, less sucky alternative to the previous render. All discussions I am seeing in these P11 related threads are open eyes dreams since they require the use of the Elbow Grease plugin, a no-no for point-and-clickers.

If you want the real McCoy, export your scene as OBJ, bring it into Blender, redo the shaders with Cycles or OSL and render. You can do it today, for free. No time booby trapped DRM scheme involved. When in Blender, apart from Cycles yo might check also RenderMan 20 and its Blender bridge. There is a growing thread about it on BlenderArtists forum and most posters are enthusiastic.

We're just unfortunate (?) that we live in a period of continuous flux for a form of technology.

The Mona Lisa is just as valid an oil painting today as it was when it was created.

Or maybe we live in a fantastic period of development, when every day brings new tools, new technologies and new knowledge allowing us to do more and more. And for Mona Lisa, imagine the hardon Leonardo would get sitting in front of a high-end graphic station equipped with the best tools available today. Rest assured that he would not complain.

Again from Blenderartists (http://blenderartists.org/forum/showthread.php?372859-Tyrion, this wrecked editor chokes on this URL), June 2015

Modeling/sculpting/texturing in zBrush, everything else in Blender.

We start, simple and easy.

Data: March 2010, Blenderartists relevant thread.

The author is not very clear, but I presume that no other tools apart Blender have been involved. 

If you really want to use Genesis /Genesis 2 content in Poser, you are much better off using the DSON Importer for Poser. That is what it is for, after all. 

You are missing the scope of the exercise. Doing things the canonical way is for wimps and slaves of the evil corporations; even worse, you end up with a success. Doing things in a convoluted and painful way, ending inevitably with a suboptimal result is the precondition to be able to reach the desired conclusion that the new technology is inferior to the good ol' ways.

 Wow, Kurmudgenou2K54, 24 posts in your first day joining renderosity, thats a good effort. Most of them aimed at trying to talk DS down or attacking other members, that does seem a little strange. Perhaps you also have another account here?

I see you do not have any images in your gallery here, maybe you would like to share a little link to some of your comic artwork?

There has already been a confirmed case of sockpuppetting by vilters, detected from the usage of the term "pollution". Kurmudgenou2K54 prose is very broken, almost like it was done on purpose. genou means knee in french and vilters is IIRC belgian. The 54 looks suspiciously like 1954, i.e. 61 years ago, a reasonable age for being retired from the armed forces. * puts down his KGB ushanka *.

 and learn your grammar shit for brains

And you learn that you can write more than one sentence per post. See? it works! mindboggling, isn't it?

To handle the case of bulging biceps automatically you need at least implicit skinning. The final step are muscolosketal simulations; to get an idea of what can be done, a video about WETA tissue simulation https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7VlthWa5pu8

This post text is wrecked by the so called editor.

Just to show that JCM are not a DAZ conspiracy against human kind, a 3 years old video of JCM creation in zBrush and Modo.

And Vilters, please pick an account you want to use when you post. Or at least use different phrasing (ie pollution) when you post.

There is a more damning evidence: go to "LouisCross" posts history and there is a post showing Vilters face-that-only-mom-can-love figure.

Morph 3D, DAZ gaming sister company. Check what they are offering (hint: it is not a mere half-working decimator/FBX exporter).

A big thumb up for JoePublic.