Hi DestinyGarden.

I didn't say "former" employee.

Here is the timeline.

• In 2009 I start development of Reality. At that time not only there was no program connecting Poser or DAZ Studio to LuxRender or any other PBR, there was not even any talk about PBR in the Poser/Studio world. I introduced the idea to this market.
• August 2010, Pret-a-3D, my company, which has a website, email and contact information, in other words a legitimate company, releases Reality 1.0 for DAZ Studio. Physically-Based Rendering is added to DAZ Studio for the first time and the community learns about this possibility.
• For more than two years Prêt-à-3D and DAZ work together. In that period a certain person was the liaison between the two companies.
• In Q1 2012 I close my store at DAZ and move to Renderosity
• In April 2013 I release Reality for Poser.
• In July 2013 the same person who was my contact in DAZ releases Luxus. A rip-off of my idea of connecting DAZ Studio to LuxRender. Not only the concept is plagiarized from my idea which he witnessed for the first time when I submitted Reality to the DAZ Store, but it is positioned and advertised against Reality, showing the clear reference point.

So, yes, I do have the right to call it a rip-off, imitation, knock off, and so on, because I had the original idea to bring PBR to Studio and specifically to use LuxRender. That is very specific. And this is particularly because ldgilman said that in his/her mind "Reality was built on top of Luxus". That is adding insult to injury.

If you have iRay today it is because I spent the past five years demonstrating that there is an interest in using PBR systems in this market. In 2009 it was a total gable, there was no market and no indication that this kind of technology would be adapted by the Poserverse. So, not only I promoted the idea but I took all the risk. Sphericlabs did nothing of that. He just look at somebody's else work and wrote a knock off. At least Studio's integrated PBR uses a different renderer. To use the same rendered was simply an act of plagiarism. Some people lead, other copy the ideas of innovators.

BTW, saving the data together with the scene it's something that Reality did since version 1.0.

All the best.

I have, but I cannot comment about future projects.

Thank you for your interest.

Yes, they add support for the new figures but there has been no serious development of other features. The modeler is extremely dated and the overall architecture, internally, is obsolete. The program has received no major updates in a very long time.

Regardless, the installed base is very small and it's not expanding, which makes it simply impractical as a platform for commercial software.

Cheers.

At some point I actually started work on a Carrara version. Unfortunately the fact is that the Carrara market is just too small to sponsor development of any plugin. In addition the program is basically abandoned and so there is no future for it. Sorry, I don't mean to upset anybody, it's just the objective situation. Software e development costs a fortune and if there is no prospect of recovery the costs and then making a living then it's simply not feasible.

I appreciate the support expressed by everybody.

Cheers.

Thank you very much Johnny. I appreciate it.

Thank you DustRider.

Not at all. Reality is the original program that brought PBR (Physically-Based Rendering) to the world of Studio five years ago. It does that by integrating Luxrender into DAZ Studio and Poser. The other plugin mentioned is a rip off of my idea, which was made by one of the DAZ employees after he saw what Reality could do.

Cheers.

Hi. Genesis is not a Poser figure and so the DSON plugin is needed to use it. That is DAZ technology and nothing related to Poser. If improvements can be made they need to come from DAZ, not Smith Micro.

In general, the upgrade of a program, any program, is about 50% of the full package. Considering that you don't get this kind of treatment for any other product in commerce, 50% off, simply because you own a previous license, is quite nice, IMHO.

You can add all your existing content. There is no need to reinstall the 3d assets that you already have.

Having real thickness is always a good idea. For example, Reality has been in use with Poser for years and your model will render much more realistic if it will have thickness.

Cheers.

Thank you very much for opening this forum. I really appreciate all the support that Renderosity and its users are giving to Reality.

Cheers.

That's great news. Congratulations! You might want to make the link to the magazine clickable, to make it easeier for readers to get there.

Cheers.

ACue, you will see a very significant performance jump with Reality in a few days. I never saw Pose Pro at this price and this is a fantasy I opportunity to get Poser at 64 bits. 32 bit computing is just too limiting.

Cheers.

Hi Lyrra.
That is definitely a book that was needed. I have posted about it in our Facebook page ( http://www.facebook.com/RealityPlugIn ).

Good luck with it.