@jimros

I agree with you on that point 100%.
That's why we need to create things for her ecosystem our self's.
Since most of the former Poser Content Creators have left the Poser Community for the more lucrative Marketplace Daz Studio we have to do it on our own.
I already started the new thread I mentioned in my first reply to you.
If you are interested, consider joining the conversation over there.
As I wrote, drop a list of your most needed things.
I can't promise wonders, but at least we have a base line from which we can start to make things happen.

Thanks again to all you people commenting here. I have to admit that this thing is not going as I thought it would, but I like the way it turned out quite a lot!

"Look at the front page of the Daz Store....."

Exactly my point!

If you look at those promo pictures you feel the urge to use this stuff...and buy it! That's how marketing works. And Daz is really good at that. We should take that opportunity and learn from them. IRay is in no way superior to Superfly. To the contrary, because the base of Superfly is cycle's, the free and open source render engine of Blender. That means, whatever Blender foundation decides to do with Cycles, it doesn't affect Poser in the slightest. The opposite is true for IRay. If Nvidia decides to pull the plug on its development, Daz Studio is in serious trouble.

To the topic of the LaFemme/LHomme figure: I see the point made by one of the commentators that those figures are too stylized, too much LaFemme so to speak. That means we need one or two base meshes with a reasonable rig and proper weight mapping. From that point on, morphs can easily be made and injected, clothing can be made fit for any variants of the figures base meshes, which means less trouble with poke throughs and less work on the clothing item itself. Is that correct so far? As far as I remember, the Genesis Platform began as a single mesh that could be morphed into both sexes and any other type of bipedal creature. They changed this approach later and went on with two base meshes, one female and one male. Is there any technical reasoning behind this, or was it a marketing decision to force the users to buy an clothing item twice?

If one would like to create a new base mesh, which base pose would you prefer in order to create morphs and clothing for it? The classic T-Pose or the more recent A-Pose?

@DeeceyArt

Thanks for your honest opinion on this topic.
You, as a long-time contributor to Poser, are extremely valuable to this topic.
I'm sure you have to publish content to pay bills and so on.
I don't want to push anyone to produce stuff from their own pocket money.
I'm just asking you to share your expertise with us.
You say the Genesis figure is superior in terms of realism.
Would you say this is because of better geometry or rigging?
Does the way Daz handles textures make the difference?
By characters, I assume you mean whole sets of textures, body morphs, makeup, bump and displacement mapping presets, SSS material settings, right?
Would be interesting to hear your opinion on these questions.
As I wrote above, it's all about information and anything helps, no matter how insignificant it may seem.

@RedPhantom

Just to fix some loose ends of this conversation, I followed your advice and created some nice morphs for her tongue.
And I had to created them as full-body-morphs, because the tongue is made of 5 geometry parts.
I will package the morphs and upload them here on Renderosity in the freestuff section in a couple of days.

@jimros

Would you explain to me what do you mean by the notion that LaFemme is the Poser killer?
What's wrong with her?
I have made some free stuff for her, you can find here on Renderosity, including morphs.
She is a nice piece of geometry and it has been fun to work with.
I agree with you that we lack modern content for Poser.
As long as we complain and wait for Daz to do us a favor, the future of Poser is to migrate to Daz.
I'm 58 years old now and I spend almost 20 years with Poser.
I don't want to use Daz Studio, I tried and I didn't like the way it works, looks and feels.
So, seems to me that we have to build our own world in Poser, so to speak. 
You know what? The more I think about it, I will open a new thread to create a sort of wish-list of content we need in Poser.
Maybe you could do a list of things you want to use in Poser and I pick a thing or two, maybe someone else will do it too?
What do you think?

@redphantom, thanks for pointing this method out to me.
Works like a charme.

Thank's for helping me out.
I will follow the advise and keep you posted for the results.

Greetings from Germany

I would like to have a function in the library search that leads you back to the position in the column were you picked the folder and opened it, instead of always being pushed to the top of the folder column and have to scroll all the way down again. Searching the Library by pressing a letter would also be a nice thing to have.

Could you post a picture of the preview?
Did you build the head piece on your own or did you downloaded it somewhere?
Same with the hair issue.
A screen shot would be helpful.

@EVagas

Thanks, not what I wanted to hear, but better save then sorry.

@hborre
I have done the testing with a Sasha V4 and it does not work.
As you can see on picture 1 the morph is similar to what Rorschach did.
In picture 2 you can see the reapplied morph. It only creates a spike at the stomac, the chest area is not altered.

I can confirm that problem.
I re-created the morph, exported it into my main library, deleted the V4.2, loaded her again.
The morph from the library is getting loaded, the dial shows up, but it's not working at all.

I had the same outcome on one of my lingerie pieces. As far as I understand it, the problem is that the mesh is to small for Poser to calculate it as intended. I solved this by using a texture map and a transparency map on a mesh with more geometry and broader strings. This method unfortunately only works for clothing items you created yourself.

@Shvrdavid

I agree with you on Linux being a niche market. Since I have asked both sides what it would take to find a way to make Linux more popular and Windows programs running on Linux without the whole jumping through loops until the cows come home, I'm standing in the middle of it being told from both sides the other one is responsible to make it happen. It's a bit frustrating. The good news is, the open source committee is not a monolithic block, there are always people who just do whatever they want to do. Chances are someone is just working on it.

But thanks for all the good advice and thoughtful inside. Always nice to have this community.

@y-phil

Thank for the advice. That's pretty much what I thought too. One followup question if I may, if I cut the internet connection to my PC, what will happen if I try to enter Poser?

As far as I know Poser wants to phone home to validate the serial number, right? Will I get locked out of Poser in a given time frame?

Yes to the first part of your reply. I have installed Poser 13 successfully on Linux Mint Cinnamon with the latest version of wine. Everything works perfectly fine, even the Firefly render engine does which was not functional in Poser 12.

The only downside is the dependency on CPU rendering only, because wine isn't able to pass the GPU through. That is the one thing that keeps me on Windows, like at all. Since the rest of the software I use is already Linux native, like Krita, Gimp and Blender, there is not much left to stay with Windows.