Quote - > Quote - > Quote - I don't understand the idea that XD is difficult and time consuming to use.  I've never had it take over a few minutes to convert something.  Yes, posing can be touchy at times, but I get around that by making the body part that pokes or poses wrong invisible.

Which ver are you using? The early ones were kind of sucky.

I'm using XD4.  And yes, an earlier version was somewhat twitchy, but no problems with this one.  Not even using a major name computer, just an off the shelf eMachine from WalMart.

Is that so.... Do you know if the figure files from Ver2 will work with XD4 or will I have to repurchase them?

Quote - I don't understand the idea that XD is difficult and time consuming to use.  I've never had it take over a few minutes to convert something.  Yes, posing can be touchy at times, but I get around that by making the body part that pokes or poses wrong invisible.

Which ver are you using? The early ones were kind of sucky.

I tried those programs in the past and found them to be anoying and time consuming with results that never really worked fully (especially posing after converting). Those were ver2 - they would have to improved ALOT for me to try them again.

Again - Thanks for the responces

The CPU I'm using is an i7 920 2.67 Gz

I also forgot to mention that the render setting is set to max for seeing what some textures would look like prior to putting a character into a scene.

So maybe I'm getting a bit impatient.

Thanks for the replies so far.

Thanks for the feedback - Is there a manual for EZSkin?

I've kept mine from the days of AOL dial up where I tried a number of combinations and my "handle" had the lowest number atachment available - at least my first name isn't John. 

The coolest one (depending on your 1960's Brit TV knowledge) I've seen was one of my university classmates - "I_am_not_a_number".

As to a Renderosity version of this servey - either they or someone else will have to do it since I've had my turn at the front line.

That's quite possible - I did get some feedback about being locked out of the survey even through they hadn't taken it

"Block duplicate responses using IP address  - Users in the same network/office/campus may be blocked" is the setting I used to ensure there would not be any multiple entries from a single point.

Quote - I don't know how many people stuffed the ballot box on one side or the other, 

For the love of ......

OK this is THE LAST TIME I WILL SAY THIS UNTIL I PROBABLY HAVE TO SAY IT AGAIN IF THIS GOES PAST 4 MORE PAGES OF COMMENTS

Unless someone had multiple ISPs or went through the trouble to change it every time they took the survey (very unlikely with 220 respondants) they were LOCKED OUT of the survey once completed. This means that even if you used a different id on your computer or even a different computer in the same network you would have been denied re-entry according to the recorded ISP address.

Also just a few reminders -

Notice of the survey was placed in several locations.

The results were NOT made available until now so that the choices did not bias other respondants.

Respondants were allowed to answer the survey once and then they were locked out.

Respondants had to answer all the questions.

This survey was mostly to satisfy my curiosity because I was getting tired of sorting through the post which were made by relatively few people

I wanted to give people who didn't want to leave a post an opportunity to have some input to the issue at hand.

AND MOST IMPORTANTLY this was called an unofficial and unsupported survey because I wanted to make it VERY CLEAR that I did NOT REPRESENT Daz3D in any way.

So that's it - take it for what it's worth to you. I will now duck and cover.

Quote - Thanks for doing this, it would interesting to see what happen if this was run again for both Rendo and Independant stores. Would there be any major differences in areas such as satisfaction level?

Go for it! It will be a while until I do another one myself though - I got enough flack over this one.

The site I used was:

http://www.kwiksurveys.com/

Free site with a lot of survey style options and no limits

Quote - Two biases:

1 - the people who like DAZ surely flocked to fill this survey while people like me didn't even bother to go there;

2 - as I wrote when the survey was announced, with such surveys there is not way to prevent determined people to stuff the ballot.

Even with these biases, the picture these pictures draw is "interesting".

Well, unless someone went through the effort to mask or change their ISP they wouldn't have been able AND if the ballots were stuffed wouldn't the results have favored Daz - especially for questions 7, 8 & 9?

I just posted the results at Daz as well - as for staying clean Scotch Guard gives no guarentees in this case (but I give it one, maybe two pages).

Sorry I took so long to post the results. I origingally said I would post them just after New Years. Unfortunately we had a bout of the flu just after and this is the earliest I've been able to catch up.

OK so there you go.  As I mentioned of the people who read the thread, 220 answered the questionare by the deadline (I was hoping for at least 200). I posted a link to the survey at RNDA, Renderosity Poser and Studio forums, and the Daz General Community forum to keep it as balanced as poss.

As you can see quite alot of people have a fair bit of content from Daz and spend a considerable portion of thier budget there as well (as seen in question 3 & 4).

I asked people to rank the importance of the content at the Daz Store which when plotted was a bit much so I charted the #1 ranks of which figures and Morphs had a huge lead of 41% - this could explain why alot of people are just a bit ticked off about the V5 and Genesis issues Which seems to be reflected in question 7& 8.

Question 7 & 8 asked what was the level of satisfaction with the content of the Daz3D store PRIOR (Blue) and AFTER (Red) the release of the Genesis system. As you can see there was a very high level of satisfaction prior with most giving a 7-10 star rating.  After the release of Genesis the satisfaction level dived with the majority giving a 5 star or less.

The other interesting comparision is questions 1 and 9.  While the majority of respondants were platinum members - it was a dead heat between the Yes and No camps all the way there was never more than 5 votes between them.  The deciding factor is the wait and see group. Regardless - if the numbers stay the same Daz may start taking a big hit financially soon which can be seen in the results of question 6 where 42% of the respondants said their purchases have gone down and 17% have stopped all together.

So was there any point to this? Maybe. As I said at the start I was getting tired of waiding through the posts to get an idea of what people thought of the actions Daz3D has taken.

What do you think?