What has happened with daz studio? Are they taking their time over finishing it or are they just dragging their butts?

i heard it supposed to be released sometime in november

Beta in November and full release in December I believe.

I heard it was supposed to be released in november...last year!

November 2002? That sounds a little off, I don't think they even announced they were working on it until early summer to early fall of 2002. A few months to make a full blown 3d application is a pretty short window. Doug

Utah!

They originally suggested Summer, but to be fair the list of features in the first release has grown a bit in response to cutomer feedback (AKA lynch mobs).

i would prefer something when they say "yes" we have a working product no matter how long it takes. patches and updates can be so annoying.

Ratteler, where can I find out more on this "Weight mapping"?

Someone explained weight-mapping in a thread around here. There's somethng similar to it in Lightwave. They also covered it in a thread in the Daz forum, but i can't recall which.

weight mapping applies to polygons, points, and their movement. So if you bend a model's elbow or knee, the polys assigned with 100% weight won't move, 75% weight will move a little, 50% will move more, 25% weight will move a lot, 0% weight will move the most (or it might be the reverse of this, but you get the idea). Having polys weighted appropriately will make for much more natural looking joint bends and other more natural looking posing overall. If I remember this right. Don't take this as gospel til you hear from a higher or more knowledgable authority!

It would seem if you could manipulate polys 'n points this way, soft body dynamics wouldn't be too far behind.

"...D|Z could revolutionize character animation..." (sighs and rolls eyes)

I think daz studio will be very good when it comes out and it will be interesting to see how things are done differently from poser. I can`t wait to get a copy that is the reason I said where is daz studio.