Let's face it: with this lockdown seeing the real possibility of extending until the fall, vendors are definitely going to see sales drop like a very heavy stone as more and more people are out of work and cannot spend discretionary income like they once had.

As such, some of you might want to reconsider your adamancy of sticking to one platform or the other for your products. Yes, Poser dynamic cloth and DAZ's equivalent wont move easily from one to the other, but static props? Even if it's just exporting out of DAZ using the software's Poser conversion tools with only basic textures, at least you're guaranteed some sales in that second platform, and all it takes is a few minutes' export time. The same can be said for going from Poser to Studio, with minor tweaks to the texture files... something a lot of vendors used to do, I might add.

And yes, the conversion result wont be as glossy or brilliant as the original, so price it accordingly. If your Studio version has a whole bunch of iRay bells and whistles, and your Poser conversion is pretty basic by comparison (and therefore doesnt render quite as well), then price it accordingly. The community is resourceful: it can find ways of glossing up your product, trust me. If you build in Vue, create an exported .obj version as well and sell that alongside your Vue-only original.

The more or less bottom line: we dont have the luxury anymore of saying something should be just one thing or the other. The market share on all this is gonna narrow down the longer this goes on. But to say "Oh, it takes weeks to remake the textures!" becomes moot when all you need to do is just put a lesser-than-fab version out there for the "other side" to purchase.

Just a thought. Have a good day, and stay safe, everyone.

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