DougW opened this issue on Mar 28, 2000 ยท 32 posts
DougW posted Tue, 28 March 2000 at 2:57 PM
Dear Poser Forum, Product forums are amazingly powerful tools for consumers to discuss their feelings about products either before or after purchasing them. They are also tremendous opportunities for product developers to understand what the consumers want, if they are willing to listen to what is being said on the forums. We at Zygote have always tried to listen to what you have wanted from us. We are still listening to you. Zygote is clearly a capitalistic enterprise that is responsible to its shareholders and employees. We need to earn money to survive. Every model we build for Poser is a business decision right down to the free models that we give away every week (it should be no surprise that we do it with the intention to keep you visiting our site on a regular basis). The Millennium Woman "Victoria" is easily our most costly model that we have ever developed for Poser. We decided to build her at a time when the future of Poser as a product was up in the air. It may not have been the soundest business decision but we wanted to show you that we are still in strong support of the Poser product. Poser will survive and we hope to remain a part of its development directly and indirectly. Your support of us is the only factor in the decision of whether or not we continue Poser development. Thank you for all your support to date. Due to your feedback, we are in the process of developing new morph targets that will offer all of the facial flexibility of the standard P4 woman (including facial and ethnicity morphs) as well as a some body morph targets. We may even throw in a few bonus targets as well. This will be available for a free download with an installer off of our web-site as soon as they are finished. Our decision to build new Poser woman was based on the limitations of the existing P4 woman. One of the greatest improvements of the Victoria model is the added geometry in the face and body. The added geometry will allow users increased flexibility in creating targets that are not capable with the previous Poser Woman. As for the issue of the new woman not conforming to existing clothing, when we were developing her we realized that if we were to change the body and add additional blend zones it would create compatibility issues. It was not an easy decision but we opted to go with the creation of a new nude figure that has better flexibility. We are currently investigating the feasibility of developing an update that will allow the Poser 4 clothing models to conform to the Victoria model. We apologize for using the forum to show this letter. We have always been very cautious about our posts to the list. We have felt that since this is in direct response to your concerns that we should go ahead and post it here anyway. We sincerely appreciate your feedback on the new woman model whether it has been positive or negative. As always, we stand by our products and continue to guarantee satisfaction.Hopefully these efforts will help to maintain the quality level that is expected from Zygote. Thank you, All of us at Zygote