odf opened this issue on Oct 27, 2008 · 13981 posts
odf posted Sat, 20 June 2009 at 8:46 AM
Quote - > Quote - Actually, if one were interested in the D|S Figure Setup Tools and had yet to buy them, but they weren't going to go with D|S3 for now, I'm pretty sure (99%) that both the D|S2 and D|S3 versions would be available in their available downloads page.
It boils down to poverty, I don't really have any money to experiment on software unless it's absolutely required (very hard for me to justify any kind of purchases now).
In that case, I think it really depends on whether you need to make any JCMs from scratch. As far as I know, DAZ's MorphLoaderPro is the only tool that can generate accurate JCMs for Poser directly from the posed and sculpted figure. I think that's a potential quality leap for everyone who creates primary figures.
Everything else the setup tools provide you can probably do quite well in Poser or with external tools if you have to, just maybe not as easily or conveniently. For example, it's quite nice to be able to create an ERC by dragging and dropping, but if you know how, you can just as well do it in a conventional CR2 editor.
-- I'm not mad at you, just Westphalian.