McGrandpa writes, "It is simply this: IF POSER is not given the ability to read and use the DAZ "format", and to be able to USE up through the Genesis 8 Figures, it will simply dwindle into obscurity. "

This seems to be a widely held opinion. Having discussed this a few places, best I can tell, it's not going to happen so....

I was encouraged to discover this model in the free section of the forum yesterday:

https://www.renderosity.com/mod/forumpro/?thread_id=2936022

I'm hardly an expert on such things, but to this Poser newbie this model seems a quality product. It seems professional constructed, everything you need is nicely organized all in one place, installs easily and correctly (even for me!) and is otherwise generally excellent.

If I owned Poser I would hire this artist to create a dozen new characters for the next version of Poser, which to my newbie eyes seems generally superior to all the characters currently shipping with Poser. (La Femme/Homme are perhaps more technically sophisticated?)

Point being, instead of wringing our hands about Daz content, perhaps a better solution is to identify the best artists and put them on the Poser payroll. To the degree Poser depends on Daz it's future will always be uncertain. Seems wiser to forget about Daz and focus on developing Poser characters that the market finds compelling.

Why not just use Daz where the most popular content already exists? Because, imho, Daz software stinks, it's not even close to Poser in terms of user friendliness. Same for the company. I wasted 3-4 month trying to animate in Daz. I accomplished more in the first few days in Poser.

There's no law of nature which prevents Poser characters from being just as good or better than Daz characters. Rendo just needs to find and hire the best artists. Hopefully that project is already underway.