Forum: Poser 12 - Feature Requests


Subject: I HAVE to say this, cannot sit on it any longer.

McGrandpa opened this issue on Sep 06, 2020 ยท 91 posts


Richard60 posted Thu, 05 November 2020 at 8:14 PM

Let's see if this will help some of you understand the problem with converting DSON

DAZ owns DAZ Studio and the copyrights to that program. Which means they own how the program works.

When Poser 9 came out it lacked one thing that Genesis needs in order to be usable. And that thing is Sub-Division. Poser 9 cannot Sub-Divide a figure.

However when DAZ first released the DSON plug -in for Poser all of a sudden Poser 9 Could Sub-Divide (but only the Genesis figure). Anybody want to take a guess as to why this was now possible? The answer is that the DSON plug-in contains a mini-version of DAZ Studio. Poser is used to send dial commands to the mini-Studio and that program then takes the Genesis mesh and creates a mesh that Poser then displays.

And there is the problem NOBODY but DAZ can write the code for Studio since they own the copyright. Without that code all the neat things you think Genesis can do, it can't. Basically it is fairly simple to write a converter program to take the DAZ files and return them back to OBJ where they came from. The problem is that it is a static OBJ with none of the Bells and Whistles you want it to have.. It is even possible to try and convert the Weight maps, although that can be hard as it will be a best guess and the results will be close at best. However the fancy things like Auto-Fit won't make it. And it is things like this that you want and won't have.

Poser 5, 6, 7, 8, Poser Pro 9 (2012), 10 (2014), 11, 12, 13, 14