Richard60 posted at 8:56PM Tue, 17 November 2020 - #4403556

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.

Man I don't even know where to start tearing your utter wall of BS down at...so many wrongness points here. Were I one to enjoy the tearing, I'd be salivating. First of all if you even knew half of what you were talking about you'd know that DAZ figures contain multiple combines of their structure representing "levels" of subdivided versions. In other words you have a base and a "SubD" version which can be shifted using DSON input. They don't need a "mini-Studio" because you can't import with DSON unless Studio is installed on your computer. Where do you think you're importing or transferring a DAZ file from if not the Studio runtime? (Sighs and face palms himself!) And if you know what you're doing (which you clearly indicate you don't--) you can have all of Gen3+8 has to offer with only the loss of very minimal features. The weightmapping is converted in DAZ before setting up an export file to be used by DSON. So again, me smart...maybe you're not. I get really annoyed when people talk smack and don't even know what they're smacking. I apologize if my tone seems annoyed. That's probably because it is.