gwp posted at 9:59AM Mon, 21 June 2021 - #4417846

As a long-time Poser user (almost 20 years!) who has started using Daz Studio simply to be able to use Genesis 3 and Genesis 8 characters natively, i.e. without using complicated procedures to get individual Genesis 3 or 8 characters into Poser, I have to agree with the statement that Poser has the best software and Daz Studio has the best characters and items for them. I find Daz Studio extremely frustrating to work with because to me every step is so much more complicated than in Poser and it is rather difficult to find things in the Daz libraries, but the renders I get with Genesis 8 characters and the Iray render engine are far better than my renders of Poser characters (in Poser 11). I addition, the amount of 3rd party support for Poser characters is far, far less than for Genesis ones and getting worse. My dream - which I fear will never come true - is that Daz and Poser could somehow work together to create either (1) a version of Poser in which Genesis characters work natively, or (2) a version of Daz Studio that uses Poser's interface.

In order to make your dream come true, either Poser or DS would have to become more like the other. DS was once more like Poser, but it diverged in order to make things work the way they wanted it to work. I have no qualms with that. If I really wanted to use Genesis that badly, I'd just use DS. And yes, I've been using Poser since version 2 although, version 1 was still on the market when I found it.