WHY?

I have decided that I will n olonger provide freebies or marketplace items for Poser at this time.

My hobby for the last 40 years has been 3D graphics, and Poser for 20 years, and will continue.

Several years ago, I saw a decline in support for the characters that I primarily use (LF1/LH1), so I began to work on using content that I owned to find ways to convert them to the figures that I use.

I have had texture Transformer packages for V4 and M4 for over 4 years.

I have created fitting room morphs for D3, M3, V3, M4and V4 which gives me access to a large collection for clothes.. I recently started creating Base Items to be used in the same way the MFD was used,

I am no longer dependent on there being a marketplace where I can buy content, and most of my purchases in the last year have been Merchant Resource items .

Why not LF2/LH2?

They seem to be competent figures, but lack of support and more importantly lack of poses.

They are the first POSER NATIVE figures that can not use the legacy pose.

Texture wise, they can use LFH2 textures except for eyes, but without at lease a start at a pose they can be a PITA.

The user base

Mostly disengaged. Most popular thread seems to be about an years old figure

The Vendor base

Much smaller after the last 3 years

The owners

Seem to be doing nothing to promote the POSER figures.

Bill

Sad to hear, but completely understandable. I must confess. most of my reluctance to use LF2/LH2 is exactly what you say. No support from the owner of the program and lackluster support from vendors. Despite the fact that they've been out for years, there is very little variety in available skins, morphs, poses and clothing. And, with removing the Cloth Room and putting in a substitute with no documentation of user-friendly Interface, Poser's owner simply killed those figures as most of the available clothing was, you guessed, Cloth Room dynamic.

(also less face it the male figures were already undersupported)

With that said, you will be missed and I hope you at least will stick around for the hobby.

Sorry to hear, Bill.  Your frustration is understandable. =(

Molly

Well, I did try to support LH2 even if  Indirectly, All of my freebie characters will work with LH2, except for the eyes.  Not the morphs of course.

My marketplace M4 to LH1 with the free LH1 to LH3 should give him some close.  I only did them because LH2 had so little support.

The poses were the killer for me.  Having to set up a new pose for every render instead of using Poser 106 and G2 Poses  makes LH1 easy to work with.

t is not a lack of shoes/Clothes or skins or hair, I have conversions of all of those, but willl not release for LF2.

The Market Place for charactres is all DAZ so I figure Rendo will go the way of content Paradise, RDNA etc.

As a last resort, I still have PP2014  (they killed game dev)

Bill