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Well advertisers typically use celebrities to garner initial interest but most people are hestitant to try new clothing or hair styles even with those celebrities hawking them. Maybe future versions of DAZ will help people try new clothing styles and hair styles they wouldn't have tried virtually first. That's not to say advertisers won't still use celebrities, they will. Personally though, I still have the same part on the left side of a short tapered men's cut that I've had since before I could walk. I think the only nerdier cut is a Mo bowl cut. :-)
The tech industry is built on upgrades and change. It's how they make their money. Version 7 has to be better than version 6 just because the number is higher. Sometimes this is true, sometime it's just marketing hype. The public seems to accept it though. You may not want to rebuy a wardrobe for a new figure but that's how Daz makes its money. That's why Adobe went subscription. There were a bunch of socialist malcontents still using CS3. It was good enough. Any new users will get the new version though, by subscription, whether they want it or not. After 25 years of computing I'm still surprised at the new stuff in new software versions. Sometimes it's awesome, sometimes it's just different, or even retro. Like MacOS going from flat icons to 3d icons and back to flat icons.
Studio 5 is around the corner. A major upgrade will require (perceived) major improvements. A fresh new Vicky would fit the bill and it will have some "thing" that makes it "better". You may resist but she'll be "so pretty". The old heads may continue to use G2F, new users won't want to touch her with a 10 ft pole. It always changes. Get used to it.
All probably true. That said, I'd be perfectly happy to not see V8 (which to me is a vegetable juice drink) for another 3-5 years.
And, actually, given that the sales model appears to be to invent attractive, althoughnot necessarily needed new character bases as a device to get people to buy bundles of other DAZ O product, I suspect that we'll probably get V8 when the sales start showing that ther market doesn't feel like it *needs* random female character #14-18.
While DS5 might well include new figures if it includes new technology for them to exploit that isn'r necessarily true - nor is there any indication that 5.0.0.0 is just around the corner, as you say (the version numbers are integers separated by full stops so 4.10, 4.11 etc. are quite possible).
When the full body life size latex rubber 3D printers arrive and motorised skeleton kits, along with the 3D fabric sewing machines.
actually damnit I want to print my DAZ clothes with morphs to fit now.
Hehe, I caught that with the bottle shape and flavor reference :) Hence my reply hinting towards the old V8 comercials from when I was a kid :)
3D fabric sewing machines... how is that different from a normal sewing machine? :)
You just feed the fabric in off the roll and it does the rest?
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More relaistic bends, and better IK; although IK not specifically a model problem.
Even allowing for my stash, my machine and fabric takes up less room. And may even require less finishing work... :p
Wonderful idea though.
Of course when Victoria 12 with 'AI based intelligent morphing and posing' declares herself our new virtual overlord and replaces humanity with 3d printed clones of herself, we'll all feel pretty silly.
But we'll all be young and pretty!
http://www.sciencealert.com/new-3d-printer-produces-first-ever-life-sized-ear-muscle-and-bone-tissues-from-living-cells
I have this lingering fear that she'd replace me with something that looks like Cory 6. (I'll give the artist who made him credit, it's not easy to get a guy to look right in the kind of stylized that Callie has, male features seem to go either goofy looking or something that could pass for an Anime style which I'm guessing they were trying to avoid.)
Yeah, that really threw me with Mac OS 10 10.10 or whatever. I'll have to keep that in mind. Also Daz is one of the few software vendors that doesn't upgrade by whole numbers, or skip a number just for the heck of it.
On topic - I'm hoping that Genesis 4, when it comes, is better at handling backward compatablility than Genesis 3. While I get that DAZ (and the PA's) make money by making us buy everything over again... quite often that's not actually what happens. Well, it is, but only with a handful of styles of things (mostly certain types of characters, swimwear, sleepwear). Most everything else doesn't get revisited either because it didn't sell well enough the first time, or the original artist doesn't want to revisit that particular thing, and other artists are concerned (rightly or wrongly) about being accused of plagerisim if they do something similar. All of which are perfectly valid reasons to move on to something else. However, that leaves certain characters "stuck" on older figures, clothing can only handle so many iterations of autofit (depending on the outfit, sometimes not even 1) before it breaks, and parenting hair doesn't always work for certain morphs. (and LAMH needs to be redesigned for the new figure anyway)
I haven't moved to Genesis 3 because at the moment, investing further in Genesis 2 has greater value to me than investing in the same basic Genesis 3 stuff all over again. When Genesis 4/Victoria 8 arrives, how much I invest in it will greatly depend on how much of what I have that probably *won't* be re-made for Genesis 4 I can use with it.
...and Aiko7 when?
To answer the OP; not long enough.
Anyone who thinks it will be unencrypted is fooling themselves; although we can hope, but...
Well, presumably DRM will be written off as a failure before V8 comes out.
I feel Daz needs to be careful about releasing Genesis 4. We already saw some push back and consumer fatigue when Gen3 was released. Gen2 barely had it's training wheels off, and suddenly we were being asked to buy everything all over again for the third Genesis figure. Three generations of Genesis hard on each others' heels is a lot to ask consumers to support. Especially when you have things like new UV's that break elements of backwards compatibility.
I realize Daz is a business and is here to make money, but I hope they give Gen3 a little extra time to mature. Give customers a chance to settle into their investment before asking them to rebuy everything all over again for the umpteenth time.
There are two problems with the Gen2 -> Gen3 thing... the first is timing, and the second is incompatibility.
Either factor, alone, would have been difficult but not so bad. The combination compounds the problem.
Another issue, for me, is that given the clever ways people are coming up with ways to adapt UV maps across figures... I'm thinking 'why didn't Daz work hard at doing something like this?' You'd think that if you were about to break with a 15 year tradition of compatibility across figures that it'd behoove them to find some way to deal with it from day 1.
Ah well. Again, it doesn't bug me TOO much because they are, ultimately, the ones to suffer from people not buying their stuff.
Biggest upgrade I'd like to see is fine body hair. Even skin that isn't "hairy" still generally has a thin layer of fine hair covering it. Most of the time it isn't noticed, but sometimes it catches the light. Having everybody's arms completely shaved throws things off to me. I suppose it could be added to an exisiting model, but it seems like a big enough change that it could be on a V8 revision.
Cool. Here is another explaining things ....
I do think DAZ didn't even try to use the full potential on G2 and V6 etc. They don't have to look like plastic dolls. They really can look like people, even V4/M4 can.
You may not identify this girl as V6, but V6 she is, dialed-in some morphs, no sculpting or other such sophisticated things, which I still don't have mastery of, that was during the first weeks I tried to learn working with DAZ. She's no beauty, but she isn't a plastic doll, either.
If you go and look over at rendo, you will find a product for G3F that tackles exactly this issue. It was a very popular product that stayed near the top of their What's Hot list for some time.
Actually, we'll be able to shop online for the dress kit we like then we can 3D print the outfit to our own personal specs.
Better hair. You can have the most amazing looking character dialed in, but the obvious polygons in the hair mesh just break the whole thing. Skin has made some nice jumps, but hair should be a prioity for rendering humans next gen. Hair on skin is just painted on textures, with rare exception. Genesis 4 figures optimized for Nvidia Hairworks for Iray?
Well, I will stop at G3F and V7, have spent enough money
Thanks, just tracked this down, now to wait for a sale.
Well we can only hope it will not take that long for version 5, as iclone's 2016 year is very promising and will take more users from poser/daz world away.