Soon after giving away Daz Studio, Daz3D released Genesis 2. Because Genesis was not a huge improvement over Victoria 4, most Poser people did not bother upgrading. The DSON converter has never worked right, as neither Daz3D or Smith Micro (the makers of Poser) do not have much incentive to get it to work right.

Poser users needed a converter to use Genesis models. It was also the last “Victoria” natively designed to work with Poser.ĭaz3D moved on to a “Genesis” modeling system that was much more flexible than the Poser system, and incorporated it natively in Daz Studio. Extremely versatile, and still the most popular today. Victoria 4 has proven to be a great female model. I made the leap to the superior model, and never looked back. When I started “Something’s In The Air” Victoria 4 had been out for 4 years, and all the latest clothing and accessories were being made for the Victoria 4 and Michael 4 models. I created the first Date Ariane version using Victoria 3, and created and acquired quite a library of Victoria 3 and Michael 3 hair, clothing, and skin textures. Not by design, it is just the nature of the constantly improving technology. Poses, skins, hair, and clothing designed for one model are incompatible with other models. Victoria and Michael were replaced by Victoria 2 and Michael 2 then Victoria 3 and Michael 3, then Victoria 4 and Michael 4.

Clothing and accessories made for Posette would not work on Victoria and Michael. A company called Zygote (now part of Daz3D) came up with the first really great anatomically correct models for Poser called Victoria and Michael. I have been playing with Poser since the “Posette” days which is one of the first female models. One of the stumbling blocks you run into in this hobby is incompatible models. Friendly, because a lot of content could be shared between the programs, and both programs produced some really great images. Both programs have a bit of a learning curve, and once you learn one, you are probably not going to want to learn the other.įor the last 3 years the community has kind of fractured in a friendly rivalry between Poser people, and Daz Studio people. The biggest difference between Daz Studio and Poser is the user interfaces.

Daz Studio can do a lot of what Poser can do, though it has always lagged behind in certain areas, but it was sophisticated enough to give Poser a challenge, and it offered an inexpensive entry point.

Until then, the community primarily consisted of users of Poser software, which is a fairly expensive program to get started on. About 3 years ago the community started getting bigger thanks to Daz3D releasing Daz Studio for free. As someone who does a lot of work in Poser for my games and other projects, that means I am involved in the 3D Rendering community, which I have written about before.

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