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Today, Renderosity announced that it has acquired Poser from Smithmicro! I always thought Smithmicro was planning to rid itself of the troublesome software. But what does the future hold for Poser and the half million devotées who use it? Has Renderosity any experience with software development? Was Smithmicro ready to abandon Poser if no buyer wanted to acquire it? Is that why Renderosity took up the challenge? And is Renderosity lining up to go head to head with DAZ3D? It was my impression that Renderosity's vendors produced as many or more products for Poser than for DAZ Studio; and Renderosity will certainly do nothing to discourage that in the future.   But has Genesis too much of a lead for Poser to catch up? A lot of Poser users switched to DAZ Studio in the last few years; can Renderosity lure them back?
Sounds like a soap opera, doesn't it?

Edited by user Thursday, June 20, 2019 4:14:23 PM(UTC)  | Reason: Not specified

Interesting   I guess we can all assume that Content Paradise will soon be toast as renderosity will do it's best to eliminate the internal link ASAP

I doubt that any software developers jump ship from smith micros unless SM was planning on letting them go  I will tell you one thing  I sure would not hire them based on thier shitty performance to create a base figure that would look nice and natuaral 

Best of luck to Renderosity  they are now more than just a thorn in DAZ's behind 

Regards   Shadoman

Originally Posted by: shadoman

Interesting   I guess we can all assume that Content Paradise will soon be toast as renderosity will do it's best to eliminate the internal link ASAP

I'm betting that products from Content Paradise will start showing up at Renderosity. And I do wonder what's going to happen to the Poser forum at the Smith Micro web site. Some bright minds posted many thoughtful comments there. Is Renderosity going to incorporate that at their site?

Originally Posted by: SnarltheWerewolf

They said on the thread at Rendo that they have no intention of dropping Daz support. I would imagine the Daz market is much bigger and spend more $ than the Poser market (basing that on Daz vendors own comments about dropping poser support because there was not an increase in sales when they provide poser support on products).

I also don't think they'll drop it as Rendo does a decent business being a dumping ground for Daz products that Daz rejects from its vendors (that's been told to me by a couple of vendors)

They say a lot of things, I'm more concerned on what they will do,  the same was said when the Content Paradise products were merged into their catalog, but the "new products" page was FLOODED for days and days with 10+ year old content, and they also added products in mass so it kind of hurt vendors releasing new products there.

In a way they HAVE to make sure Poser stuff get's "top billing" so to speak just to try and recoup on their investment into Poser, so really only time will tell.

Oh.. and as for them being a "dumping ground for daz reject products"  that is NOT the case, granted SOME vendors might do this,  but I know many vendors there who just refuse to sell at Daz, so they sell at Renderosity, here, and other marketplaces.

I think the reality was Rendo bought Poser to keep it from disappearing. The Portugal location (where the poser development was) was already hiring mobile engineers last week (via LinkedIN), so there was probably layoffs of the Poser developers. And the users on the SM Poser forum was unceremoniously locked out of posting this morning. I wouldn't put more into this than keeping the program around for the people still using the program. SM was in the process of offloading Poser because it's been a dead weight for a while, compared to other graphics apps like Moho (which hasn't been sold). Rendo probably got a bargain on the program to buy it.

From what I heard, the code for poser is a mess and a good chunk of the docs are in german. I doubt there would be many improvements from Rendo since they aren't a dedicated graphics software shop. If the Portugal group, that was dedicated to Poser, couldn't come up with nothing more than a few patches in the few years they had control of the code, what does a group specializing in web store fronts going to do with a 3D app?

That announcement was low key since if you look at the hot list, it's DAZ products being sold, not Poser. If they want their shop to close really quick, they'll stop selling the DAZ stuff and start pushing the inferior poser products, with those horrid promos. So I don't see ANY of the DAZ only vendors going anywhere; they're keeping the store funded. It's probably a wait and see situation to see if they can do anything with the code before promising anything. If they are able to do anything with the code, the should probably look at making it work with current standards (weightmapping for example) so they can get those DAZ figures imported without using DSON.  I don't even see any poser native figures being supported here to think rendo buying poser will shift that balance. 

Originally Posted by: Zaavaleta

. Like others have pointed out the code for that program has changed hands at least 3 times so far and the documentation is probably a mess.

The company changed hands, but the developers have always been the same, except when they were fired and the programmers from Portugal was brought in. 

Originally Posted by: SnarltheWerewolf

I would imagine they feel like they invested a lot with La Femme trying to make an original base character. They were already selling all of SM's old figures and props, might as well just own Poser. I feel like it stands a better chance as far as support goes with Rendo than SM. And as you pointed out they do have more new Poser content than anyone.

Interesting, and promising, new wrinkle for Poser users. I hope that Rendo doesn't end up being a Poser only shop. I've always enjoyed having a second option to buy daz items, not to mention a lot of Daz vendors sell the items that Daz rejects at Rendo.

Absolutely. Reducing the marketplace is never ultimately of benefit for consumers.