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> I have now
> three more or less incompatible figures (including textures, hair and
cloth props):
> P4 male/female, DAZ Vicky/Micky (not part of the Poser destribution, you
> have to buy them seperately from DAZ3D) and P5 Don/Judy and that does
> not make life much easier.

Yes, that seems to be an unfortunate byproduct of Curious Labs and DAZ3D
falling out with each other. This is really dumb, because P5 with full
support for DAZ Millenium figures would have been just great. Still, we can
expect 3rd parties to jump in and provide ways to make them more compatible,
like the Vicky/Mickey hair which can now be used on P4 models. Note that
I've read that Vicky textures are already compatible with Judy's mapping
(not tested).
>
> The only thing I really appreciate are the new dynamic clothes and the
cloth room.
> I have also worked a little more on the P5 dynamic hair conversion to POV-
> primitives  (this would be one more plus for Poser 5) but in the moment
I'm
> not sure if this it will ever work as expected.

I'm under the impression that hyperealistic hair like this can't be done
with traditional geometries due to the enormous amount of polys that would
be required. What Curious Labs could have in store is a way to export the P5
hair guides to software that support similar hair plugins but us Povers
won't benefit from this.

Another very nice feature of P5, btw, is the setup room which allows to make
posable just about anything. I just turned the Kozaburo hair of the pictures
into a posable figure and it really works fine. I guess this feature was
already in PoserPro.

> And the default cat is also as ugly as ever.

There are talks of new animals, but the Content Paradise feature is still
closed :-( Some of the authors on the P5 credits are specialists of animals
so let's hope.


G.


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