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Same here, I had to upgrade my SSD drive to a 4tb recently. Most of Genesis 9 content is heavy.
@eelgoo
From what I am seeing of Daz, they have lost a lot of costumers, probably mostly due to AI.Just look at their "New User Contests and Events" forums.
https://www.daz3d.com/forums/categories/new-user-contests-and-events
In 2019 they had plenty of people participating to their monthly challenges. Last month (May 2025), only 1 person did, and for June 2025, nobody did (yet).
I suspect, at this point, they are struggling to gain any new customers and are trying to retain the old ones.
I doubt they are going to release a Genesis 10 anytime soon. Even on the Forums, there are 0 threads (that I found) talking / speculating / hoping about G10.
Yes, I think they have certainly hit a hiatus at the least.
( As a corollary, there is no current entry for private or public beta testing for DS4, which is unusual).
I think this is the trap they have fallen into. Dissipating their limited resources in an attempt to be a jack of all trades, rather than focussing on what their product is strongest at.
They are wasting credibility, investment & focus on things that their resources are not good at.TBH although I would like to See G10F & G10M, I am actually quite happy with the 'fully patched' G8 / 8.1 base.
It is G9 that I have run out of patience with. :0/
We like to predict the end of this or that but look at how Poser, despite it's shortcomings and the fact that only two people have ever paid for it, is still a thing. Even Rendo and R'Otica are still alive.
I'm sure Daz will stumble along...somehow. Even if something much better comes along, Studio will become a side note much like Poser.@eelgoo Converting G9 Characters to G8 or G8.1 works well using this tutorial, although you'd have to apply G8 textures to it.
Yeah, I appreciate the input, but you would need to have the G9 stuff installed to do that.
I'm hoping for a script to do it, but I am not holding out much hope now.
No problem for me using G8 textures though.
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I tried to start using genesis 9 several times, but after I updated my PC and tried to collect my mini repacks again, I finally decided to use it too. Now I have 2 packs, genesis 8.1 and genesis 9 separately. I specifically collect only what I like and I use both. Both weigh total a little less than 200 GB
Genesis 9 weighs too much, Genesis 8 and stuff sorrunding it already take way to much space. But genesis 9 is on a whole other level, many models there are easily 500mb-1GB not speaking about assets. I also find most gen 9 model unappealing.
I predict Tafi will dump Daz off to some Norwegian holding company to be shuttered long before a Genesis 10 ever materializes. I have a feeling it's slowly going the way of NFTs and the Metaverse.
Blender is coming into its own, and I think it won't be long until you see unified frontends for it that make it into whatever enterprise app you need, since it already does it all... only these will hide the unnecessary bits from the end user. So Blender will be *just* a video compositor, or *just a modeler, or *just* a media center, all at the flick of a switch.@d1m1trius99
Well put. Agree.I also might add that many Gen 9 models are at the uncanny valley. While Genesis 8.1 I believe is at the sweet spot of being realistic yet not uncanny.
Yes, I agree with that.
Very disappointing, considering G9 was touted for being hyper realistic at the time of its release.:0/
maybe a little off-topic... to all 8.1 fans: whenever I use 'blink' morph (vs G8 upper eyelid open/close) the result is pretty ugly. Any tip??
@1138adrianmartinez
Is this what you're getting?
Problems with Genesis 8.1 blink
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