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Useful information. It was easier than I expected. Debugging was not necessary, everything works with latest 64 bit daz so far. But since Richard is swearing on his mother's grave that dse in uncrackable, let's cooperate and do not make any decryptors available online.

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I would like to enter this discussion with the same question again.
It is not that I care but I just don't understand what is the point of that and what poster is trying to achieve by posting something with a delay.

I see this thread turned into some kind of argument but the original question was left unanswered.

I see some speculations that you may get the link by bribing the poster but in that case i think this should be more straightforward, like adding a button to contact the poster for this post. Or at least some suggestion what you are supposed to do when you encounter delayed post.

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@Hamburgler

For assets, I hear getting a SSD drive helps alot. Too bad you can’t get one above 2tb.

It does not help that much although keeping morphs on SSD may be good idea.

anyway as I know you can split content directory into diffrent forlder and drives daz will use it all.

also if you need bigger drive make raid array of your ssd drives

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This is just funny: Announcing new major version and the only new feature advertised is Broken compatibility for old content and this broken thing working on MAC. As at this time there are any mac users left LOL
As I remember Daz stopped working on mac when apple moved to arm CPU and they promised to port it to arm eventually so version 5 is that same port to Mac with no new stuff.

The only difference I can see is that Daz moved from qt4 to qt5, But there is no hope that any interesting features will be added. probably next few years will be spent just chasing bugs.

As usual developers keep total secrecy about everything they are doing and ignoring all user requests.

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@Ethiopia
I wonder if they have any other programmer at all besides Richard who seem to be spending more time reading every post on the forum than actual coding.

To move forwards daz should go open source and allow users to tinker with extra functionality as well as stopping to squeeze every bit of extra cash from everything.

Every new daz version has totally random and strange features implemented but there is not even any discussion on the forum of what users want and every time anyone post any feature requests or suggestion richard immediately tells to send feature request ticket (which will be ignored) and shut up.

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Since you don't know if the link is alive and when it died the fact if you waited or not to get it does not matter.
It is just that you try to download something and it does not work.

It was quite uncommon experience for me on this site, and if it happens the same item can be downloaded elsewhere most of the time.

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@Legolas18

There is no doubt that there are many things to improve even with current DAZ software.
but those things could be done at the genesis 2 or 3 already
The only thing what DAZ developers are doing is trying to cripple their base figures as much as possible to sell more addons.
currently their business model is to make figure polygon count to resemble "Mario version 1" and then sell HD morph addons so they will definitely not do anything useful in genesis 9 besides maybe slashing polygon count even more to make sculpting totally impossible
Genesis 8 is already not any better than genesis 1/V4 it has no improvements that could not just be backported to G1

Daz studio is actually pretty well designed all those "bugs" are special features designed for licensing purposes and this is why they will not be fixed ever.

The reason why I am curious of what they will do with G9 is because to release G9 they have co come up with something that once again breaks compatibility with every previous figure and present it as some kind of improvement.

They could once again change mesh, UV maps or default pose, but how to convince everyone that this change somehow improves quality? Also as noted before needs release must be even more cripled than current one in terms of geometry detai.
Everything else can be released as simple addon to existing figure and it will heavily contradict with their business model.

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@KefkaI I sort of of disagree that 8.1 is cash grab
because everything released by daz is cash grab.
the basic principle of daz company is to release something supposedly new which has no real changes but just breaks compatibility with older content and then cash on content creators remaking everything for that new figure

genesi 8 already was absolutely pointless update and genesis 8.1 is in essence even offensive content which has no purpose at all but to break compatibility.

For those who believe that it improves eyes or expressions
all genesis 8.1 updates are applicable to genesis 8 you can apply eye enhancement to genesis 8
and also expression control can be applied to genesi 8 and even genesis 3
even 8.1 texture can be used on genesis 8 but the main problem with 8.1 textures is that they will eat big chunk of extra GPU memory and offer no improvements. (unless you have bald head fetish and render closeups of foreheads.)

There is a fix to restore full compatibility with generis 8 expressions.

All those skin enhancements are pure lie because you can turn PBR for any model
The biggest surprise for me is that so many people are actually following that marketing nonsense.

I am super curious what DAZ will offer for genesis 9 as there is just nothing to add and nothing to advertise even when counting totally bogus promises of nonexistent quality improvements.

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