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Boris is now visible in my library on Daz3D.com, so you will likely be able to download it.
(1) What will I lose when I unsubscribe from Premiere? I do not belong to Daz+.
(2) Apparently Meshgrabber and Render Queue are now owned by Daz and are available only with a Premiere subscription. Is that correct?
(3) I use both Meshgrabber and Render Queue constantly. Will they now be unavailable to non subscribers?
(4) If I subscribe and use the new mesh grabber then unsubscribe will I lose access to the earlier versions of mesh grabber?
(5) Same as (4) but for render queue.
(6) If I subscribe, use meshgrabber on a character, then unsubscribe, will I lose the morphs I made on the character?
(7) Most fundamental question (because I hate software subscriptions): (a) If I unsubscribe does it mess up everything I've already done? 20 years of work? (b) Will my earlier characters and scenes still work? (c) What about the characters and scenes I create during my subscription?
If you own Mesh Grabber and Render Queue 3 (or earlier versions), you can use them independently of your Premier subscription.
You can continue to use them perpetually even after you cancel your Premier subscription.
However, please note that future updates to Daz Studio may change specifications, which could potentially render them unusable.
Whether these older versions will remain compatible with new Daz Studio updates depends on ManFriday, the creator of these tools.
The latest versions of Geometry Sculptor (formerly Mesh Grabber) and Render Queue are exclusive benefits of Premier Membership.
If you cancel your Premier subscription, you will no longer be able to use them.
Morphs created with Geometry Sculptor will not be lost even if you cancel your Premier subscription.
Characters and scenes created during your Premier subscription will generally continue to function even after you cancel it.
However, as an exception, if you are using morphs or materials for characters exclusively available to Premier members (such as Aiko 9, Boris for Mateo 9), these will become unusable if you cancel your Premier subscription.
(1) It is best you go to the DAZ Premier explanation of the product page as they can change that at anytime.
(2) correct
(3) correct, but if you own Mesh Grabber Bundle (Win) | Daz 3D already or buy it then you can use it. It is not as fast or as tightly integrated with DAZ Studio though. RenderQueue though is no longer available to you and can no longer be bought either, unless you bought it before DAZ 3D removed it from the store.
(4) No, but I don't know if ManFriday will further development of that version or create bug fixes, should any be found.
(5) If you already owned RenderQueue before DAZ 3D pulled it from the store you will keep access to that old, no longer in development, except as a Premier component, version. They are two different products now.
(6) Not if you save the edits out to finalize them.
(7) It won't mess you up if you save out the edits you created and particularly if you owned RenderQueue and the MeshGrabber bundle before DAZ 3D pulled RenderQueue from the store. It is possible though that eventually the formats of the internal representations of the products will change and it will mess you up, subscribing and unsubscribing: that you should ask DAZ most importantly. If you already own the products then when you want to make MeshGrabber edits in particular do it logged off from DAZ 3D so you use the old Mesh Grabber and won't create the problem were you must subscribe to continue your work. Maybe use the DAZ Studio Release version logged in and the DAZ Studio Public Beta logged off to edit. Create the original scene in DAZ Studio Public Beta when satisfied copy it over to another directory with scenes that only DAZ Studio Release edits. Careful! Because you will get confused unless you name and rename the scenes to indicate whether they were created with Premier or without Premier, so you could name them ..\..\DAZ-WITHOUT-SCENES\DAZ-Scene-2024-12-15-WITHOUT.ds and ..\..\DAZ-PREMIER-SCENES\DAZ-Scene-2024-12-15-PREMIER.ds for example.
Many thanks to both CES3D and Nonesuch00 for your answers to my questions. I may have misunderstood you, Nonesuch, but in your answer to (7) you imply that to use premier exclusive products, I have to be logged in to Daz. Is that true?
I certainly hope that Daz is not staring to adopt {the major arts and design software company who shall not be named here} mafia-like policies? (Nice little artwork you have there. Be a shame if something happened to it.) The reason I bring that up is that other company has made it incredibly difficult to unsubscribe from their {subscription service} and if you do manage to do that, many of the things you created with it break. Fonts go away, colors disappear, some layers become unusable. That other company is highly unethical; I refuse to do business with them. But I do not think Daz is in the least bit unethical; Daz is an ethical compay. But I hesitate to subscribe to Premier because of the way that other company has handled subscriptions and mistreated its customers.
lamoid_5f20d3e469 Yes you have to be logged into Daz to use the Premier only content
Yes, like Robert said, you must be logged in to use the DAZ Premeir features integrated into DAZ Studio.
You need to log-in periodically (I don't think we have been told how often) but it is possible to work offline most of the time, none of the features requires an active connection to work.
I understand that lamoid_5f20d3e469's concern in item (7) is whether characters and scenes created before and during the Premier subscription will still function after unsubscribing from Premier.
As you all have mentioned, continuous access to Premier exclusive products requires periodic login to Daz.
However, I believe lamoid_5f20d3e469's primary concern is not whether they can use Premier exclusive products after unsubscribing, but whether the characters and scenes created using those products will still be usable after unsubscribing.
They would load, but the Premier Exclusive items would effectively be missing files so they would not - to a greater or lesser extent - look as they originally did.