Why Digital Yuusha?
I'm not a graphics artist, and have no artistic sense at all. 3D graphics is also a foreign topic to me, and even thinking about binary files or trying to render a 3D model sounds like an impossible task.
There are many advanced 3D software that support animations and all that. But if you're not serious about 3D graphics or animation, you'll probably never get anywhere with those (I've used blender, milkshape, and 3DS max studio to import/export models, and already have no idea what I'm doing)
There are many posers out there as well, some open-source others closed. For instance, there's XNALara, which is open-source I believe. From what I've seen, you can add all sorts of things and development is continually being done. It's probably better than digital yuusha, but doesn't seem very easy for a casual user.
If you just want to make scenes, you don't need to learn anything about 3D. Just get the program and click around.
Modding made easy
Modders at hongfire have been working with Illusion games for years now and have produced some pretty user-friendly, easy-to-use tools that allow you to quickly import new content and modify existing content. All files are extractable so you can modify anything provided that you know what it does (and a lot of notes are available)
Powerful PP tools such as Alamar's SB3Utility and ScumSuckingPig's PPextractor make file extraction and modification as easy as a couple drag-and-drops and button-clicks.
What can you mod?
Add new maps!
Add new items!
Add new clothes!
Change functionality on the client! (to some degree)
And currently investigating how to add new characters.
Closed-source, so unless someone reverse engineers the client, that is all you have to work with.
Adding new characters requires you to follow the standards used by the program, which requires an understanding of all of the files involved (and most of it is binary data)
No control over lighting (as in, you can define where they should be positioned and any colors, but you can't move them around when they're loaded).
No control over fingers (though they provide 100 finger poses which you may be able to modify).
It is mainly for producing images, so if you are looking to animate stuff this is not for you.
This doesn't do animations
Again, this program isn't meant for animations. You can try to do it by taking a number of screenshots and then play them in sequence, but there is no easy way to set up the scenes to do so. Well you can, but that takes a lot of time and effort and I don't think it's worth it.
So don't complain about not being able it only being able to make screenshots!
Downloads?
A stand-alone client is available with all data files included separately.
If Illusion sold this client separately, I'd buy it.
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