Yeah, basically. I don't really render in D|S. It has an interesting look and even does a nice cartoon. Since C5 I am actually doing more with native then importing hair/clothes and using imported pz2 for posing. I can setup a character and see what it looks like better/quicker in D|S and pose it easier. The powerpose w/ the pinning is very easy and intuitive. I haven't animated yet in D|S to export to carrara for tweaking as a pz2(so I am not sure you can export a pz2 animation sequence from D|S, but I know you can from mimic, pretty sure you can tho)If you export a figure as an obj from D|S it's pretty fast, but then you can't use prexisting rigging.Get the free plugins and exporter scripts from the free archive. The other plugins are also really dirt cheap, if you need them. There is currently a very minor issue w/ D|S obj export. They updated their format to be compatible w/ new obj syntax so for carrara it means one little change before import or no textures come in. You simply edit the obj file and remove the quotes around the mtl statement at the top in a text editor then save.Carrara then can read the textures. Still will have missing alphas, but I suspect carrara is at fault there since this seems to happen alot w/ other programs.DS is going to make some changes to this shortly tho.Anyway check it out.

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