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*In the short term, no. Next versions are probably safe. But if DAZ continues with:

• Daz | Studio
• Bryce
• Carrara
• Hexagon
  separately, then the weaknesses of those separate products will combine to overwhelm their strengths; even more so when they are effectively competing with each other under the same roof. Eventually, DAZ will have to rationalise the range - or DAZ (and maybe the range) will go belly up.

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I agree with you here. I think it is inevitable that there will be a consolidation of properties,

I think that Bryce will eventually be assimilated into Carrara. The reason is simple. Carrara is already tied to a modeler that can export into other formats.

Furthermore, the C5 engine, terrain editor, and plant editor presently beat the present version of Bryce 5.

If they can assimilate the DTE (Deep Texture Editor) into Carrara, then Bryce will be truly expendable for their needs.

I would not be surprised if Hexagon is either bundled or built into Carrara, either. Allow it a “room’ for figure editing and rigging, and that will be Carrara 7...As long as they don’t load the program with enough “bonus’ material to crash a space station...

As I’ve said before, I REALLY don’t want a built-in browser with two dozen high resolution DAZ figures trying to start up every time I open the application...Or a web link that looks for new content online as soon as the application is launched...

Just a few thoughts.