Quote - DAZ isn't looking for artists, hobbiest, or profesionals, they are looking for consumers and little more.

And the one thing I have learned in all my years with DAZ is you can't believe anything they tell you.

**smoke and mirrors ** (American & Australian) something which is intended to confuse or deceive people, especially by making them believe that a situation is better than it really is.

dog and pony show

Fig. a display, demonstration, or exhibition of something-such as something one is selling. (As in a circus act where trained dogs leap onto and off of trained ponies.) *Gary went into his standard dog and pony show, trying to sell us on an upgrade to our software. *

 

You're absolutely correct in all respects of your argument which is why I gave up on C at version 7. I occasionally check the forum because I'm enjoying watching a program I used to love die and all the slack jawed gawkers stand around making excuses for DAZ - "well, we didn't get ANY of the features we've been asking for years but let's just keep paying DAZ for nothing and MAYBE it'll get better in the next 'version'".

No offense, but WHAT SUCKERS!

Is posing half-naked women in "fantasy" armor worth paying that much for a very OLD program that's been around all these years and still doesn't have the features that the all the other software packages consider "old school"?

Is adding a cloth sim really that hard that DAZ still can't get it right? Or a fluid sim? Or is it that DAZ couldn't care less because they know their C user base will buy whatever garbage they release no matter the price?

Look at the the spline modeler, still essentially the same as the original RDS version and what about the half-assed manual that has NEVER really been updated and is still just as vague as the orginal RDS paper version.

I switched to Blender and couldn't be happier, they care about their users and actually listen to their requests. Pretty much every month there's a new feature to play with and it doesn't cost a single dime. And for those of you who aren't happy unless you get to throw a lot of money at something all the money you wasted on C you could have had another 3D package, loaded with features and tools and that actually worked they way it supposed to.

If there's a problem with Blender, they fix it. Unlike DAZ with their "we'll fix it when we get around to it, but in the meantime here's another dragon or some more fantasy armor to enhance Victoria's breasts and it comes with gigantic breast morphs so she can look like she has a glandular problem"

I would suggest to anyone who wants to do any REAL 3D work, switch to ANY other 3D software, even the crappiest $9.99 CAD software from the cheap bin is better than C at this point, and probably has MORE FEATURES.

I'll probably get another threatening email from DAZ, but I couldn't care less because somebody needed to say it, they've been getting away with the "best value 3D software package" excuse for too long because that's not only a completely FALSE statement but it's patently absurd.

And for those of you who will keep on flushing your money down the toilet because of some irrational attachment to C with no hope of it getting better "if you just hang on till there MIGHT BE a version 9", I admire your loyalty to DAZ, but in all liklihood - let's be honest - a "version 9" will just be another long awaited and repackaged .5 update with nothing really new and a higher price to cover the high costs of "feature research and development".

Question is, how much more development is needed to add features that should have been added a long time ago?

Good luck and enjoy the wait.