I use it to model.  Once in a blue moon I do a render.   I'm sticking with version 7 -- DAZ would have to pay ME to "upgrade" now.  All they seem to be able to do is bloat the program and break what works.

 

It needs to go to another company.  DAZ can't even decide what kind of company they are, much less what they want to do with Carrara, and if I didn't know better I'd think they had only one programmer for the whole company and she's on part-time as well!

In a better world, they'd stage DAZStudio as the posing, animation, and render engine (optimized for pre-made content), Hexagon as the "create from scratch" engine, and Carrara between them as the "does all things and is priced accordingly" ap.  Except that Hex is buggy as hell and has never been supported, D/S has turned into a confusing mish-mash of micro-pricing and add-ons, and Carrara flounders; unable to spend the time the software needs, they try to keep it competitive by leaping blindly in the direction of every cool idea they think they can get a half-assed approximation to work long enough for Marketing to run off a promo image.

The one admission I will give them is that the two major platforms have also stumbled upon sell-the-flash-not-the-function and you can't turn around without running into a completely revamped OS that instantly becomes a must-have (despite breaking half of the functionality and the majority of the software built for the previous version).  So DAZ is forced to try to play catch-up to Apple and Microsoft when they could be working on more important things.

 

 

Yes.  I've been using the software since Ray Dream.  I was a regular contributor to three generations of the bug report system, and a regular at the DAZ forums, helping newbies with modeling and texture woes.

So DAZ changes the forum and deletes all my history, changes the bug reporter AGAIN and as far as I can tell deleted all my bugs, and if you say anything other than Mary Sunshine Larks in the Park around the forums, they delete your post.

I'm not waiting on them to straighten up any more.  I'm waiting on them to have a coup.  Maybe a completely new management might be able to start rebuilding trust.