Plug-in rendering engines are supported by Carrara.  The Luxus rendering engine is a perfect example.

I would like to have an update to c8.1 as suggested by the opening of this thread.  I'll just post for stanman now that Daz won't do it.  That doesn't change the fact that I would like it.

What confuses me is why Daz isn't taking the plug-in approach more seriously.  If you want Genesis, make it a plug-in and let people grow into it.  Sell the genesis content and bring the user base that's intersested forward.

I understand that the there is a general opinion that Daz's function in life is to suck money from the user universe.  That doesn't change my feeling that selling plug-ins for Carrara is smarter and would retain friendliness with the user base.

Could we have vray for Carrara?  I don't know.  We have Luxus now.  Seems like its in the realm of possibilities.  In fact, it seems to me that several of the things discussed in this thread could be taken on by people outside of Daz and some new people could be satisfying some of the user base needs.

 

Where are those people?

 

I understand all of the complaining but I'm ready for some construction Too.

-Kix