The problem isn't carrara. Carrara preforms quite well and as has been said it's a great finishing app. I use Hex2 for all my modeling, I use studio for the content tools that aren't in carrara; and for the freatures DAZ borked in carrara for using genesis.

I just don't get why DAZ doesn't realize if they don't do a fix to C8.5 no one is going to trust they will fix the issues with C9, there for wont buy it. So yes, DAZ not fixing C8.5 is going to cost them C9 sales.

One of the problems; IMHO, is DAzatics. DAZ fan boys that are convinced DAZ does no wrong, and are convinced to that point they will make the most illogical arguments to suport DAZ's acticions. The sad part is most of them have convinced them selves that carrara is trash and Studio is far superior with out ever having used carrara or viewed a carrara gallery. It's called blind ignorance.

Now of coarse carrara isn't all bad, in fact most of the features in carrara work quite well. DAZ did do some tweaking of bullet so soft cloth draping is quite doable; really if you have C8.5 and haven't tried this you're missing out. The light icons; aside from the tube light not scaling in diameter with the length, are a boon when setting lights. Holly pointed out quite a few improvements to the animation tools. So yes C8.5 does have functional improvement.

But the push for C8.5 was genesis compatability. I spent a fair chunk O change on genesis morphes soon after genesis came out. During the C8.5beta I used geneis a lot, or should I say when ever the cloths fit let me. Since I got C8.5 and found the features DAZ borked in the release version, I've found Studio and Hex2.5{via the Studo bridge} invalueable tools for charcter prep. If DAZ fixed autofit and modeling triax weight mapped clothes in carrara, I'd still use studio for this because it is so much easier to send to Hex, fix issue/make morph, send to Studio, name, done.

Sorry, The Studio to Hex2 bridge is the way to work DAZ models. Studio to Hex means no domains to try to work across, carrara's modeling still works figures in domains. So in order to fix autofit breast tuck in carrara you will have to figure out how to work across 3 domains to do it. But that is moot because you can't create morphs of triax clothes to fix the issues.