Quote - Hi guys :)

 

My first posting here - good to see the same old smiling faces - ManStan - I've missed you!

I also never fell for the C8.5 upgrade - not until Daz improves Carrara considerably in ways that have nothing to do with e-dolls!

Did you all know that G2 works better in Blender than it does in Carrara?  Use MCJ's plugin to transfer her from Studio and render with Cycles.

Those of you who have C8.5 can try something which i can't - transfer to Blender using MCJ's plugin, export as .fbx and open in Carrara.  This doesn't work in C8.1 because .fbx is borked, but should in C8.5.

My personal opinion is that Carrara has joined Hex and Bryce as abandonware.  Why would Daz spend time and money developing it when its only competitor in this price range is Blender and how do you compete against free.

Daz has fallen so far behind with Carrara that they could never catch up in a million years. Carrara's one advantage over Blender is ease of use and Blender is moving fast to eliminate that advantage.

With Studio, Daz has only to develop the core - want hair?  Buy the plugin, which is superior to Carrara dynamic hair.  Want terrain - buy the plugin,etc.,etc.

As I get to know Blender, my reasons for staying with Carrara are vanishing one by one!

Cheers:)

 

Hey, Roygee!

I've played around a bit in Blender recently. Got a pretty nice fluid sim from it. Carrara still has it beat for ease of use.

You're probably right about DAZ and Carrara. But like Bryce and Hexagon, Carrara works pretty well as it is. If DAZ never does a thing more with Carrara it still works. Sure, Carrara may be behind other 3D software packages, but not everybody needs the latest bells and whistles. Carrara does what I need it to do and with added 3rd party plugins, Carrara can do a lot more.

I've recently aqcuired 3dCoat. It's a great addition to my toolbox and works pretty well with Carrara. As I mentioned, I'm also toying with Blender. I'm going to paint myself into a corner with Carrara, but until it stops working entirely, it is my main app for image creation.

Whatever DAZ decides to do, I'm still going to use Carrara. It's not broken, it works just fine for what I do and it's fast and easy to use. I may criticize the latest version, but you can go to any 3D software focused forum and find that.