I noted in one of the threads over on Daz...

Its thorny because it competes with their main application: Daz Studio.

Its poorer competition in some ways (assembly room and model compatibility) but then far better in others.

BUT mostly... Carrara is not a beginner app. You don't have to be advanced for it... but you need to be beyond just loading in the latest naked female character and hitting the make art button...

And that is risky.

Because selling nude female character is the bread and butter of a digital-Barbie shop.

Anything that makes it harder for your customer to play with the dolls is bad.

Carrara is fine as a 'now that you have learned Daz, move on to this' application... except it isn't. Its NOT 'Advanced Daz Studio' - you open it and end up seeing a UI based not on Daz Studio, but on a fork from Poser 4. Carrara is using a UI developed by Metacreations, and refined over the years...

So its got this odd space to fill...

It would be the perfect application to sell for the customers who have moved beyond the make-art button but are not professional modelers... except that to be in that niche it should work well with Daz Studio from a training perspective, rather than against.

You could make C9 use Daz Studio's UI and drop the Assembly room for just having it bolt onto the side of Daz Studio... and then anger all of your existing Carrara users...

Or you could revise Daz Studio's UI to be that of Carrara's Assembly, Shader, and Render rooms... and anger all of your existing Daz Studio users...

The ideal solution in that... isn't.

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