Steve K. posted at 1:23AM Sun, 14 August 2016 - #4279831

dr_bernie posted at 3:34PM Sat, 13 August 2016 - #4279772

Believe it or not, there IS a Carrara 9 after all. Only it isn't made by Daz and it's not called Carrara. It's called Cheetah3D. It has all the features that you always wanted Carrara to have, and then some.

But Mac only?

Yes, Cheeetah3D is Mac only. The lead developer, Dr. Martin Wengenmayer, apparently wants it that way and it's very unlikely to change.

But look at it this way: For $99.- Cheetah3D does 80% of what the $3600.- Cinema 4D Studio does, and the 20% that it doesn't do are obscure features that you will probably never use.

So for $99.- you get an amazingly powerful, robust, modern and feature-loaded 3D app which makes a Mac worth buying. If you really want to get out of the zombie-like Carrara, this is the way to go.

The Daz Studio ---> Cheetah3D pipeline works surprisingly well. In the render above the spaceship exported/imported flawlessly. Actually the half-dozen very complex props that I have tried so far all transferred flawlessly from Studio to Cheetah3D.

Victoria 4 and her outfit and pose exported with a glitch on the eyes and face materials that got applied to the wrong shading domains. I fixed the face but I didn't have time to fix the eyes yet.

I think Cheetah3D will work flawlessly with Genesis 3 too. although I did not have any chance to try it yet. More on that later.