DAZ working hard to catch up? I don't think so. Personally I do think they'll never catch up. It took them almost a year to get Bryce 5.5 out, after pushing the release date further and further over a period of 7 months or so. In this year they've hardly accomplished anything at all. They improved the render speed, but that's only for a select number of pc's, a lot of people do not experience the rendering speed increase at all, but rather a decrease. Secondly they've integrated D/S into Bryce, they promised not to do so, but did it anyway. Third new feature they've added is OpenGL additions. The rest are some minor improvements and bug fixes, but you can count those easily on two hands...... All of this has taken them almost a year and speaking programming wise these are just minor improvements. The real catching on has still to start. so if minor improvements already take a year how long will the real improvements take? I wouldn't place my bet on DAZ at all, they don't seem to be holding the best cards at all. Of course some will like D/S better then Poser and others will like Vue over Bryce, that's a personal taste. But if we really compare all them as applications (without personal preference and taste), Poser 5/6 and Vue 5 (not even mentioning Vue 5 Infinite) are much better then Bryce 5/5.5 and DAZ Studio are. Bryce and D/S are applications from the past, Poser and Vue are up to date applications.

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