"does Daz studio have AO or IBL or any kind of Global Illumination? Can you play audio track or full quicktime movie in animation pallet and SEE the audio wave?" Of course not :-) and you have no cloth dynamics NO Dope sheet or spline graph editor for serious character or object animation NO Direct support from Mimic( A DAZ owned program) NO python support to run powerful crossplatform utilities like Wardobwizard,puppetmaster etc. they recently recanted their claims the their "Dform 'tool will import poser Magnets.. it does not. NO Viable export to any other program except bryce Via standard OBj files with referenced mtl file No internal shader system at all or any type of "effects" to speak of. However May i suggest that there is a segment of still render hobbyists and digital pro illustrators whos rendering needs dont require any of these features thats fine and im glad that DAZ has offered them a way to render DAZ/Poser content At little to no cost ;-) so its all a matter of ones perspective and needs Me?? I have Poserpro4,poser5 &poser6 installed on my MAC and from my perpective they are all just Charcater animation and previsualization tools for sending my figure/content over to Carrarpro for rendering where I have true HDRI and GI and direct support for posers cloth dynamics. there will be no major "division" per se in the "community" as far as content providers go can anyone really see "Stonemason" or "Uzilite" or "Sanctumart" switching over to creating D/S content EXCUSIVELY??? Not likely. ;-/ And YA I know its Free but Add HALF of those features I just mentioned as plugins etc and see how fast the price starts to approach what we pay for a full seat of poser these days. Glad to see there is something for everyone though :-)

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