Dave-So opened this issue on Apr 24, 2006 · 244 posts
Kolschey posted Tue, 25 April 2006 at 5:45 AM
Here is my concern with the merger/acquisition.
DAZ makes it's money selling content.
As long as they are willing to allow Carrara to continue to be an application for creating 3D scenes and content, I think this can work out. Certainly, they will not lack for funding.
What I do NOT want, however, is for Carrara to simply become a content delivery vehicle. While I have no objection to the content that DAZ sells, I have no need of it either. I model all of my own characters, scenes, and props.
I am hoping that we do not start to see future upgrades bundled with DAZ base meshes (Aiko 3, V3, M3, Mildragon) in lieu of useful features, like what we saw with the initial release of Bryce 5.5, where a barely functioning program was sold partially on the merit of a grab bag of free figures.
I am hoping that the program architecture is not monkeyed with in order to deliver or showcase content (as in the case of Poser 5's Content Paradise- which quickly became reviled as "Content Parasite" for the system slowdowns it engendered)
I have nothing against those who want to purchase outside content. I just don't want to see Carrara become a puppet theater for the action figure-du-jour.
I don't want to see the DAZ programmers second-guessing the Carrara programmers.
Carrara 5.1 Pro works beautifully on my machine. DAZ Studio does not. Due to the DS code being overly reliant on a particular iteration of OpenGL, I cannot even directly manipulate a figure in the main window of DS- and this is with a high end ATI FireGL 3100 video card. A number of Mac users find that Bryce 5.5 is virtually unusable on their OS X systems. I don't want to find myself upgrading to the next build of Carrara, only to find that my system is getting tangled up with conflicted code and top-heavy features.
Now these are all worst-case scenarios, and I would like to hope that I am being alarmist.
Better yet, I would like to hope that the folks from DAZ will read, understand, and respect the concerns of the larger Carrara/Hexagon community.
Sincerely,
-Krzysztof Mathews