Holly molly I'm confused. For almost 8 years I used lightwave. I paid close to $2000 for it . Than they gave it away for $899. What a cheep trick to play on loyal users who payed the big bucks! I was so po..ed I decided I would not upgrade,sold it and when Carrara 5 pro beta  was relesed I thought yes Eovia has made good on all the failures and missed promises of matacreation .they finally had a high end product that could reach the big 5.

Heck I just dished out over $25,000 on a whole new studio , equiptment ect , with Carrara5pro as my central app on 4 top line workstaions with full studio dv edit capabilites ect. ! No bull crap so I'm sweating the gamble I will probably now lose.

 When daz bought bryce I upgraded to 5 and was so dissapointed I never uses it again. They claim it was because Corel did not want to do a core rewrite. So you bought it. Fix it. Eovia bough carrara and did so beyond most everyones expectations

What made Carrara rock is that programers not marketers fixed it. So it WORKS. And certainly they made very well on sales of 5 and 5 pro dont let anyone fool you they didnt need help from Daz.

I read that many say they shall wait and see and not judge. I cant help but have a sinking feeling in my gut. Carrara needs the Eovia group to continue onto 6 I have no doubt of that. I am a member of the SDK group ,and I see no way without these minds behind the product , how can it grow? Daz is too slow in the pipeline and although great at marketing fall way short of making worthy software of the stature carrara 5 has reached with Eovias minds behind it. In fact on there forum they make many excuses why things cant be done with bryce that are stupidly simple minor programming routes that don't require rewrites of core but understanding of architexture. Why is it Daz never releases the bryce SDK? Like the poser SDK its some secret code LOL ..not. Most of use old timers have hacked the guts of every metacreations legacy package , we know the whats true.

My list of improvements and features for 6 seemed within the grasp of Eovia but with daz I've lost all confidance. Are they willing to speek up? Say hey we know Carrara ? inside and out ! we can make 6 to the expectations Eovia has now set ? Doubt it.

there is nothing worse in this 3d world than to get behind a product get comfortable and fimilar with companies , people , products ....... Than feel they just sold out your future with the product you supported.

In a year there will either be a Carrara 6 success or failure. If it fails Than Carrara will fall off  the map like bryce has and we Loyal supporters to keep up with the times will have to move on to yet another product or suffer the wooooasmeee complex. I'm not looking to gamble my future of my work or wallet for 3d rollette . Its a crappy game these companies play. To bad I payed the price.

Regards

Mike G AKA JRABBIT