stormchaser opened this issue on Aug 23, 2006 · 54 posts
Tirjasdyn posted Mon, 28 August 2006 at 11:01 AM
Quote - I think Daz will continue to support Poser thru Carrara ebcause so many carrara users use it with poser and would not buy future editions that didn't support Poser.
IMO, the most prudent course of action for daz would be for Carrara to continue to support Poser as well as D|S, and for Bryce to be D|S only, as it has never had direct Poser import
Daz maked way too much selling Poser content to Poser users for them to evenconsider dropping Poser support. They'd lose a large percentage of their business if they did.
While most of us agree that this is a "prudent" course for Daz, I don't think they will. Sure they provide current poser content...but only because they're third party brokers do. Daz Originals have only full support for D|S, then poser 4 support. In the Artzone chat they mentioned that they would work on combining Bryce and Carrara. They've already been combining D|S and Bryce and it's supposed to be more so in 6. Bryce only supports poser in that you can import basic (poser 4) scenes in to D|S, that has no advantage over Shade or Vue which are working towards full poser support.
If you're working with Poser then Vue seems to be the better app. It's direction is moving to better and better Poser intergration. Shade is the same way. Between the three they make for good low to mid range set of software. Vue also supports a range of high end apps.
The D|S, Bryce, Carrarra, Hexcon package seems to working towards one Uber app. This does not bode well for poser support in the future. If you are planning to get Carrara and either move to D|S or never upgrade then you should be okay. But I think the DAZ/Poser rift will never get smaller.
I think which program you get depends on what you plan to do. Having said that, I'm a Poser/Shade user so I went with Vue 5i and will be recieve the Vue 6I upgrade. So far I've been pretty pleased. Render times are reminisent of bryce for complex scenes but you can resume renders at any time (currently I'm rendering an abstract modeled in Top Mod. It should take 6 days but I'm only rendering it while I'm at work or asleep, I stop the render to work on other things or play games). Bryce only has some of that capability.
I've seen some nifty images with Carrara but I haven't played with it much.
Vue d'Esprit 6 will require plugins to get a good deal of the features, including Ecosystems. If you want all the plugins already go for the Vue 6 Pro...it's dEsprit with all the plugins for poser, lighting, Ecosystems etc.