Quote - Didnt some of us fear a Cararra/Bryce merger just a little while ago when DAZ aquired Cararra? ;-) Opinions change fast :-/

Yep. I used to think merging the two would be a good idea...
Carrara is just a Poser wannabe . It could be a lot more than that; but everything that would make it more than that is broken or bugged such that you have to use convoluted workarounds. And it doesn't do everything that Poser can do; or do the things that Poser does do as good as Poser can do them.
Then too, DAZ did nothing to resolve any issues outside of content integration (which is not a bad thing, but also not the only thing).

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As far as future Bryce development, DAZ already said that they make rigging manipulation controls native to Bryce 7 (you'd still have to load through D|S). And they said that there would be instancing, and an SDK released.
I'm pretty much of the mind that DAZ will only improve their program's content handling capabilities and ignore everything else. Maybe they'll prove me wrong...

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