sparrownightmare opened this issue on Jul 22, 2008 · 17 posts
Pinklet posted Wed, 23 July 2008 at 4:51 PM
You are not the only one experiencing weird problems. I am saddened to that fact that my fears have materialized. I always thought that Carrara was not a good fit for DAZ. I gave them the benefit of the doubt but to me, it is increasingly apparent that DAZ direction with Carrara and that of all the RayDream/InfiniD users of old is not entirely compatible. DAZ seems to have prioritized making Carrara compatible with their content at the expense of stability.
I am with you 100% when you state that DAZ ought to fix the prevailing bugs in Carrara as opposed to adding more features. Stability and usability should be paramount. I am not even sure if the traditional DAZ customer base is even that interested in Carrara that much, since they don't commonly produce their own content. DS also seems to more then adequately serve this customer base. Some can't even realize what benefit Carrara might have over DS.
I bought Modo, and I am on the process of learning it. Very impressive so far. I will still use Carrara, but it certainly will not be my main 3D program like it has been since before it was even called Carrara.
Hexagon seems to be yet another causality from the DAZ/Eovia acquisition. Even more so then Carrara because it's development has been stifled completely by DAZ, du to the fact of not keeping the original development team on the payroll. Sad, because even against Modo, Hexagon does have advantages in usability. I do not blame DAZ for not wanting to keep a french based development team overseas, but still Hexagon will probably never reach it's full potential now do to these circumstances. DAZ promised informally that they would have a bug free new version by last November, well we are reaching the one year anniversary of that date and what we got was a half baked patch that broke more then what it fixed.
I still hold a bit of hope for Carrara since the original development team is still on board. Also it seems to be at the very least patched more frequently then Hexagon. Hexagon is the one that I have lost all hope. I will still keep an eye on it's development, but now my time is used learning Modo.