Dear thefixer, I had no doubt that yours was little more than thinking aloud.

B.t.w., in the DAZ 4 product page (I just found that it is available to "buy"), in the COLLADA Import/Export section it is written that:

"Dynamic clothing can also now be exported as part of a COLLADA file using the new "Freeze Simulation" feature. Available as part of the Dynamic Clothing plugin, Freeze Simulation is used to convert dynamic clothing simulations into static morph data. The same data can then be imported into your Carrara scenes."

In other words, forget for now (and forever) of having dynamics in Carrara capable of handling cloth (amusing thought, compared to Blender cloth and fluid capabilities). Add to this that only Optitex can create clothes for their engine and... well I lack words.

I think that, for Carrara, 2011 is the decisive year. Either DAZ gets out a Pro version with some serious improvements in the modeler, scripting and export to LuxRender (or other renderers) or Carrara will enter the same league of Hexagon, i.e. a program so behind the competition that the cost of realigning it to other programs far exceed the possible cash flow of the sales.

GIMP 2.7.4, Inkscape 0.48, Genetica 3.6 Basic, FilterForge 3 Professional, Blender 2.61, SketchUp 8, PoserPro 2012, Vue 10 Infinite, World Machine 2.3, GeoControl 2