Philywebrider opened this issue on Apr 22, 2011 ยท 155 posts
Silke posted Tue, 26 April 2011 at 5:08 PM
Until that "always running process" is resolved, DS4 will not be installed on my machine, come hell or high water.
When I close an app, I expect it to close all processes and not suck up memory although I'm not using it.
DS4 is doing just that with this content management service they make you install. (Check the DS4 threads on the Daz Forums)
There is also a problem with Metadata (which is why DS has to connect and check, as I understand it), but when someone spoke up about Poser handling it differently -- he instantly had his head bitten off for daring to mention Poser.
So DS4 Beta will go nowhere near my box until they stop that process from auto starting when you're not even using DS.
Another thing... I'm with you on the Cloth room.
And yet another thing... DS standard, with no plugins, no nothing, may be free, but if you want an all singing all dancing version, you pay a heck of a lot more for everything you want/might need, than you would spend on Poser.
On top of that, the plugins are 3rd party supported. Which means every time DS changes, the plugins need to be updated and may not work until the plugin creator does that. How many plugins have been abandoned over the years?
I think anyone making a living from creating renders for projects can't really rely on an application where only the core functionality is guaranteed, but not any 3rd party plugins they might use/need to use to create what they want to show a client.
The full figure setup tools for DS are what... $150?
I bought them a while ago and sent them back, because they announced DS4 and a totally different setup in there. Since no one could tell me if the Advanced Setup tools plugin was still needed in DS4, I'm not touching them with a bargepole right now.
I have nothing against modular software. Vue does it very well, but then...all the modules are made by E-on, not 3rd party supported. That's the difference. If Vue is updated, all the modules will work after the update.
If DS is updated, you're usually stuck until the plugin creator updates the plugin.
That bugs me.
Silke