DAZ_Rand opened this issue on Dec 09, 2011 · 1133 posts
ksanderson posted Fri, 16 December 2011 at 8:43 AM
Quote - > Quote - > Quote - Well, Daz is enterprising. You can't fault them for that. DS was developed for certain goals: Carrara for somewhat different goals. That is to Daz's credit. They acknowledged that users might have different objectives in creating 3D images. Good ON them!
Yes, that's true, but seems that DAZ is leaving all his other software covered with dust in a corner of the room and has only eyes for DS...
It's pretty common for a software house to buy up the competition to kill it through attrition.
In this case, though, DAZ saved Bryce from extinction and saved Carrara and Hexagon from heading that way. Carrara's popularity was dropping off, except for the diehards, when eovia decided to unload Carrara along with Hexagon to DAZ and move back to Europe. I had Carrara a couple years before the sale and it was frustrating to watch them start sliding. I only stayed with them because DAZ bought them, otherwise I would've saved my money and eventually bought (probably around now as it would've taken this long to save enough) XSI or 3ds Max.
DAZ Studio has the advantage of being new from the ground up and not having to deal with legacy code. That's why I laugh when somebody is complaining about no new manual for Carrara yet. Not enough has changed to rule out using the old manual. What little is new can be figured out online.