Ya, right.

I like DAZ_Rand. He's always straight up with me. I think the man has weathered a hell of a storm here and came out intact. I'm sure he will post here when reads something worth responding to.

Now how to address the misconceptions and misinformation.

DAZ bought Carrara AFTER it was made poser content copatable and became the 3rd member of the poser content club. Add that to an already powerful CG app and DAZ would have had some third party compatition.

No DAZ wont be forcing CMS on Carrarests. CMS is simply, and nothing more then a content manager. You don't need it, both studio and carrara work with out it. I always uninstall CMS and I have had no problem using genesis or any of the new content.

Bryce can't use content directly so I don't see CMS being pushed in to it.

Nether Bryce nor Hex are dead, just resting. Of coarse it dosen't give a person much optimisiam that the DAZ bryce developer is gone. But I am sure DAZ will hire some intern to work on Bryce when it's development cycle comes back around. And as long as there is a bridge from Studio to Hex I don't see DAZ droping it, it is an integral part of content development now.

But we all know apps that don't sell content get moved to the bottom. In my opinion Hex was updated spacifically to be DS4 compable, yes we got some bug fixes but DS4 compatability was the big thing.

I have no problem with that. If it keeps Hex alive I'm all for it. Because when it comes down to it, I would rather naw my own foot off then bash my head against Blender again. My last try at blender had the cops knocking on my door because a neibhor thought I was tyring to kill some woman named Balinda.

Antonia is a nice figure, easy to work with and I am using her in carrara for my soft cloth experaments. She is also ugly.

If I move a figure from studio to carrara it doesn't go back. Carrara is my end app, what most of the rest of my apps are suport for. This includes studio. But carrara doesn't need studio. Carrara can use content as well as if not better then Poser or Studio. And you can certainly do more with it once it is there.

One of the problems with carrara, and what puts a few people off is you actually have to do something. Carrara isn't load and shot. Actually having to put some effort in to it puts people off. "Oh my you mean I have to reset shaders? You need to fix that".

Studio gives you a cube to work in, Carrara gives you a world.

DAZ is activly developing Carrara. DAZ knows there are things you can do in carrara that studio just can't manage. Carrara also sells content, so DAZ will continue to develope it even if it's just for us that like to work outside of the cube ;)

More over. DAZ is developing far more then just genesis compatability in Carrara. If you use carrara and are doing the beta you see all the new stuff; that it would be nice to have a manual to explain. But DAZ doesn't do mauals. no profit in it. I say that like I don't know there are folks working on their own time for the DS4 manual.

What bites on this is DAZ had a great person for doing the manuals but DAZ blew it.

Robynsveil this may be a poser forum, but it is an ask DAZ thread. Even though it is hard to post something off topic, you have manged it about 4 times.