Generalities leaves room for exceptions. I'll admit to it, I paint with a real big brush. I'm well aware of all my faults; I've had women hand me lists.

Carrara changes often? On what planet? I'm going to call you on that one. You could have used the C6 manual for C8, it really hasn't changed that much; for good or bad.

And Yes, I P'ed a B about the lacking in documention, especial since there was only really the soft body beta info to add.

Wow, that just shows how vastly different people perseive things. For me the Blender learning curve is me beating my head against a vertical brick wall. Carrara's was a gental strole up a meadow hill. :) In fact what sold me on carrara was how easily I could navigate the interface.  I don't really care for the Poser or studio interface; although I think the new one is much easier to navigate {fisherprice appearance and all :lol: }

If load and shot makes you happy, it makes DAZ happy. No really, if you have fun just loading, staging, and rendering, have fun. I don't.

I'm more of a technician the an artist. I work on dozens of scenes, working on 4 right now. I love to spend an hour getting a texture just right, and another working on getting 1 light just right. If I get a freebie that just has a color fine by me, except for figures I'm not worried if it doesn't come with textures. Or if carrara eats the shaders importing an LWO; depends on what era lightwave made it. I'll reset the shaders. I have Genetica 3.6 pro; top of the line texture generator and more. So no textures? No problem ;) Thing is, once I get it to the rendering stage, I lose interest. Next scene. Of the dozens of scenes I stage in a year I may only do 3 or 4 final renders.

So when some one gripes about having to take 3 minutes to reset a shader I tend to over react. I wish I could be happy just spending 3 minutes on a shader :lol:

I have Antonia, she used to be prettier.

I don't have V5. I have genesis but certainly can't aford to use it.

I'd ask Rand a question, but I usually just PM him :D Of coarce I always get this picture in my head of him with head in his hand thinking " Noooo, not another PM from Stan" :lol:

I'm me everywhere I go :D yup I'm on an up weeeeeeee

KimberlyC  sorry, cross post. I'll be good ;)