I hear you!  I keep wanting to stick with DS4.5, but DS3 is so quick and painless (except when it crashes!)  Anyway, thanks again.  I certainly understand.

 

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bad news.. I found an old installer of DS3 and create a scene and saved it. The old .daz and .dsa formats do not make any sense to me. Since I manually edited large portions of the .duf files to make them do what I wanted with my RLS I am pretty sure I won't be able to do that with the old file formats.

Also I am not exactly 'jumping with joy' when I think of re-building the same set in an older format. I would take weeks, if not, months.

I want to say I respect your wish to stay with DS3, it's clearly something 'strong', since I heard it from others too. So what I write here below is in NO way an attack on your choice, it only tells you how I work. :)

I myself always stop using the old software as soon as I read in comments / posts that the new software is (somewhat) stable.

In life there is no going back, only going forward imho. Standing still and not willing to change IS going back, since the others are going forward. At some point in time you will find yourself too far back to catch up.

'New' isn't always 'better', I know that too. 'New' can be nice when new features are presented. But 'new' also applies to learning. Learning how to handle the new software can be a pain in the butt.

Things you could do with your eyes closed in the old software now takes re-learning, searching for the right buttons, searching to get your workspace organized so you can swiftly work in it. Searching for a new workflow sometimes too.

We are people. We are what we are. We tend to want to keep things 'as they are', we don't want to change. But you know what? Even then we change, if we want or not.

Who can say that in his/her life nothing has changed in the past 10 years? I think nobody can. With software it goes much, much faster. So don't fight it. Embrace it.

Sorry for going way OT :)