I'm a bit of a neanderthal. Loud and in your face puts me in to that fight or flight mode. So I hate the none stop in your face sales at DAZ at a visceral level. They make me ether want to run, or want to beat the L out of someone. They certainly don't make me want to buy.

Now if you notice I have said nothing bad about carrara. The tweaks and updates are nice.

I love the new light icons, takes the guess work out what lights are where in a scene. Too bad some light quality tweaks didn't come with them. But the one thing wrong with them; the icons, is the tube light diameter doesn't change. So I end up with over head lights that look like oil drums hanging there.

The tweaks to the bullet physics had me going for days. I couldn't begin to guess how many hours I spent playing with soft cloth. Some thing that would be very useful is a drape freeze, so the draping could be calculated by the piece not the entire scene. Something that helps is to drape each piece seperately the export the drape piece as a .obj then reimport and align.

Note: did they fix the "pressure" in the soft body settings? To test this use 2 converted to vertex primative spheres, one with low pressuer one with high, the high one should bounce like a beach ball; with the expected squash deforming before bounce back. Other wise they will hit the floor like empty grape skins.

But most all the testing I did was with genesis. I'll give Genesis a C in carrara; A- in Studio. And Autofit a D. I've read a workaround for poke through in the DAZ carrara forum. But if modeling in the assembly room worked right that would make it much easier. I think the biggest issue with autofit in Carrara is the built in mil4 settings. Mil3 clothes usually convert fine; but tend to pose poorly.

You know the frugel me loves the concept of autofit, just look at all the $ I spent on Xdresser. But it fails too often to be depended on.

Thing is DAZ is losing money on me all the way around. I was ready to buy the mil4 morphs for genesi to see if that would make autofit work better. But that, out now as well as the sales of poses, skins, and creature morphs. I like working with genesis when the clothes fit. But I have already spent money on genesis and not seeing DAZ doing anything with it for 2 years makes me wonder why. Just another reason that genesis compatability doesn't add value to the .5 update for me.

Right now I can't seem to find the known issues list but if I recall correctly; and if I don't I'm sure some one will correct me, but I thought it said it wasn't compatable with G2F. You know the one all the new stuff is for, the latest and not yet out dated figure. Explains why there is no G2F items with the update.

On a sour note, what if one of the "new features" in C9 is G2F/M compatability?

Oh well, us carraraests just love leftovers and handmedowns, we can do so much with it.