Quote - DAZ can't even get its own features to work right in carrara, I have no faith they can do anything but ruin the carrara render engine.

The comp I'm on now cost me less then $400, meaning I could have built a render farm for $1600. And it could be done for even less if you bought DIY kits.{i5 and 6gig}

Now this may be an option for some one with the right card, or money to get the right card, or a comp that can drive it once they get it, then the cost of octane. But please take in to account how badly render engine plugins for carrara have done, which is not at all well. If some one was to take the time to develope the plugin they would never get their man hours/$ back out of it unless they charged a greavious amount for it.

Still, in the end, this would be a rather elitest render engine plugin.

I have to disagree with you for once here.

My 2 posts above show that Octane will run on modest cards. If you do the homework of scene reduction you can fit a lot in.

As to things not working, just try out the demo. It works and it is here now. Can you try the Daz demo for free too? If so please spend an afternoon with it before saying it won't work.

Sure there are crashes, but there are crashes in Daz and Carrara anyway. You just have to save a lot (like a nervous flinch) and progress can be made. I've lived like this on both pieces of software for 4 years before Octane came along. It's a way of life.

Please give it a try.