I was one of those that helped crash hivewire lol. Thing is I can't use Dawn in carrara. Every time I try autofit just mangels her clothes and I can't dress her with out autofit popin up. Thanks DAZ for preventing me from using any new figures in carrara that doesn't come from DAZ.

Also check your history, I came to DAZ with carrara and studio was up to 2.? then. I think the first version of Studio I checked out was 1.2, and that was before I bought carrara; when I was evaluating CG apps. At that time studio really was nothing but a content staging app. Was completly worthless for what I needed a CG app for.

None the less the way I remember it poser/DAZ split from zygote, One had the idea of selling the app and having it set up so people could easily make their own content to exchange/sell. The other was strictly making content. They also realized they could sell far more content if the app that used it was cheeper, thus Studio was born. A content sales gimmick at the time. Seriously, Studio was created to sell content.

The battle between the two has been going on ever since. Each one doing little changes to their format when the other figures it out. As in, it's been my opinion for a while DAZ bought carrara to get the poser 5/6 SDK they couldn't get from Poser. That is also why P7 came out so soon after P6 and why it was so buggy. Poser wanted to get their format changes out before DAZ had Poser content working as well in studio as Poser.

But if you missed the release of Studio 4 and genesis, you missed the biggest brewhaha there has ever been in Poserdom. The new folks that took over DAZ at that time learned 2 valuable lessons, people wont pay for Studio, and DAZ can't get by with out Poser users. Thus DAZ's mad dash to invent and get DSON out to the public.

Now as far as Dawn, cute character, would like to work with her a bit more, but unless there is a good morph to fix her she really doesn't look any better then the mil3 figures. I'd like to say nice first try, but then most of the old DAZ crew is at hivewire now, so figure creation shouldn't be new to them.