Forum: Carrara


Subject: 8.5 worth it?

thomllama opened this issue on Sep 02, 2014 · 54 posts


manleystanley posted Fri, 05 September 2014 at 8:47 AM

Two words, soft cloth.

That is one of the best updates in C8.5. It can take practically any clothes and drape them for static sceens. It's not dynaimc cloth, I still need to do that in Studio with optitex, then transfer to C8.5 to finish staging. But going from Studio to C8.5 is fairly painless.

Things to note: Autofit only works if you are running CMS, if you have issues with it on your system or just no need of it, autofit wont work. {see DAZ shoving thengs down my throat I don't want}.

DustRider have you bought anything new for Genesis G2M/F? I was trying to build up my genesis/G2 pose library, but after having to get refunds on my last 6 purches because they just errored out in C8.5 I quit shopping at DAZ. DAZ has made some change to how poses are witten for genesis and G2 and neglected to update carrara for them to be compatable. This also effects new characters for G2. Trying to apply them in C8.5 just errors out.

But I will agree with others. The big update DAZ touted for months before the release of C8.5 was genesis compatability. When C8.5 was released people found out that compatability was magenal at best and has only gotten worse as DAZ updates studio and the file formats created by Studio and not updates C8.5 to keep up.

Also not DAZ does not update carrara to keep up with the mac OSs.