Forum: Carrara


Subject: The Real Reason Carrara users Have trouble with Daz

tsarist opened this issue on Jul 06, 2015 ยท 45 posts


Male_M3dia posted Sun, 19 July 2015 at 2:41 PM

@ Male_M3dia.

It is clear that these posts are not directed at you personally and that we see that in a more general way.
It should be well understood that the users of Carrara are much more dependant of Poser than DAZ Studio (in general).
The last evolutions in this market show that DAZ3D wants to make disappear the compatibility with Poser and impose their own format.
I have another question: as a Pa and for only one product, do you have an exclusiveness with DAZ3D or are you free to propose this product to other companies ?

First, I can sell at any store I wish. I used to sell here and I still have things at poseraddicts. Things I sell at DAZ can only be sold there but that's ok as I make more money than I've made at other stores. I also have way more than one product; just a brief glance and I counted at least 48 at DAZ.. ;) As to the first part of your post, there is a thing called innovation that it seems people haven't heard of. Companies, especially software companies, are supposed to improve their product and make it easier for certain tasks to be done. DAZ did that with the Genesis platform as well as the DSON format to support it. The format allows things such as scene portability and importing morphs much easier than what could be done with the poser format. That said, this was offered to Smith Micro and they didn't want it. Years later, the figures and format has proven very successful; so it's not like SM couldn't have the access to the tech themselves so your assertion that DAZ wanted to make their products incompatible with Poser is very incorrect and beats the very dead horse that has been laying in the field for years. Also, it's not like DAZ kept SM from improving their software either particularly on the figure development front.

What I do see is DAZ Studio is their flagship application right now, and that brings in the money. Not many products are being made for Carrara, far less than years before, and that's really going determine what happens with the program. Not from DAZ itself, but actual vendor support.