Hi 0oseven,

I appreciate what your saying about trying to prevent Carrara from being left out. I think VWD deserves all the recompense that he can get from the work he must have put in to this. There can't be too many people on the planet who would even know where to begin. (OK I stand to be corrected on that but that's how it seems to me!)

But it would be a pity if it all became Poser's gain at the expense of other software because VWD at the outset envisaged making his program available to users of other software, starting with Poser.

His original idea of selling through Renderosity seems to have been abandoned because he wants to retain control over his method of generating licence keys. Naturally, he wants the best security system possible to prevent a hacked version of his program appearing on the internet for free one day.

The main aim of my post above was to give a quick description of the working of things for anyone just hearing about it for the first time. Thanks for clarifying that a stand alone version could be made to work with Carrara. I thought it would need to be re-written as a plugin. I guess that a stand alone version would only need to read the Carrara scene to pull out the elements it uses. (I say 'only' but it's beyond me!)

If DAZ knows anything about the wishes of its users it must know that a significant number of customers would love to have more in the way of dynamic clothes and hair. I sometimes wondered whether better Bullet Physics would be one of the big selling points of a new version of Carrara. The benefit to DAZ would be that probably many Studio users would buy into Carrara for that feature. Sadly, if I take that line of thought further then the provision of VWD's program for Carrara could take away from DAZ a major development opportunity. As we all know, however, what DAZ is interested in doing is anyone's guess.

In fairness to DAZ who pays the bills for its own Forums I don't think I could discuss VWD too much over there!

EDITED TO CLARIFY: re-reading my last comments I might have given the impression that I don't mind not having this for Carrara. On the contrary, I've wanted it from day one!