It will soon be summer time, and it will be time for Daz to hire a team of inexperienced interns to work on Carrara for another sloppy disastrous 'release' of the glorious 8.5.x.x series, by the end of September 2016.

This new 'release' will have a hastily put-together Connect functionality that will be mostly unusable except in some very exceptional situations and for only a handful of users.

It will also have an embryonic Genesis 3 implementation that will be, again, unusable for most users. As a result of this embryonic implementation all the weight-painting/weight-mapping functions that used to work reasonably well in C7 and C8.1 will be so badly screwed-up that they will become useless. It is also very possible that the UV-mapping functions too will be badly damaged in this new 'release' .

Here is a list of screw-ups that I am reporting on this new 'release', without having even seen it:

1. The Open GL 3D view will be noticeably less responsive than in 8.1.1.12. This scene (See Link) or this scene (See Link) will take 5 to 10 minutes to load in fully textured mode, while they take less than a minute in C8.1.1.12

2. The native renderer will be 10% to 12% slower when all textures are set to Gaussian Filtering. This is probably due to the introduction of Fast Mipmapping filtering mode, which apparently screwed-up everything else.

3. The Auto-Detect Runtimes will not work, and the content manager will be unusable because it will keep popping-up an annoying dialog each time you want to load a content.

4. As a result of the amateurish Connect implementation, each time you click on a menu, it will try to access Daz servers to get an approval. As a result you will sometime have to wait several minutes to do anything.

5. And of course, as I mentioned above, the Genesis 3 implementation will be embryonic at best, and all the existing weight-mapping/weight-painting functions, and possibly UV-mapping functions as well, will become a complete mess as a result.

And no, I am not drunk, I am just lucid, HA HA!!

From where do you have this info? At least, it shows that they don't give up Carrara (they'd be very stupid !). If this realize is for the connect only, I'm not shure that it will have sucess but it's a new step to arrive at a V9...

Any information if Poser will be compatible with new version of Carrara? I know Daz Studio will have support but Compatability with Poser is a must for me. Pappy

In case you didn't notice, I was only trying to be sarcastic. I do not have any inside information about Carrara's development.

But since there is no doubt in my mind that Carrara's occasional developments are done by inexperienced summer interns, I thought it would be funny to try and figure-out what will be in store for next fall.

Yes! Sarcasm was apparent. Authenticity of of new version of Carrara upcoming release was a possibility. You were very entertaining though.

" ... functions that used to work reasonably well in C7 and C8.1 will be so badly screwed-up that they will become useless."

"Farpotshket (Yiddish): Something that is all fouled up, especially as the result of attempts to fix it"

Doc

A Couple weeks late for April's Fools.

I still don't understand why Genesis doesn't work right in Carrara. The same with DUF format. It seems like Daz could have worked out something by now, without constantly breaking everything they have already fixed.

Oh well, I needed a little sarcasm break anyway. Thanks Bernie

tsarist posted at 11:08PM Mon, 18 April 2016 - #4266106

I still don't understand why Genesis doesn't work right in Carrara. The same with DUF format. It seems like Daz could have worked out something by now, without constantly breaking everything they have already fixed.

After a few fails, I have avoided DUF format entirely. Which means I don't buy much from DAZ anymore, having bought ~2,000 products (50 pages in my "Product Library") in years past. Too bad, there are a number of good vendors at DAZ, but few offer Poser format anymore.

Everything works fine for me :) but then I stopped upgrading carrara and studio a year ago and haven't bought anything from DAZ since.

So then what? Carrara will only be 15 yrs behind everybody else? And it probably still won't work and they'll still charge an outrageous price for it.

15 years behind ? It's not a problem, Carrara was 15 years in advance, today it's still a very good software (I use c8.1). But a real good upgrade shall be welcome (not about Genesis, but other functionalities).

Actually interns salaries aren't all that bad in Silicon Valley. I wonder how much Daz pays its summer interns to work on Carrara. See Link.