dr_bernie posted at 10:43AM Sun, 29 July 2018 - #4272983

Kixum posted at 4:47AM Sun, 19 June 2016 - #4272977

I guess I'm a little confused. If all you want to do is render Daz content, why isn't Daz studio a passable option?

Very good question.

I want to go way beyond rendering contents.

I want to experiment with dazzling special FX'es, physics and get very high quality renders at a blink of an eye. Daz Studio and Carrara are unfit. for this kind of work.

Possible candidates:

Houdini: At $ 199.- per year it's a steal of a deal, but it's too hard to learn. It's for pros, not hobbyists.

Cinema4D: Excellent package but you need the full studio version - a $3800 deal - to do FX'es and particles and physics and things like that. That is way out of my price range.

Strata 3D: Excellent package. Relatively easy to learn. It has a $19.- monthly subscription plan that you can cancel at anytime. It is more suitable for a photoshop / illustarator / Strata3D pipeline, but it might work with Daz/Poser content. It has an excellent modeler too, in the Hexagon / Silo league.

Cheetan3D: At $99.- it's a literally jaw-dropping deal. It can be viewed as C4D's little brother. It has a particularly well implemented Bullet physics engine with real time simulations, real time particles, a modeler that almost matches Hexagon and Silo features, 2 built-in renderers one of which uses Intel's Embree and is super-fast and, from what I have seen so far, its render quality is superb.

I am right now evaluating Cheetah3D for some possible hobbyist projects. From what I have seen so far it beats Carrara hands-down in almost every respect. Its only 'weakness' is that it is Mac only, so Windows users are left in the cold.

More on Cheetah3D later.

Funny, you state that DS and Carrara are unfit for your needs, but yet you return here again, and again, and again, dissing DAZ and Carrara. Maybe it's time to get on with your life and your pursuit of what ever it is in 3D you want to do. If you insist on returning here over and over, maybe you should also show what you can do with these other apps, not what others have done. All I see from you is a lot of talk, and very little, actually almost no examples of what you can do, other than read marketing hype and reference others work(s). If you were to provide a real alternative to Carrara and DS that can actually use DAZ3D content as easily as DS and Carrara, I would be interested, but so far your posts have been just digs mostly on Carrara, and some what on DS, disguised as sharing viable alternatives (that really aren't).

As far a Genesis 3/8 in Carrara, there are ways to get the figures into Carrara, just no official support from DAZ3D. The same can be said for Maya, iClone, Blender, Shade 3D (which you make indication that you like a lot, yet example results from** you** are quite scarce as well), etc.. But yes, you can get G3/G8 into Carrara. There are actually several different ways to do it .... but I don't think you really care about that, you seem to just be here to get a rise out of Carrara users.

Seriously "dude" (to use one of your favorite terms from a recent troll...ummm....I mean post), I do think you need to move on, it's beginning to look very sad that you can't let go.

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