Just a few comments/questions:

It looks like. IMHO, your image from Shade is composited. I'm not saying it is, in fact, I am taking you at your word and believe it isn't, but there are some issues with what appear to be inconsistent shadows that make it look like the figure was added to the image. Note the strong shadows on her right leg, and the shadow of her left hand are fairly strong, but I don't see any similar shadows on the floor. My guess is that this may also be due to very poor lighting, shader settings on the floor, or possibly some odd effects caused by your "vampire effect"???

Can you pose your DAZ3d figures in shade, or are they static object imports? If importing/posing is possible, can you import Genesis figures and retain all of the morphs/JCM's, and have seamless use of clothing/etc. so that the figures are as functional in Shade3D as in DS and Carrara? If not, then I think for the most part it would be a downgrade compared to Carrara for me (or most other content users). I've never needed the Vampire effect, so not a big deal here (though it sounds as if it can be done in Carrara anyway), and Carrara render nodes have always functioned flawlessly for me, so also not a big issue (sometimes I need to manually set up ports or do some other network management, but not a big deal for me, since I've done similar things for about 30 years - you have noted in another thread that you have great computer skills, so I would think that using Carrara's render nodes would be equally easy for you).

I hesitate to mention this, as I don't like to say anything negative about someone's art. But to be honest, the lighting and shaders in the image you posted above are less than inspiring. Yes. I have seen some amazing renders done with Shade3D, but if this is the either the "out of the box" image quality, or even an image with modestly tweaked shaders and lighting, I think I will pass on Shade3D. I get much better results with DAZ Studio "out of the box", and why change to Shade3D as a replacement for Carrara when I would have to redo all of the shaders anyway?? Not trying to slam your work here, as this may be what you are wanting, and that's fine, but it's not my style (and before you start flaming my "art", like you did Diomede's work, I know I'm not an artist, I just try to do the best I can to get images I like, and even though we may have different styles, from your image it looks like it would require just as much work as Carrara to get my "style").

Finally, I must be looking in the wrong places. It seems that the most recent version of Shade3D, Shade3D 18, is not available in English. I could find Shade3D 16 for sale in English, and a post on their website that said Shade3D 17 would not have an English version. So does that mean there is no English version available for the last two versions (17&18)? If so, it's definitely not something I would even begin to consider as a Carrara replacement, since I don't speak/read Japanese.

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