Yes! I'm always interested in that kind of information.

Sorry to see you go Mark, but I'm glad that the reasons are "all good".

I really enjoyed your rendering challenges, (glad you cross posted to the Daz Carrara forum or I might have missed them).

Hope to see you posting from time to time.

Cheers!

These are all pretty neat!

Are they accurate to the actual movie props?

What are you using for reference material?

Thanks versluis. Light and Shadows was the theme of a recent Carrara contest over on the DAZ Carrara forum. There were too many extra requirements for this image to qualify as an entry, but I liked the theme and created the image for my own amusement.

booksbydavid, your images are more than welcome. They really pop!

Neat!

It certainly wasn't my intention to offend. I mistakenly thought that the theme had been overlooked since it wasn't really emphasized in Mark's first post. I can see that I should have let him decide if an image was on theme or not. Please don't let my comment deter you from posting more of your excellent work.

Clarification please. Is the theme for images in this contest supposed to be "Disappointed"?

Is it me, or do many of the images have nothing to do with disappointment?

Although I'm enjoying the renders, I'm thinking that many readers did not notice the theme in the original post.

Filleted edges that intersect must all be selected before choosing the Fillet tool so that the intersecting corners are calculated correctly. Selecting edges individually with the tool will lead to bad corner geometry.

Disappointed.

Thanks Wonga!

Thanks DUDU. Sometimes less is more.

Sometimes I'm just to lazy to add more detail.

cjd posted at 2:47PM Sat, 12 March 2016 - #4260645

I thought the old Daz bug tracker was a great way to collect user input, and for users to work together to resolve or investigate issues. That was efficient in my opinion.

Obviously, the old bug tracker did not work for Daz for some reason. But when it was working, speaking for myself anyway, I thought it was really great. In fact I think they were one of the few software developers that had direct interaction to user feedback.

I agree totally with these points! From a customer's perspective, the old "Mantis" bug tracker was easily the best web feature that Daz ever had. I and others have asked Daz reps why it was discontinued, but the answers are never specific.

Now I'd like to get something off my chest that most likely can't be discussed in the Daz forum without being deleted.

/begin venting/

I have my own theory as to why the bug tracker is gone, but based only on my personal observations I could be all wet.

My thought is this: As Daz's management went through changes, the new people in charge didn't like the open nature of the bug tracker. The very things that made it useful to the customers worried the managers.

• An open bug list that customers could search to see if their bug was already reported, and any progress being made.
• A method for customers to collaborate in a meaningful way by adding troubleshooting info in a single location.
• A method for customers to collaborate directly with the developers to solve bugs.

Of these features, I think that the bug tracker was discontinued because;

One - it exposed all of the unresolved bugs that existed for years without resolution.

And two - it allowed the developers to directly communicate with the customers.

I have never seen any of the actual software developers post in the forums (only "Quality Assurance", and web support people), and I suspect that they are discouraged from doing so.

I also noticed, toward the last days of the bug tracker, that many of the developers who had been the most proactive in solving problems with the customers, were vanishing from the tracker's users list. While the issues that they were working on remained posted, the developer names that the issues were assigned to changed to a generic "user0001" (or something similar). I suspect that many developers were being laid off and the bug tracker was exposing this.

Nowadays Daz is almost completely locked-down, with only a select few "DAZ_" spokespeople in the forums. And those people will rarely answer a direct question or engage in a real dialog (they seem to prefer to make Pronouncements, then vanish back into the woodwork. The forum moderators are more accessible, but since they are not Daz employees, are usually as much in the dark as are the customers.

Having followed Carrara over from Eovia, where the company's CEO and developers would regularly chat with customers on their forum, I really miss the old days.

Due to the company's present opacity, and its history of sloth (we all know what "DAZ soon" means), it's almost impossible to predict Carrara's future. So, I'll just continue to use it until it no longer functions on my OS of choice.

/end venting/

Steve K. posted at 6:07PM Mon, 01 February 2016 - #4252558

de3an posted at 2:00PM Mon, 01 February 2016 - #4252476

This might have been a good entry, but it's not a new render, and I've posted it elsewhere.

Clever idea. I like the girder, did you do that in Carrara?

Yes, I modeled everything in the scene in Carrara (with a slight detour to Hexagon). The captioning was done with Comic Life. The idea is not mine, but my interpretation of a scene from the Futurama episode "Bendless Love".

Here's one of the reference images I used.

This might have been a good entry, but it's not a new render, and I've posted it elsewhere.

What's this all about? All I see is:

"Sorry! This is a private forum that you cannot participate in."