Yes I see the requests for C9 and suggestions for C9 but considering it is suposedly going to be out first quarter next year; although we are all painfully aware you can't go by what DAZ says, the question is, just what if anything can DAZ do with carrara in that amount of time, considering how long C8.5 was in beta and how bad the release finally was.

So lets start with simple things like, remove all the strings. I don't think the functionality of anything in carrara should be dependent on if you have an external app running. So cut all CMS dependent features, ether make them function indapendently or just drop them. Yes, I am pointing to autofit and genesis posing.

Fix reatures that genesis/autofit screwed up. Some times DAZ reminds me of a little kid that likes to show off his toys yet not let anyone else play with them. As in not being able to simply duplicat figures{cr2/DUF}. Carrara can do it, DAZ just wont let you.

Like modeling autofit items in the assembly is so protected that you can't do the one thing that can easily fix poke through; which is something I use modeing in the assembly room for a lot with the mil4 figures. Not only do you have to turn off protected topoligy, you can't; or atleast I couldn't, make the necessary morph to make a fit morph to fix the poke through. I don't know what DAZ is so pariniod about but apparently DAZ doesn't want us playing with DAZ's toys. I can only assume that some how doing this brakes the DUF figure.

New features for C9 are easy enough, Like I have said just check my list for C6.

The 2 new featues I like to see are what everyone else wants, dynamic cloth, and softbody figures.

But more then anything I'd like to see some buff and polish. Fix all the little annoying bugs; or as many as posable. Make exsiting features run smoother and update them. Do a rework of the interface; nothing drasic or Studio like. Just changes to make the work flow smoother; like moving the 0morphs, 0pose back to the general tab. Just make it another drop down like paramiters, view, general. That way it would be a more carrara like change and less like studios menu, burried in a menu, burried in a tool bar, that you don't have turned on.

Despite the requests from some folk DAZ please, I beg of you, keep your hands off the render engine.