With all the Carrara users wondering when there will be a Carrara version with full Genesis 3 functionality, it is good that someone answers the question.

Well here is the answer: Genesis 3 will never work in Carrara, and here are the reasons:

1. Genesis 3's rigging and weight-mapping/weight-painting system is a new development originally done for Studio.

2. A sensible software project director would want to port the Genesis 3 codebase from studio to Carrara with as little modifications as possible, to minimize maintenance costs down the road.

3. Putting Genesis 3 in Carrara requires a complete rewrite of some critical parts in the Carrara's internals, in such a way that the Genesis 3 codebase remains as unmodified as possible while keeping compatibility with previous versions of Carrara. These rewrites must be done by a seasoned developer very familiar with Carrara's depths.

4. Carrara's developments are done mostly by inexperienced summer intern(s). The proof is that the latest 8.5.1.19 just smells like a sloppy job done by an intern.

Put the points 1 and 2 and 3 and 4 together and it becomes obvious that Genesis 3 in Carrara is a nearly impossible project.

Daz 'may have' some kind of Carrara prototype with some very embryonic Genesis 3 functionality, and Daz 'may have' made this prototype available to private beta-testers, and the private beta-testers 'may have' expressed a positive opinion about it, but that is a very very very loooooooong way to a stable robust production-ready Carrara with Genesis 3 functionality and full compatibility with previous versions of Carrara .

So, in one word: Quit dreaming, because it will never happen.