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Originally Posted by Reactor The art really has to be the winner in all of this. One of the best renders I've seen was done in Truespace 4, thanks to good lighting and great texture work. TS4 is nothing compared to either Carrara 5 or XSI, and yet, he managed an excellent piece of art. Keeping this in mind, any bit of software is perfect for the job (feature packed or not), if it helps create the art you want. |
I agree, but tools do matter as well, if they slow you down, that is.
IMHO, it would be much better to channel fanboy attitudes energy on massive and organized complaints to DAZ. Those things DO work if 1000 users post in 1 day that they want some answers and fixes !
@Medeamajic:
Sad thing about life is: You always get exactly what you pay for, period. Does anybody really needs proof for that ?
Example:
Please, read this "problem solving initiative" form one of the Carrara5 "developers" in answer to my
very serious issue/bug report :
http://www.daz3d.com/bugs/view.php?id=13309
If you cannot go there, for some reason, here is summary: I complained that soft shadows rendered on highest quality setting have banding issue and his suggestion is to try to create new object in my scene to avoid it, VERY, VERY LAME.
What this tells me? They DO NOT CARE. Nobody wants to rewrite part of the Ray Tracing engine in C5 becouse of one lousy complainer like me (if they do, I will be very, very impressed). They will leave it as it is and work on the features which will sell more copies of the next version of Carrara, I'm positive.
Now, comparing that kind of "care" to what has been integrated and invested into MentalRay alone, for example, is very biased in my opinion. I remember PeteExxtreme (forgive me Pete, if that was not you, sir) showed ONE single arhitectual interior render as an example, one time, to "prove" what can be done with Carrara. Fine.
Why there is no more of them ? Why every 5th render on CGtalk is interior and done in MetalRay? Why cannot I get more quality in Carrara in exchange for longer render times ? Becouse I paid $160 for it, that's why !
Mox is not a fanboy, only a user, who needs more power, quality and flexibility. And for more money he WILL get it. Go for it Mox
