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Originally Posted by transient  To be honest I don't really see the benfefits of integrating Daz's products with Carrara except as a way of flogging their assets to Carrara owners. From what I can tell (please correct me if I'm wrong) there's no direct way to export from Carrara to Daz studio, or to Poser, Maya etc.
It seems Carrara is becoming more a place to host Daz content, rather than the affordable giant-killer it has a reputation for.
I've got no intention of getting Carrara so by all means take this with a grain of salt, but apart from the hair (which looks awesome) the focus seems to be to vertically market Daz's primary cash cows. |
Well, it seems to me that the Carrara developers are focussed on a general use 3D app but, having just been acquired by DAZ and having been bought by a lot of DAZ customers, they'd be crazy not to integrate it with other DAZ content/software as much as possible. I guess the question is one of priorities; which feature do you add/fix in Carrara for this version and which feature do you leave for the next update. I don't think they mean it to be another DAZ|Studio or Poser but I doubt they could have left off integrating DAZ content to the next upgrade, probably another 18 months from this release.
I bet that once the DAZ integration is done, that they'll move forward with more general features. They already have DAZ|Studio, Hex, and Mimic. Carrara is their flagship general purpose 3D animation app and a damn good and fast renderer. I'm guessing but I'd say that getting a good scene building/hosting app with a renderer was why they originally bought Bryce and then bought Eovia. Really, it is what they needed: if you are going to sell razor blades, you should sell the razor handles, shaving soap, aftershave, towels etc... too. So long term, I think you will see improvements in Carrara's general capabilities rather than just making it a content host.