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I was not being flippant when I suggested Open Source Blender. It has great quick render engines and you can do everything a hobbiest needs to do in it for FREE!!! Now for Comics I do very quick stills with Daz Studio and most of the time, I do no use Iray. I use the Opengl render engine because of speed and because it does not destroy my cheap AMD laptop which has low specs and built in graphics. Daz Studio is great software for me for what it does (a still 2D creator). I also use Plasq Comic life 3. A great comic creator that does not break the bank. Is it perfect? No but it is easy to use and that makes it worth while for hobbiests to consiter. If Daz the company wants to get into animation it will have to take Carrara or Daz studio and actually bring them up to current standards which does not make them much of a return. What would you do if Daz went out of business? Operating systems are upgrading all the time and breaking things. Where does this leave the consumer? Closed source software is a dead end with no future, it is just too much outlay for no profit. Daz should just fix the bugs in their software and make a bridge like iclone has 3Dexchange. On the other hand: if I need to animate it is another story. I have Lightwave, Blender, Iclone and a few other tools that are geared toward animation. I tend to simplify my models when they are to be animated and make unseen skin dissappear so there is no poke thru. Bake in details for textures and expressions and small movements so they look alive. When you have too complex of a scene, it is too complicated to work on. I have tried animation and for the hobbiest it is just too much work. That is why I use iclone directx game engine animation! Iclone is so usefull to me with its premade animations and props. Iray in iclone is a huge mistake and is a complete resource hog!!! Simple and fast is always better in my humble opinion. I use the iclone trees with built in animations so they move and add soft wind and other sound effects, but if I had to do this with a still prop it is alot of work! It is just too much work animating stuff from scratch. If I was making money from this or if it was work for profit it would be a different story. Do we need new features? Or do we need things to just work? You will have to decide for yourselves and use your pocketbooks to vote what Daz should do. Just my 2 cents
For clarification, I have Iclone pro pipeline with 3DXchange and Character creator 3 pipeline.
When it comes to exporting animated Characters as FBX to other programs such as Blender or Lightwave etc, Iclone 3DX or CC3 does not transfer any more data than the built-in Daz studio FBX exporter.
The big caveat for most of the DS users is the JCM's/JCJ's and perhaps the HD morphs not exporting to other apps.
The Diffeo plugin is the best option at this time for Blender, for other external apps YMMV.
Also my experience working from home. Though I am not very disciplined when it comes to hours. I tend to work towards expectation, i.e. my manager expects I'll get X done by next Wednesday. It doesn't matter if I don't do any work for a week and then do it Tuesday evening! It'll take a while to calibrate management expectation against actual work completed. I realised I spend so much time not really being productive in the office, as well as a lot of time getting there and back (and expense). It's a real eye opener isn't it.
That's funny and probably universally true.