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Sadly, we must leave Daz behind

Ulysses HeartUlysses Heart Posts: 43
edited April 2021 in The Commons

My whole shop works on Mac Pros. We've had to update to Mac OS 11 for a myriad of other 3D applications we use. For an 8-person 3D and animation shop to have to switch to Bootcamp everytime we want to use Daz in our workflow just is not an option when Blender, Maya, ZBrush and everything else we use is fully compatible with Mac OS 11. And we can't wait till "mid 2021" – we're working at top speed on six projects. I'm assuming this was a Daz business decision based on – I guess – the fact that they felt revenue from Mac users was not worth it. However, we've bought over $12k worth of Daz content over the past 7 years... content we'll have to leave behind, except the content we've ported to Blender.

I'm sad. Daz was a great application for us. But we're moving on.

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  • FSMCDesignsFSMCDesigns Posts: 12,781

    best of luck to you! You do know thre are bridges to allow for use of DAZ assets outside of DS right?

  • Ulysses HeartUlysses Heart Posts: 43

    Yes, thanks. We've ported a lot of our content to Blender. But right now we're under a deadine and will have to use a Windows machine to go back and bridge the rest.

  • IceCrMnIceCrMn Posts: 2,147

    Wow, You guys performed an in place OS swap out in a production environment while you had accounts open and projects still being worked on?

    I've heard about this type of thing, never thought I'd meet someone who actually did it.

    Good luck, you going to need it.

  • Ulysses HeartUlysses Heart Posts: 43

    IceCrMn said:

    Wow, You guys performed an in place OS swap out in a production environment while you had accounts open and projects still being worked on?

    I've heard about this type of thing, never thought I'd meet someone who actually did it.

    Good luck, you going to need it.

    Not sure what you're referring to here. You think it's unusual that we upgraded our machines to Mac OS 11 in the middle of projects? We ALWAYS are in the middle of projects, year round. We tested OS 11 with all of our main applications – ZBrush, Blender and Maya. They all run like lightning on Mac OS 11. So, yeah we made the decision to upgrade because we wanted the increased performance of OS 11. There is no time when we're not working on anything. We've had zero issues. It's much faster than OS 10 with ZBrush and Blender. No problems except Daz. Out of the 12 core applications we use, it was the only one that we have to drop due to compatibility issues.

  • hacsarthacsart Posts: 2,029

    In my expereince in IT, OS/major app upgrades are usually done in parallel to the production environment, running on identical hardware, after a standalone testing period, also on identical hardware. In my 35 year career in IT I had never seen an inplace upgrade in a production environment.  Serious backups and a tested backout plan would be a big  part of the eventual migration to production. I think that's what is being implied in the previous reply..

    However, in a small shop, with liited IT budget and resources, I can see it being worth the potential risk..

  • GhostofMacbethGhostofMacbeth Posts: 1,673

    Just curious why you had to switch OS

  • RuphussRuphuss Posts: 2,631

    who is we ?

  • FishtalesFishtales Posts: 6,162

    Ruphuss said:

    who is we ?

    See post #1

  • Richard HaseltineRichard Haseltine Posts: 102,730

    Closing this - the user has posted thier situation, cross-examining them over their decision serves no purpose.

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