DAZ Studio 4 - A Qt behind the others

hjake

I was looking through the program files for something today and popped open Designer. Wow has Daz Studio 4 had a long run. The interface is run on Qt version 4.8.7 which was last updated in December of 2011. Lucky 13 years ago. It is doing pretty good for a senoir software citizen although I think senility might have set in.

 

Will the elusive Daz Studio 5 be built on Qt 6 LTS?

https://wiki.qt.io/Qt_version_history
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Qt-4.8.7-Qt4-Update-Released
https://wiki.qt.io/Qt_4_versions
 

Tomhip

What do you mean? At 13yo it is still in school and studying to become a proper software in future :D

Richard Haseltine

In order to maintain the SDK (plug-in) compatibility the Qt version used could not be changed. Part of the reason for a new major version (DS5, or whatever it is called) is to upgrade to a newer version of the Qt framework - with the unavoidable breaking of plug-ins and some scripts - while DS4 will remain available in our product libraries for backward compatibility.

crosswind

Latest QT version is 6.8. Not sure but I guess DS5 is developed with QT 5... like Marvelouse Designer. QT 7 is approaching...

Omniflux

See this post in the Daz Studio 5 development update thread for "the official word" on next QT version to be used.

 

crosswind

Omniflux said:

See this post in the Daz Studio 5 development update thread for "the official word" on next QT version to be used.

 

Ah, hah... Richard said it would not use QT5, and then you said QT8 (kidding?). So,nearly 3 years passed, what version are they using, or nothing happened?

Richard Haseltine

I beleive theya re targeting Qt 6 (note that the t is lower-case).