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All working ok on my iPad .. Apart from the what's hot ticker which I can't swipe without it shaking uncontrollably before moving back to it's original position.
I'm on iOS 8. Something
I just got a "personalised" email that included the term...
a team [of] our brightest product-selecting monkeys to help you find some great additions to your content library. Use coupon code: etc etc etc
What is a product selecting monkey? And if it's so personal, why didn't they offer me something based on my browsing history (which I do when logged in). The items were nothing that I have ever browsed or even similar.
Really weird marketing! They could improve this very easily, and I'd probably take them up on it if it was something I was actually thinking about or similar.
:-/ Silene
One never know what those monkeys will pull next, eh? :ahhh:
I got a monkey message, too, with the same sort of "recommendations" from the "brightest" monkeys.
I'd like to see what my cat (who is completely uninterested in my 3D efforts) could come up with!
I agree with Silene.
Dumb monkeys!
Dumb monkeys!
Well, I've had brothers that work with monkeys and the rumors are true about what they like to fling at folks. That being said, they are pretty good at marketing, so I'm thinking DAZ's product selecting monkeys were on the wrong end of the experiments at the science lab, which could explain why DAZ picked them up cheap.
Just further proof that DAZ needs to stick to just selling 3D stuff in a store. They can't program to save their lives and they certainly cannot market properly.
back on topic :) I have had to re-write this several times because I don't want it to come across as an attack, and its so hard to convey in words at times without doing that.
You come into the site, fresh and while you get the sales pages, whats hot, you get a long nice rundown with DS, you even get pointed out on other packages to compare to DS such as.. Maya, lightwave, Max.. but no Carrara there, nothing but the page talked about above.
Really it comes down does Daz want to do things with Carrara or not. I am glad we got a minor update with 8.5, I am grateful for that.
You go to the main page, nothing about anything but Daz Studio (which at least as far as I can tell you can't mouse around the viewport, but you can now kinda do first person shooter keyboard commands with the 4.7 update). DS is getting lots of love and attention yes it is selling the bread and butter content, but Carrara was years ahead and falling behind in a lot of areas now, more maintenance, a bit of minor content compatibility kinda sorta. You can export portions better in poser than Carrara of premade content to things like 3d-coat. I wrote asking if I could get some info on the preferences file so that I could re-arrange the run-times since I started using DIM instead of structuring the installs into a meaningful madness, is the only way to keep all the folder structures from keeping you from finding anything. I was thinking of even writing a utility, but I got back, sorry that is not intended to be edited by hand, and there it is we are not putting in a simple sort or re-arrange for you. When Fenric tried to do some things that would allow going to 3d-coat like GoZ does using applink the stuff isn't available in the API.
if you go to the video tutorials http://www.daz3d.com/help/help-daz-3d-video-tutorials/ no Carrara listed, you can click on bryce and you can at least get links to the tutorials for sale for Bryce, but there is no Carrara there. if you go at it through the store you can get to the Carrara tutorials, but they are not all there (only 3), most of them are not there. Even with taking off the hide checkmark. Typing in Carrara tutorial at least has them showing up.
I understand it takes time and this is a major update to the site, but I think that sometimes who ever has the vision for this needs to come at it like a customer. Is there a Carrara Advocate in the Management structure?
I think I need another re-write of this.. I don't want to come off as whining, or angry, being confrontational, an attack, or that I don't like Daz. I am here because I LIKE using Carrara and I believe in the possibilities of its future and what I want to do with it, and what others can do with it.
I do like a lot of the things in the new site, I like knowing what I need when I purchase something, or if I already have it. Less clicking on checkout! (I can't tell you how many times I forgot the last step on some freebie and missed it before LOL!) I even like the concept of DIM (though a 500 meg download for a 2k fix is sigh) LOL.
please take this in the spirit intended. I love you guys (and gals) just trying to express while rather poorly a particular customers perception.
Well said, Milo.
Sorry if I came off sounding too harshly in the quoted post. It's just that Carrara is such an easy thing to get hyped about, if you've ever really got into it. Just seems to me that it would be really easy to make it look really sweet here, in the store pages - especially to someone looking to get into some new software - or at the very least - looking for Carrara directly.
I suppose not all marketing schemes go over well. I still snicker about the Chevrolet Nova (A General Motors car from 1962-1988). It was a nice lower mid priced automobile.
However, Hispanic speakers immediately identified that the translation of Nova (No va) - means - "It will not go".
Not exactly a promotional strategy one wants to see from their marketing department selling to Spanish speaking countries. :)
I suppose not all marketing schemes go over well. I still snicker about the Chevrolet Nova (A General Motors car from 1962-1988). It was a nice lower mid priced automobile.
However, Hispanic speakers immediately identified that the translation of Nova (No va) - means - "It will not go".
Not exactly a promotional strategy one wants to see from their marketing department selling to Spanish speaking countries. :)
Not actually true, however: http://www.snopes.com/business/misxlate/nova.asp
Not actually true, however: http://www.snopes.com/business/misxlate/nova.asp
Interesting - never knew that - thanks for the notification of that fact. :)
However, when I lived in San Antonio Texas (about 60% Hispanic) back in the 1970s - the Chevy No-va was the brunt of many jokes. :)