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How long will DS4 be supported?

pixelquackpixelquack Posts: 390
edited June 4 in Daz Studio Discussion

Title says it all. [How long will DS4 be supported?]

Post edited by Richard Haseltine on

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  • RandWulfRandWulf Posts: 222

    Good question,  So much of Studio's capailities resides in DS4 an are not (at least yet) supported in Studio six

  • LeanaLeana Posts: 13,251

    The latest version of DS4 will remain available for download, but there won't be any new versions.

  • chris-2599934chris-2599934 Posts: 1,956

    I would guess that new plugins, scripts etc. will only be written to work with Studio 6. That's not to say that none of them will work in 4, but it won't be guaranteed.

    Of course a lot of plugins and scripts that you currently have, and that are currently sold in the store, only work in 4, so you might be running the two versions in parallel for a while.

  • pixelquackpixelquack Posts: 390

    Haven't thought of new plugins/scripts yet. So this leaves us with two ecosystems where one will start crumbling soon and one will have holes either by plugins and scripts not ported because the PAs won't or are not around anymore or are behind a subscription barrier. Plus 6 is still having issues like viewport lag and to me doesn't bring any significant improvement that justify Premier or even commitment to 6.

     

  • ServantServant Posts: 769

    Leana said:

    The latest version of DS4 will remain available for download, but there won't be any new versions.

    As long as it's a stable version with all (or most) of the bugs resolved, that's fine.  I wish they had kept previous versions (DS2, DS 3) available rather than vaulted. Having multiple lower-end versions of DS would have been great for potato rigs for one the go or as "gateway" options for newer hobbyists.

  • LeanaLeana Posts: 13,251

    Servant said:

    Leana said:

    The latest version of DS4 will remain available for download, but there won't be any new versions.

    As long as it's a stable version with all (or most) of the bugs resolved, that's fine.  I wish they had kept previous versions (DS2, DS 3) available rather than vaulted. Having multiple lower-end versions of DS would have been great for potato rigs for one the go or as "gateway" options for newer hobbyists.

    They did keep them available for years. They are likely vaulted now because leaving them available means distributing a version of 3DL and Daz doesn't have the license for that anymore.

  • ServantServant Posts: 769

    Leana said:

    Servant said:

    Leana said:

    The latest version of DS4 will remain available for download, but there won't be any new versions.

    As long as it's a stable version with all (or most) of the bugs resolved, that's fine.  I wish they had kept previous versions (DS2, DS 3) available rather than vaulted. Having multiple lower-end versions of DS would have been great for potato rigs for one the go or as "gateway" options for newer hobbyists.

    They did keep them available for years. They are likely vaulted now because leaving them available means distributing a version of 3DL and Daz doesn't have the license for that anymore.

     Yeah, I get that the last version of DS 4 doesn't have 3Delight support due to the licensing and, moving forward, new versions of DS like DS 6 won't either. I'm just saying it would have been nice to have them around.

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