Why would a modern artist voluntarily downgrade? Surprisingly, there are several valid reasons.
: Significant speed and memory consumption improvements were made to this system during the 4.6 era.
: Support for Pixar’s OpenSubdiv for high-performance modeling and Disney’s Ptex for UV-less texture mapping.
installer built directly into the standalone installer (phased out after version 4.7). : Many users in the Daz 3D community forums