Much like Bryce and Hexagon, Carrara is a vestigial relic from a bygone era
that is at a developmental dead end.
LOL!!! Carrara has no future...none... and the most laughable thing about it
is the fact that Daz still Charges money for it at all.
Not supporting the latest FBX import formats or even Alembic makes it a non starter
as an import and rendering environment for modern Iclone/CC3 Avatars or even Daz's Own G3/8 figures.
@Chris9890:
To answer your central question ..yes Iclone with CC3 pipeline will replace everything you are doin in Daz studio plus
you have a realtime animation system with proper
human IK and the best audio based lip sync& facial animation tools unless
upgrade to the Camera based facial live mocap system.
And the new skingen system for CC3 Crushes the limited
paid Daz skinbuilder plugin from Zev0.
You will be able to completely migrate your existing Daz Character shapes(G1,2,3,8) clothing
,skin maps hairs & accesories over to iclone, as I have recently done ,after finishing my 93 minute feature lenght
movie animated with Iclone versions 5.5-6.5 and retargeted to Daz figures and sent to C4D to render.
Finally should you decide that the Iclone render engine does not suit your quality needs ,
there is an establish path to send your Iclone scense to the free UE4 engine
or Export from CC3 to Blender As I am now doing.
An investment Iclone is an investment in the future
And I strongly warn against wasting any time or money on end of life, dead dog, softwares like Carrara.