I have Carrara 1.2, but haven't used it much yet. When I bought it it came with an older version of Amapi (5.2) I think, free. There are a lot of tutorials about using Amapi to make poser clothes. I think Amapi has a much steeper learning curve. You might try the demos. The new Carrara has even more modeling options than the premeir version. The last version of Raydream had a poser import filter I believe, but it had a slower render engine.