BT, I used RDS for a few years and it was hard for me switch over to the Carrara interface. I forced myself to use it and now that I am use to it..I like it better than RDS. As far as differances in RDS and Carrara: 1) Carrara has the MetaBall modeler built in. With RDS its a plug in. 2) Four Elements is standard with Carrara and a plug-in with RDS. 3) Carrara is very stable on my WIN98SE PC. RDS crashed every 15 minutes (if I worked it really hard). 4) The Shader tree has some new and better features. 5) The Vertex modeler works better in Carrara than RDS, IMHO. 6) The new GUI is much better, IMHO. ;) Im sure there are more things that Im not thinking of right now. If I come up with some I'll post them back. The new Carrara site has some information about upgrading from RDS to the "New" Carrara...You might wait and see how the product develops. They are talking about some really nice improvements down the road..but you never know. Im enjoying Carrara. Its a nice product. Clint

Clint Hawkins
MarketPlace Manager/Copyright Agent

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All my life I've been over the top ... I don't know what I'm doing ... All I know is I don't wana stop!
(Zakk Wylde (2007))

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