Lamps in Vue?

Look at this:
See the lamp in the back

Is that what you mean?

Note, I did -NOT- spend $250 on Carrara just for the opportunity to be able to trash it in comparrision to Vue. I would much rather have no complaints with what amounts to a large purchase for me.

Its just that for the rendering, and rendering alone, I haven't found anything yet I can't do in Vue, but I do seem to keep finding things I can do in Vue that I can't find ways to do in Carrara.

Outside of the renderer, sure, Carrara is a nice modeler. But many of its features need to be rendered in Carrara, far as I can tell, like the replicator for example. That becomes increasingly frustrating as those are the tools that motivated my purchase. I know 3D as an artist, I've been at it for 7 years now. I want to learn to be a modeler as well now, but in doing so I don't want to have lose access to my skills as an artist. I see some amazing things in Carrara, but they keep showing up as not compatable with the various lighting tricks I enjoy - and as any photographer will also tell you, it is -all- about the lighting. An image or a photo is nothing with bad lighting, and everything with good.

While I am -VERY- gratefull for the solutions that have been posted here to some of the issues, I am also frustrated by the nature of the reponses to some of the others (and especially at eovia3d - some have simply suggested that that kind of light work is not what a person should be doing, or otherwise been flip in denying the issue rather than helping me solve it or work around it - which has in turn motivated some 'comments in haste' on my part), and frustrated where or when there seems to be no solution.

If I could export everything, I might not care that Vue seems to have notably superior lighting package (and possibly renderer).

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