Sorry that my depth of knowledge is short of answering your questions in full. However. My understanding is that the Carrara rendering,texturing and lighting is probably superior to Posers. I import the very basics necessary from Poser and work on them in Carrara. It's something I have regularly done even when Transposer 1 became available. I have very few problems--certainly never felt a need to expect Eovia to change things. What they have done has been a surprise and great pleasure. I have had Poser from several versions back and I find working to the maximum in Carrara is more fulfilling than keeping up with the different way of doing things developing in Poser. To me now, Poser is just a handy "plugin"!

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