I'm right with you mickmca

I hope we both realize that the pioneering work on SSS, shaders and textures to get truly great skin fairly close up has not actually been done in Carrara.

I personally have also faced the fact that to approach my own criteria for accepability on strand hair, Carrara's render time comes back up close to Poser's -- but that's only for close ups.

What about dynamic clothes. I haven't tried it yet, have you?

All of these speed issues avoid one even more powerful argument: if justified, you can go 'up the ladder' on hardware with C5; it will respect dual core and dual processors. I have spoken to several tech people and it is possible that you can nearly triple render time by going from a fairly standard AMD 3500+ up to a (granted expensive) dual core/dual processor rig with Carrara.

I'd love to stay only in Poser. I honestly love the program. But I'm having to face the fact I will probably have to move all the way up to XSI, Max or Maya, or at least have to use Carrara (strictly as a lighting and render platform) for my Poser scenes/animations.

Please, let Poser 7 come out now and be my deus ex machina.

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Message edited on: 03/09/2006 13:53