jsmith8045,

I've been a been a long time Carrara user, all of my 3D has been made in it. I purchased Hexagon 1 and found it hard to adapt to, made up my mind to stay strcitly with Carrara... THEN came the announcement of Hexagon 2! After reading the new features and improvements they've made to Hexagon to I immediately pre-purchased the upgrade and have started working my way thru the tutorials again.

I think Hexagon 2 is going to be a true star in the 3d world following this upgrade. It will certainly match Silo, with it's new features, and, I think catch up to many of the more "professional" packaged such as 3ds Max.

I think Carrara is a great companion package a lot of Poser cross functionality. Many seem to see it as THE alternate renderer to Poser, and it has built in modeling functionality that is just a bit below Hexagon 2's.

Try everything tho adn see what suits you! Any 3d package is only as good as it's user, so you comfort with the interface and functions is even more important than the actual funtions. By that I mean it's sometimes easier for a user to utilize "work-arounds" for some functions than it is to work with an uncomfortable interface.

mike