Both are landscape renderers, plant generators, ecosystem builders, and so on. In addition to demos check galleries, especially those of artists who post in both. I've got one scene I rendered in both: 'Temple Furrette :) (furred nudity)': Carrara | Vue Give a look to the landscapes comparred against each other, and to interior shots against each other. Vue has better light effects, true ray tracing, and volumetric atmospheres. Carrara regular includes these things: Carrara regular includes these things:

• A spline modeler
• A nurbs modeler
• A metaball modeler
• A particle generator
• Nothing beats Vue's plants up close, but you have to get a plugin or buy infinite to make your own. A plant designer comes with Carrara regular.
• An ecosystem (only in Vue infinite)
• Anything glows (see my 'Space Vixen')
• Shaped lights - the source of light is not one point, but an area you shape
• ability to repose and rebone a figure from within Carrara - no reimport needed.
• Ability to make morphs with the vertex modeler (which while sub-par elsewhere, is the best morph maker -I- have used).
• better terrain generation, and easier to tweak (however Vue's choice of a default zero-edge peak is nicer).

Further Carrara has these things also seen in Hexagon, but not in Vue: - A primitive Vertex modeler (Hexagons is vastly better)

• A UV mapper (Hexagon's is better I hear)

Vue's light effects are render time, Carrara's are done post work. One failing of Carrara's is that if there is anything between the course of the effect and the camera the effect will fail, even if the something between is fully transparent. For me, this is one of the major reasons Vue is a better renderer. I do a lot of light efects.

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