I just got the DAZ deal on Carrara/Transposer a few days ago and I'm im pressed with it. I've also been a Vue user for a long time, first version was Vue 2, last version Vue 5 Pro Let me do a side by side comparisment. Modeling: Carrara outshines Vue by far. Only true boolean operations are worth it. Vue lacks all of the needed modeling tools, while Carrara incorporates them. Poser import: Vue many crashes, Carrara none yet. When importing larger poser scenes, Vue gets very very very slow, Carrara still responds well. Terrains & skies: both are just as good, different setup, but both excellent. Plants & trees: Vue has real plants, Carrara doesn't. Vue has great trees, Carrara has good to great trees. But Carrara allows for much more editing of trees and you could probably even turn some of them into plants. UI: Vue's interface takes time to get used to, I like Carrara's setup, it's much closer to Poser. Features: Carrara has many many many more. The standard version comes even close to Vue Infinite. Carrara standard even has a sort of ecosystem and it works great, even with Poser figures. Need an army of 100's of Roman Poser figures roaming the forest? Carrara can do it, with just a few mouse clicks. Vue 5 Esprit or Pro cannot do it. Rendering: this is the big one...... Rendering poser figures with Vue and having them look good is a challenge. After doing a couple of poser characters renders in Carrara they look great without a lot of work. But Vue clearly has some more advanced rendering features, which I never used, I'm not prepared to wait 24hrs or more for my render to complete. Rendering Poser figures in Vue can consume a lot of time even withoout the fancy settings. Carrara is much faster and has a good number of impressive rendering features also. Animation: Carrara beats Vue easily. Animated Poser figures import without a probklem. Much better toolset for animating, I'm pretty sure Carrara standard even beats V5I easily in this area. Extra features: Vue simply lacks them. Carrara has all of them. Vertext & nurbs modeling, Particles, Volumetric clouds, impressive selection of different kinds of lights are just a few. But the main difference is stability. Vue is so instable and akward to use, especially when it comes to larger scenes, that I've stopped using it. Vue and Poser communicate terrible at times. I've only used Carrara fora few days, but it's rock solid and communcates well with Poser. For the money you spent, you get much more for your money when you buy Carrara. Vue is a landscape / outdoor generator. Carrara is a modeling suite. Capable of doing outdoors scenes and landscapes just as well as Vue, but with the addition of good indoor scene creation and handling also. Comparing the two I can only say that Vue is completely overpriced if you pay the full price for it. Carrara gives you something that's worth your money.... Vue gives you a headache.

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