carrara's interface becomes sluggish as your scene becomes more complex. Even with it's crashes, I have managed to work on much larger scenes in Vue than in Carrara.

 

Agiel, I completely disagree with you here, I've encoutered the complete opposite. Vue 5 Pro completely stops responding on my system with large and complex scenes. Vue is very very slow with complex scenes on my system. I've also tried the Vue Infinite and that almost made me cry, it wasn't fun using it with complex scenes at all. I have yet to encounter a slower application then Vue.

Carrara 5 on the other hand is lightning fast, very stable and still responds well even with larger and complex scenes.

It even gets worse when importing complex models. Carrara has no problem handling complex models. Vue often crashes when importing complex  models and if you're able to import them Vue is no fun to work with anymore.

Vue's ecosystems are way more powerful than Carrara's replicators

Thats true, but at least I don't have to have to pay over 600 euros to get an ecosystem. It only cost me 100 euros and it gave me an application that comes very close to Vue Infinite and in many ways surpasses Vue Infinite.

Carrara 5 standard beats Vue 5 Studio Pro easily and yet it's full price isn't even half of it. Carrara has it's own ecosystem and even though it isn't as powerfull as Vue Infinite's, it;s still good and it's affordable.

I've been considering Vue Infinite a long time, but with my current Vue 5 Studio Pro experience and Vue Infinite's price, the consideration is no more. Vue Infinite features doesn't justify it's price anymore, while it's ecosystem is powerfull, Vue is lacking big time in other areas.

With Carrara coming to DAZ the whole game has changed now, especially for European users. DAZ pricing is in US dollars not in Euros, big advantage. E-On still charges me in euros and still uses the 1=1 conversion rate.

DAZ doesn't charge me taxes for downloads and according the laws of my country download applications are tax free. E-On on the other hand does charge me taxes for download applications at a rate that is even 2% above the highest rate in my country. On top of that I pay custom charges for the download. I do pay all of this E-On, while the law in my country states that there's no tax and custom charges for download products, regardless in which country the application was purchased.

The choice is becoming very easy this way.......

Carrara 5 ST cost me (if I had to pay the full price) 185 euros. Vue 5 Esprit cost me 185 euros also, but it's not as good as Carrara 5 ST. Vue 5 Studio Pro, more close to C5ST will cost me 415 euros, but still leaves me wanting for a lot of features.

So easy choice..... Carrara 5 ST and I've even got a semi-ecosystem.

Now in my case I'm considering Vue Infinite. Price 625 euro. On the other hand there's Carrara 5 Pro. Price 400 euros. Very comparable in features. While V5Inf has a fine ecosystem, it lack all the other stuff it should have at it's price. Vue5Inf has terrible modeling capacities, no particle system and animation leaves you wanting.

C5Pro on the other hand still has a good ecosystem, excellent modeling capacities, great particle system and good animation capacities.

Again the choice is Carrara, I'm getting more for my money. Vue's ecosystem alone isn't going to cut it. For Vue Infinite's price I would expect a lot more.

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