What is interesting is that almost all the new hot features in Vue6 I are already in Carrara5.1 (cloud lab and all).  Except Carrara also has a fairly robust modeling tool set.  This seems to make Carrara too difficult for a lot of landscape artists to learn. As a user of both, I can say that Carrara took me much longer to master -- to the degree that I actually have masted the application, than Vue5 Infinite did.

To me, the only overwhelming positive for Vue Infinite is it's solidgrowth/ecosystem module, which is obviously a big factor for anyone primarily involved in large scale landscape creation.  The new Vue feature that most bothers me is the "nodelocked" aspect.  I formally addressed this to an e-on representative.  I kindly suggested that all users who were in the "normal" (not the "fast-track") upgrade path be given the "floating license" version -- as their copy of Vue5I was just that.

Odd, that a company which owes it's success to the shareware philosophy, now is firmly in the "we do not trust" marketing philosophy?