Quote - Hi all,

Sorry if people think this is not a direct Poser question. I'm thinking of buying either Vue 5 or Carrara 5, I want to create scenes to put my Poser characters into. I have Bryce 5.5 but there are limitations with this package when it comes to Poser figures. Regarding Vue & Carrara, could you Poser people out there who use these programs give me an honest opinion on which is the best package when it comes to importing Poser figures & creating a scene with them, this would also include light work & maybe posing as well, to which renders the best.

At the moment my interest is with Carrara 5 because of transposer but I've also heard that Vue creates better scenery, or am I wrong?  I can't seem to get the Carrara 5 demo to work on my system at the moment (unsure to the problem as my system should be capable of running it) so I can't judge for myself.

I was going to ask on the appropriate forums for Vue & Carrara but I thought I would first ask the Poser community as I would imagine you deal with Poser figures more.

Many thanks.

I don't know anything about Carrara.  But I did buy Vue Infinite on an educational discount
and I really like it.  I can create beautiful scenes with it and my Poser characters import
directly into view with all the textures and poses.  Plus what's neat about Vue is that
it works dierectly with Poser.  So I have Vue and Poser running at the same time.
That way if I don't like the way a character is posed, I can change the pose in Poser,
save the pz3 file, and Vue senses that I have changed the Poser file and asks me
if I want to import the changed file. Then it brings the character right in with the new
pose in the same position as it was before in view.  Really helps in tweaking the
scene just right.  Unless Carrara can do that too, I'd say Vue wins hands down.