operaguy: Get the XL Bundle (Advanced Render, NET 3, MOCCA, Thinking Particles), add Hair,  and you should be set.  That'll be $2590.  If you call MaxonUSA (if you're in the US) and talk to Rafi, you might be able to swing a discount price.  She is really great about that sometimes. :)

It is definitely a step up from $300 for Poser, but you get a very powerful 3D system that is only getting better and better.  Maya is a steep learning curve with a steep price and geared towards studio work.  Max is, hmmm, strange.  It's buggy, only Windows, mainly used by game developers, horrid interface, and still costly.  LW3D is falling apart - ne'er more on that.  XSI would be the only viable alternative to C4D.

MatrixWorks:  Just seems funny that it took sooo long to attempt this level of Poser support in Carrara (sister to Poser in a sense).  I have Carrara 5 Pro w/Transposer and it is not a bad little 3D application.  Just that with Cinema 4D, I don't use Hex, Carrara, Shade, Vue much at all.  Vue is probably the best landscape-foliage-atmosphere app out there, but to combine everything you really need VueXStream which is a bundle/bungle all by itself as going from Vue to Cinema you can't use Ecosystems.

Mainly I was making notification that C6 isn't going to be the first on the block to do it.  We'll have to see how great this is (can DAZ get it right?).

Robert

C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot. C++ makes it harder, but when you do, you blow your whole leg off.

 -- Bjarne Stroustrup

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