Peggy - I kept Carrara 5 Pro around precisely for the advanced NPR plugins. In particular, the control I can get on silhouettes, wireframes and overall 'cel shading' look. It is easier to set up an NPR scene in Carrara than Vue since you can do it as a global render setting instead of a per-material setting. The other side of the coin is that you may end up with issues in some areas of your scene if you have a complicated scene (global settings don't always play nice locally). It's really a matter of what kind of scene you are after. I can get away with Vue's toon shaders most of the time (even better now that Vue can handle Poser toon shaders) but I like to have Carrara available for that 10% of the time where I need something that Vue cannot provide yet (like nice object outlines or better control of wireframe rendering).

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