Quote - Would yo ube willing to pay a few hundered dollars MORE for poser if they did?

Odds are, that's how much the license would cost.

Why bother w/ Vue's? It's nice, but 3Delight is far, far cheaper, and does everything Firefly does (and then some) - much faster. BTW - yes, 3Delight has Ambient Occlusion and such (and it can be implemented in D|S - pwSurface does a little of that w/ AO now).

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Quote - Carrara must be the smallest place in the 3d universe because the microscopic Poser imports are giants in comparison to Carrara content.

That may be a pre-scaling thing. Poser meshes are typically 1% the size of a std. per-unit size in most modellers, so C6 may accidentally be overcompensating for that (or more likely there's a switch flipped wrong in the import scaling section of your setup :) ).

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Quote - If you turn down quality low enough, and use unrealistic-enough lighting, you can render very quickly in Vue.  It takes math to do global illumination, which is one big reason Vue renders slower - it does GI, Poser does not.

Indeed - I love GI; and Vue 5 renders (on the Mac anyway) runs at a fairly respectable speed, even on my G5 rig. OTOH, it's a one-way shot - once you import, you'd better really like the pose and morphs...

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Quote - The only problem with the Poser/Vue integration idea is that one shader scheme would pretty much have to be scrapped

Keep Vue's - it actually makes sense when you use it, w/o all the spaghetti. Opinions ab't Poser shaders aside, it also makes technical sense to keep the shader that already works w/ the renderer.

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Quote - I actually own the older C4PRO
and the outdoor stuff come im still seeing in CP6 is nowhere near
the realism that I can get in  my Vue6 easel

You're talking ab't the diff between Vue's primary focus (environments) and Carrara's (more towards animation and rendering, with a whole suite of other features included). C1.1 (my latest version) has no such thing as a terrain generator or atmospheres, etc.

Honestly - if Vue had a better importer and a way to actually composite/morph/pose figures in-app? I would've jumped that way ages ago. As it is, they don't.

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Me, I'll plonk down for a copy of C6 when time actually permits, then play with it a bit. Until then, I have no judgements on the proggie itself, though if it does what the feature list says it does, it'll be sufficient for me to delete Poser from my disks; something that hasn't occurred for ab't 7+ years now.

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