I prefer Vue over Carrara. I tried Carrara 5 Pro, but the complete lack of precise placement and scaling makes it pretty useless to me.
Carrara renders dynamic hair better than Vue, though.

The main advantages of Vue over Carrara (IMO) are:

• viewports. Very intuitive (in my opinion), easy to use, especially if you're used to a 3DS Max like user interface
• vegetation. Ecosystems are easy to use, and each plant/tree/rock generated by the ecosystem is different. You can create a complete garden with thousands of plants in minutes.
• scene complexity (only in 64 bits Infinite): on a 64 bits OS, I can easily create and render scenes with hundreds of billions (yes, billions, it's not a typo) of polygons. 30 hi-res Poser figures with hi-res textures? No problem.

If you're into massive scenes with lots of figures and complex environments, Vue is the way to go.

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