Well said.

Let me be clear here that I'm glad to see that Luxrender is becoming a part of Carrara.  When Carrara expands itself, we (the user community) benefit.  I have dreams that someday, Carrara will become a package that will be used in a much larger professional community.  The only way for that to happen is if Carrara can do more things that can serve the needs of more users.

I will try my scene in Luxrender but I will wait for it to go beyond beta.  It sounds very early to be making practical comparisons just yet.  The translation of materials sounds like it has a few miles to go.

I am very much looking forward to it!

My main goal of this post was to see if I could produce something that looked similar to the Luxrender example posted over at the using the Carrara engine (and the result I cooked up was interesting).

Im anxious to see more of everything!

-Kix