Quote - Unfortunately, I'm not finding life with learning Carrara to be that easy.  When materials do import from Poser-friendly stuff, they look really bad when rendered.  The material poses (in pose folders) usually do not apply in Carrara. In at least one instance, even a Daz Studio friendly character for V4/Genesis I tried looked like materials aren't even apply to the right material zones. I need to investigate that more... I haven't had a lot of time... Not a very happy experience so far. I won't be giving this program much more time. Maybe two weeks, at best...

Sorry you're having a hard time.

I'm hoping you stick with Carrara, because once you get it, you WILL like it.

It took me awhile to even go into the shader room. I initially found it confusing. I STILL don't really understand UV and how to use the mixers or any of that.

What I do know is how to swap out shaders and THAT is powerful. I took old props, some freebies, swapped the shaders it came with with Carrara shaders and WOW what a difference.

I admit, I have pretty much running and gunning and really haven't FULLY utilised Carrara. I'm STILL very happy with it. 

If you stick with it, I think you will come round.