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From Digital Carvers Guild:

Anything Goos, Anything Grows, Enhance:C, Shader Ops, Shaders Plus are the ones I'm using the most at the moment.

I love Shader Ops' Procedural Lock. I've been working on a series of renders to beef up my Carrara shader understanding. Procedural Lock keeps all the procedural details in place whenever I pose the figure. I was pulling my hair out until I found that little function. I've also had a ball seeing what I can apply Fake Fresnel to.

Enhance:C is loaded with tons of new shaders and shader functions. I can't stop playing with it.

Anything Goos and Anythig Grows are just fun. I have an alien plant creature I created for a group called New Worlds Project I was working on and Anything Grows really brought it to life.

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Inagoni plugins:

Shaper, Architools, Baker, Primivol, Veloute 2 and Replica are ones I have now.

I use Baker to bake the Procedural textures I create with DCGs shaders to texture maps to use in other apps. (I'm still working on refining this, but it will allow me to use Carrara as a texturing tool for other software as well. Cool.)

Veloute 2 adds even more shaders to Carrara. You can never have enough shaders.

Replica lets you randomize replicated objects.

I've only just got Primivol but so far it's performed well and adds that little extra something to fog, smoke, clouds and fire. A lot of smoke and fire on a very cloudy day. :)

I want to use Architools more, but I haven't had time to set down and work with it much. I've seen some very good models created using this plugin. Anything to speed up the modeling process is good in my book.

Replica is like a morphing cage you can use on your models. I use it for pokethrough. Dropping a cage on a figure and pulling a vertex of two is much quicker than adding a magnet or moving into the Vertex room.

There, happy now? :) I know I've said it already, but these plugins really have made Carrara brand new for me again. They broadened my creative horizons. They've been a breath of fresh air.