FINALLY! Someone who gets it...

Well, thanks.  I think.  Personally, I don't agree with the insults I read in this thread (a lot of them came from you, but some from others), but I do agree with the fact that Carrara has gone from a potentially outstanding general 3d application into what now feels like another Daz or Poser render agent. Since I don't do animation, I don't care where I render my Poser stuff.  There's plenty of great engines out there I can just export as OBJ.  When you think about it, Poser is the easiest way to pose the figures anyway (or daz studio), then as long as you don't need to animate, just export as OBJ to somewhere and render.  Sure you need to configure materials and textures, but once you set up a good skin material in your render engine of choice, you can just save it and reuse it.  It's not that time consuming.  So all this "integration" to me is a waste of resources, and actually pushed me away from Carrara a while ago.  Again, not bashing the software, just being honest.