@ chelseawilliams, Steve K., diomede: Thanks for your comments.

What I like about Shade3D's native renderer is its ability to create images with an 'opulent' atmosphere. I have looked at images produced by top-notch renderers like VRay or Maxwell or alike. They all look sensational, but they look 'cold', without any real atmosphere, like a painting done by a robot.

Please stay tuned for more in-depth reviews of Shade3D's features.

Please also note that this is not a 'Carrara-bashing' thread. Quite to the contrary. There are tasks that are handled better in Carrara than in Shade3D, and I will point them out as I go along. My goal in this thread is to provide some pointers on how to move-on from Carrara to another platform, for those users who wish to do so.