@ diomede:

Who cares what you are currently learning or doing? You are off-topic mister. The topic of this thread is to see if Carrara can do a vampire effect in a complex scene. So far all I have seen were 2 (unacceptable) entries. This is proof that Carrara can't handle vampires. I have submitted my own entry, done with Shade3D with a few mouse clicks, to prove that Shade3D can handle vampires gracefully, in a very complex scene. I could add a dozen more vampires, and Shade3D won't blink.

If you have a solution for the vampire effect in Carrara, a solution that scales to dozens of vampires in a complex surrounding, please post here, otherwise go start your own thread.