Raymen, The render speed seems to greatly increased. Carrara renders along really well. I havent done any benchmarks but I can visualy see a render speed increase. I think it renders a little better than RDS also. Now, As far as water...so so. I have created a lot of "Water" shaders and they look pretty good. I've never seen water from a MC product as good a Bryce. But Carrara does OK. The shader editor in Carrara is pretty much the same as RDS with a few new additions. For scale modeling I would recommend Rhino. That is the way to go for this type of modeling. I tried to use the RDS Vertex Modeler today and crashed it in about 2 minutes. That was the first time I tried to use it. I am working on a Anime figure and it has about 13k polygons right now. I tried a Detach Polygon command in the Vertex Modeler and Carrara freaked out and froze. So I dont know ... I went back to RDS right away for the modeling. If it were me I would use Rhino to model in and Carrara to render in. Carrara renders well. Check out the new Gallery here at Renderosity for a few images from Carrara. It under CG Gallery then Carrara/RDS on the right side bar. If you have anymore questions and/or comments - Post away. ;) Best regards, Clint PS - I like your image! Nice work.

Clint Hawkins
MarketPlace Manager/Copyright Agent

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