I agree with Grendel on locking the thread. Though I hate doing that. Lets get back to the original topic.
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Im planig to buy softimage XSI foundation.
Is better that carrara pro, mabey, no ? Any one here have that 3d software I wanna be sure to make a good decision.
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The answer is yes and possibly no. XSI offers more flexibility but at the price of difficulty.
For instance, in Carrara when you shade an object its generally simple and straight forward. You can drop a preset on an object. Simply add a value to reflection and change the coloring. Then you pretty much have chrome. Pop in a light and voila! Render. In XSI its not necessarily more complex to duplicate the process, but just more flexible. You can adjust how the reflection occurs in greater detail, adjust the way light is reflected, if you want blurry reflections you have more options on creating it, for instances you could use the built in SSS node to blur the reflections. Can't do that in Carrara. Its all about options and interexchange ability.
Carrara is limited in its flexibility. Interface is another big example of this. Say you want to have the texture editor in the vertex modeler, you can't. In XSI you can create a window at the bottom and have the node editor, and another window above it to animate, then a window to adjust specific settings, and then have a floating palette with various preset tools. Tools which you created yourself with simple short scripts.
It depends on what you WANT to do. If you want to create simple still renders. I'd say that Carrara 5 Pro is the perfect option. If you wish to animate. Then I'd definetly recommend XSI as it offers a much more flexible toolset for film production.