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Naes3d · 1st June 2007, 11:28

Carrara 5.1 and trueSpace 7.5 compare rather well, but the winner depends on your needs.

Carrara is better at certaain things, trueSpace at others. I here a lot of mention of VRay and I think it is fair to point out that VRay is not a standard feature of trueSpace 7.5. I was very vocal about my reservations concerning the way Caligari was marketing trueSpace. One of my major critiques was that VRay is not a feature of trueSpace. It is a plugin. The question that was asked was to compare Carrara to trueSpace. Some people are responding with comparisons of VRay to Carrara. It's like if I said that Carrara was better than trueSpace at animating because it can import animation from MotionBuilder (.fbx) and trueSpace can't.

Factor out VRay and Carrara wins IMO on producing better quality stills, but that is subjective. The realtime renderer is capable of very nice images without the wait time.

A big advantage Carrara has over trueSpace is that all of it's features are accessible through a single workflow. There are currently at least 5 different possible workflows in trueSpace.

trueSpace is definitely the application to watch out of the two, mainly because there isn't really any solid info about Carrara 6 to pin ones hopes on. From a philosophical point of view, there is something wrong with the idea that one may potentially have to wait til version 8 for version 7 to be finished.

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Naes3d Box modeling Join Date: Oct 2005 Posts: 231	Carrara 5.1 and trueSpace 7.5 compare rather well, but the winner depends on your needs. Carrara is better at certaain things, trueSpace at others. I here a lot of mention of VRay and I think it is fair to point out that VRay is not a standard feature of trueSpace 7.5. I was very vocal about my reservations concerning the way Caligari was marketing trueSpace. One of my major critiques was that VRay is not a feature of trueSpace. It is a plugin. The question that was asked was to compare Carrara to trueSpace. Some people are responding with comparisons of VRay to Carrara. It's like if I said that Carrara was better than trueSpace at animating because it can import animation from MotionBuilder (.fbx) and trueSpace can't. Factor out VRay and Carrara wins IMO on producing better quality stills, but that is subjective. The realtime renderer is capable of very nice images without the wait time. A big advantage Carrara has over trueSpace is that all of it's features are accessible through a single workflow. There are currently at least 5 different possible workflows in trueSpace. trueSpace is definitely the application to watch out of the two, mainly because there isn't really any solid info about Carrara 6 to pin ones hopes on. From a philosophical point of view, there is something wrong with the idea that one may potentially have to wait til version 8 for version 7 to be finished.