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Naes3d, I don't think "Eovia is withholding some standard features from it in order to increase the value of Hexagon", as you put it. To me, at least, Hexagon's and Carrara VM's workflows are different. Even if C5 coders wanted to adapt many of Hex's features, it probably would have taken them a lot of time to do it because C5's workflow just doesn't jibe with Hex's. My guess is that Eovia, up to C5, concentrated more on adding features and a few UI as well as workflow enhancements specifically in the materials area rather than "changing the engine" such as adding symmetry modeling in the VM room itself as well as better and sophisticated animation tools. No doubt, in its current state, Carrara is already a very capable package.
Still, I am hoping that with C6, developers would sit back and look at Carrara in a wider perspective, sort of a bird's eye view; assess carefully where they want the package to take it next. Right now, Carrara is still categorized in the mid-end level. Personally, it would be nice to know if one of these days the app turned out to become a player in the highend field actively engaged in games creation, films and tv. I hope it doesn't have to take a couple more versions to see that happening. With Hex's success, seems everything is possible and is within reach in just the next version, C6...
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