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Summary: Could Be a Legend if It did everything advertised
Review: I bought Carrara after using the likes of Lightwave 5 and 3D studio max r2.5. Carrara is a very good program but extremely buggy. Don't expect too much from its IK system as it cannot be used on a solid mesh nor does it support an object skeleton of any kind, the photoshop plugins don't work even though the package states that it does. The Z axis is mapped to the Y Axis which is extremely strange. There are no plugins to support other metacreations major titles ie: Poser and Bryce. Hopefully these setbacks will be fixed later. Adobe has purchased Carrara from Metacreations so I expect to see good things come out of it, however the manual, like most metacreations product manuals, leave much to be desired. This is a good product, but buggy and sometimes, down-right strange! If you want to be a professional and have the money, I would look elsewhere to Lightwave, Truespace, 3D studio max or Maya. Those are proven and powerful programs and support industry standards.
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Summary: Could Be a Legend if It did everything advertised
Review: I bought Carrara after using the likes of Lightwave 5 and 3D studio max r2.5. Carrara is a very good program but extremely buggy. Don't expect too much from its IK system as it cannot be used on a solid mesh nor does it support an object skeleton of any kind, the photoshop plugins don't work even though the package states that it does. The Z axis is mapped to the Y Axis which is extremely strange. There are no plugins to support other metacreations major titles ie: Poser and Bryce. Hopefully these setbacks will be fixed later. Adobe has purchased Carrara from Metacreations so I expect to see good things come out of it, however the manual, like most metacreations product manuals, leave much to be desired. This is a good product, but buggy and sometimes, down-right strange! If you want to be a professional and have the money, I would look elsewhere to Lightwave, Truespace, 3D studio max or Maya. Those are proven and powerful programs and support industry standards.
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Summary: Adjustment Needed.
Review: I have mixed feelings about this product. First, Carrara is excellent. It gives you great power to produce superb graphic content. My main objection is about the company METACREATIONS. I bought both the 3D Suite and Carrara back in January of this year. I was qualified for a $200 rebate by making such a purchase. Here it is April and I have yet to see the rebate check. They still mail me promotional materials urging me to buy the very same programs that I bought and registered. You would think that a company producing computer software might at least have a current database of their customers and a history of their purchases. Evidently Metacrations does not. If any body from Metacreations is reading this I would like to say that you have excellent programmers and artists. But your marketing, management and customer relations definitely need improvement. And I would like to ask, Where is my rebate?
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Summary: Don't throw your money away
Review: I purchased Carrara on the premise that it would expand on the capabilities of Infini-D. Many of the advertised features just do not work. I've downloaded patches from metacreations web site and the program still does not work. There are more bugs in this program than a New York City apartment. Metacreations should be ashamed of themselves. How dare you put this piece of garbage on the market. Somebody call the police, I was robbed.
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Summary: Don't throw your money away
Review: I purchased Carrara on the premise that it would expand on the capabilities of Infini-D. Many of the advertised features just do not work. I've downloaded patches from metacreations web site and the program still does not work. There are more bugs in this program than a New York City apartment. Metacreations should be ashamed of themselves. How dare you put this piece of garbage on the market. Somebody call the police, I was robbed.
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Summary: Great ... but buggy.
Review: The idea behind this application is fantastic - mix Bryce with 3D Studio Max or any other high-end 3D app.Unfortunately, although it kind of works the way it should, being a v.1.0 product, it suffers from being very buggy. It crashes a lot - and I mean, a lot! When twisting or turning an object, it will usually start to chug slowly and then freeze and/or crash. I am currently waiting for Metacreations to post a few patches on their site to make this the product it was supposed to be. But in spite of these problems, it is great fun to use, and the interface is brilliantly designed and easy to use. If you're used to other Metacreations products, then you will be able to create nice pics in a few mins with objects you have created in the past.
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