From what I've viewed in screenshots of Carrara's interface, I don't think it is nearly as annoying as some I've seen. coughtruespacecough. ;-)

Disclaimer: No offense to truespace users, but I fail to understand how they can get any work done without being blinded by those gawdy icons. On a rather humorous note, I stumbled upon an OLD copy of Corel's Dream 3D the other day - circa 1997/98. For kicks, I loaded it on my old system, and while browsing around in there, I noticed it also had some G-Buffer render options (not much, but enough to control various things in post), which I found pretty amazing all things considered. For those who never heard of it, Dream 3D was basically a carbon copy of the old Ray Dream, issued by Corel Corporation with their Graphics Suite. After about 10 minutes of messing with it, however, I just had to uninstall it... the thing crashed every two minutes, which is something I don't remember happening to me in the RayDream app. LOL. So much for playing around with 'antiques'. ;-)

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Tools :  3dsmax 2015, Daz Studio 4.6, PoserPro 2012, Blender v2.74

System: Pentium QuadCore i7, under Win 8, GeForce GTX 780 / 2GB GPU.