Quote - Yeh it is light  years ahead of Light Wave, but I tend to run into issues quite a bit.

I've had Carrara since version 3 and Lightwave since 7.5 and I can tell you for sure there is a huge difference between the two.  Lightwave is a professional program and Carrara is a hobbyist program.  The feature set between the two is the difference between night and day.

I don't know what importers you were using for LIghtwave because there are several out there but I know that Smith Micro just released their Poser Pro importer for Lightwave.  FREE to all Poser Pro users and there is another one from a for now not mentioned company that Spline God has been using for creating animations for a TV show.  This is to be released some time this month.

I like Carrara for what it is but lets not BS everyone here.  Now that Blender is getting up there in features and MicroSoft has released TrueSpace and the Video Training Library for it for FREE, I think DAZ should consider dropping the price on Carrara.  Back in the day Carrara was fairly cheap.  But then Eovia decided they needed more money back in version 4 and did a split with Carrara offering a Standard and a Pro version with the cost doubling in price.  I say it needs to return to the way it was before Eovia jacked up the price.  It didn't do them any good, they still went under and DAZ bought them out.