Hi Mat, I got a little lost about your question in Hexagon to Carrara... sometimes Hex freeze (thats the right word?) the mesh, so you end with a highpoly object with "displacement" without the maps... but in Hex you can set to export the Displacement map as a separeted file so you can load in Carrara or any other 3D tool.

Second: Carrara cant use procedural to paint... lets wait if we have something like that in version 8...

I did a pack with skin shaders for Vic using the 3DPaint feature!

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