Quote - For anyone who might be interested, Shade3D Pro is on sale right now, and you can crossgrade from Carrara for $199. This was posted over in the Poser Forum, and thought someone here might be interested.

Shades interface is much different than Carrara's (I don't get along with it very well), but it has some great features, and could make a good companion tool to Carrara, especially if you have Poser Pro (Poser Fusion).

I think you'll find Shade 3D ver 14 UI fairly easy to use. I have something to admit too - I abandoned Carrara myself years ago. I used to be a Ray Dream user in the 90s and loved it. I also picked up Hexagon and tried that and while I liked the UI in general it was so buggy it was unusable for me (it couldn't import the vast majority of my models in 3DS format).

If you tried Shade years ago (back in the Shade 10 days), you'll remember it being sort of CAD like. Now if you really like that, its still there - you just have to reconfigure the interface for it. But since then, the UI that you use now puts all the tools you need into one very accessible location, while maintaining the Shade Browser which is a fantastic way to work with your models in a hierarchical method. What you need is accessible, non-modal.

Shade Pro is the high end version and normally costs $499 in USD, but the cross grade is $199, so its a great deal. There is a mega-list of features available, but also a list of just the features found in Pro that you don't find in Standard.

I can try to answer your Shade questions if you want to ask them. A great place for answers from a lot of long time users is on the FB forum here.

Best regards,

chikako
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