cjd posted at 2:34PM Wed, 17 August 2016 - #4280223

Shade3D reads Poser .PZ3 files, and has Windows and Mac versions. Its "Pro" version price is a bit more more than Carrara Pro. It does support 32 bit/channel color

Unfortunately I don't know anyone that uses it, and there is no Forum for it here on Renderosity, as far as I know (I just looked). ... would be interested in hearing from Carrara users that have tried it.

Thanks. Below is a short video by Shade showing the Poser/Shade integration via "Poser Fusion". I get from this that all the animation has to be done in Poser itself. That is not the case, of course, with Carrara, which adds complete Poser Runtimes to the Carrara browser, so any single element - character, pose, prop, etc.- can be added and animated freely in Carrara. As I mentioned, that is the key for me, and I'm pretty discouraged about finding anything else that is comparable.

http://mirye.net/shade-3d-14-1-1-new-features/119-poser-10-poser-pro-2014-integration