The reason I want Lightwave is simple. It's used in more movies and T.V. than I can name off hand. I had two teachers in school who used it professionally, they worked several movies with Lightwave. i've seen what it's capable of, period. Sure it's a very difficult program to use, but when mastered, it's beyond amazing. If you know Lightwave well, you have a better shot at getting a real 3D gig. Plain and simple, there is no other 3D app on the market that's capable of what it's capable of for the money. Hash Animation Master is very cool, I've used it, and I wouldn't mind getting it. But it's not in the same league as Lightwave or 3D studio Max(which I would get too, if I had $3,400 to spare. Lightwave is only around $2,000, for the difference I could buy another computer instead.

Yeah, I think they're using the mayan calender, you know 13- 28 day months. They also probobly have stone pillars to judge the movement of the sun across the sky, and are waiting for the summer equinox or something like that. But you could be right, metric time is probobly the system they are using. As far as the word patch goes, I think it needs more than a simple patch; more like a miracle.

By the time the patch is released, we'll all have moved on to other software. How much more bitching can we do? Not enough. I will forever have hatred for the F%#KS at Metacrapations, they took our money under false claims and then pissed on all of us. I don't blame it all on Eovia, but they havn't done anything to fix this nightmare yet. It's truly an unfortunate situation, and there is nothing left to say, except OH WELL!!!!!

Ah yes, another reason why we need a patch to help fix this mentally disabled program call Carrara! Let's start seriously annoying the crap out of Eovia for it. Otherwise we will never see a new patch, and it's more than needed.

You'd be a fool to buy Carrara right now, unless you can find it for under $10.00. You wouldn't hit yourself in the head with a hammer would you? Then why would you want to start living a real life nightmare? Wait and see if Eovia actually releases Carrara 2.0 without 5,000,000,000,000,000 bugs in it. I hate to be brutally honest, but don't buy it unless you can find it for really,really cheap.

JimGale, If you can afford it, buy 3D Studio Max. It's not as difficult as lightwave, but it's not exactly cheap either. It all depends on what you can afford for what you want to do with it.As far as Bryce & Poser go, they are both great programs for what they are. I still love Bryce for doing landscapes & such, it's incredibly amazing for a $200 piece of software. But it's not a modeler per se, but you can do some very cool things with it. Poser is great for people and animals, but not for rendering, it's just a tool to use for specific tasks.Yes Bryce is in a different league than Poser for texturing and rendering. I would recommend waiting, and keep using Bryce & Poser and learn new techniques & tricks in them & just enjoy them for what they are for now. Animation Master Is tough but worth the effort, just keep at it, you'll learn the intricacies in the end. Good Luck.

Very , Very, COOL! I'm impressed, keep at it.

Where is our patch? Eovia really needs to make a clear announcment about it. Not a bunch of hype about Amapi! They need to let us know if they are even really working on a patch, so we can either get excited ot just forget about the whole thing and move on with our lives. i'm getting sick of the whole thing, it makes me want to puke on my keyboard. EOVIA if your out there listening to all of this, you need to step up to the plate and tell us what's up with the patch for Carrara, we are getting a little restless, not to mention alittle pissed off. Be real men and speak up on this or plan on losing future loyal users.

That's great but what about the new patch? The 1.01 patch is old news, and not that helpful. We need a new patch, not a new Carrara.We need a patch to fix the program we originally bought. If not I'll buy something else, and you won't be getting any of my money for new version of Carrara. We were promised a new patch a while ago, and some of us are getting a little pissed off about this whole thing, are you listening?????We want a new patch!We want a new patch!We want a new patch!We want a new patch!We want a new patch! Is that clear enough??

To say the least!

Have we all just given up ona new patch from Eovia? Or am I the only one still waiting(hopelessly most likely)? It's just one big pain in the ass! It looks like Eovia could care less about the old Carrara users, and just wants to sell everyone a new version and make some money. If anyone out there from Eovia is reading this, don't take us for fools. You make it sound like the 1.01 patch is a big revelation to us, we've all had that patch for a year and Carrara is still a piece of crap with mental problems of it's own.

cristianr: it's good to hear from someone else that feels the same about Cararra. They just want to sell us Amapi and a new version of Carrara, they are clearly not giving us a new patch anytime soonn if ever. We got screwed by our pals Metafu#kations and here we are wishing for a fix that will never come. Eovia is full of crap, they lied to us, and now we have an orphan program with no new support.

Very nice. I like the sun flares, and the wood planks look better than on the last one. Good job man.

The patch will never be out, because Eovia doesn't care. Read some of the previous messages in here, and you'll see what I mean. I wouldn't hold my breath for the patch, but they'll sell you Amapi at a discount. I'm one the angry ones about the patch situation.

i would have to say that the most useless feature about Carrara is program itself, if it were a person it would be locked up in an insane asylum in a little rubber room all by itself, so it couldn't hurt anyone else.