So I just bought it from Daz at 50% off or whatever. Price was about $75, so I thought why not? I use Blender for almost all my modelling right now, but figured for that price, at least I can take advantage of the easy Carrara plants and outdoor scene and terrain creation stuff. I might use it for some figure posing and stuff too, since I'm not good with Blender's rigging or character tools, although I'm learning. I haven't even opened it yet, as I'm nervous to get started in it after all I heard about the bugs and stuff. My question is, is there any way to work with Carrara and Blender in a pipeline type thing? Like is there any export/import bridges or translators for Carrara and Blender scenes? I'll probably model everything in Blender, then export and render outdoor shots with Carrara. Then I might use Carrara for creating some plants and environements to export back to Blender for rendering in Cycles. At least that's my thoughts so far.

I'm sure I won't find the modelling in Carrara as fast or easy as Blender, so I doubt I'll do any modelling in Carrara. I just really wanted it for the easy terrain and scene creation. Just hope there's a way to export that stuff to Blender. Maybe I should have got Bryce instead? Prob too late now though. I saw Hexagon on sale there for something like $10. I might pick that up just for giggles, but right now I don't think I'll find any tool that will be better than Blender for modelling, unless I wanted to pay thousands for one of the big apps like 3dMax, which aint gonna happen.