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Feature Carrara 7 Express
Carrara 7 Carrara 7 Pro
General
Quick Start Guide Carrara Carrara Carrara
Scene Wizard Carrara Carrara Carrara
Unicode Support Carrara Carrara Carrara
User Interface
Custom Keyboard Shortcuts Carrara Carrara Carrara
ToolBar Settings Carrara Carrara Carrara
Multiple Selection in Properties Carrara Carrara Carrara
Mulitple Undo/Redo Carrara Carrara Carrara
OpenGL Hardware Accelerated Preview Carrara Carrara Carrara
Skin-able UI/Style Selection      
Customizable Layout      
Larger Texture support In OGL 7.0 7.0 7.0
COLLADA Export x PC for 7.0 x PC for 7.0 x PC for 7.0
Nature Modeling
Small / Medium / Large scenes Carrara Carrara Carrara
Landscape Wizard Carrara Carrara Carrara
Sky Simulation Carrara Carrara Carrara
Realistic Sky Carrara Carrara Carrara
Tree Modeler Carrara Carrara Carrara
Terrain Modeler Carrara Carrara Carrara
Advanced Atmosphere Rendering (Clouds)   Carrara Carrara
Ocean Primitive     Carrara
Render time displacement on terrains     Carrara

Feature Carrara 7 Express
Carrara 7 Carrara 7 Pro
Modeling
Basic Primitives (Sphere, Cube...) Carrara Carrara Carrara
Polygonal Modeler Carrara Carrara Carrara
Spline Modeler   Carrara Carrara
3D Text Modeler Carrara Carrara Carrara
Metaball Modeler   Carrara Carrara
Hair Primitive (Render exisiting hair)   Carrara Carrara
Figure Modeling (creation of morph targets)   Carrara Carrara
Hair Modeling   Carrara Carrara
Vertex Modeling
Polygonal Modeling   Carrara Carrara
Subdivsion Modeling   Carrara Carrara
OpenGL preview (in vertex modeler) Carrara Carrara Carrara
Basic vertex primitive (cube, spheres...) Carrara Carrara Carrara
Booleans Carrara Carrara Carrara
Dynamic Extrusion   Carrara Carrara
Displacement Modeling     Carrara
Bridge Tool     Carrara
Edge Extrusion     Carrara
Vertex Modeling in Assembly room 7.0 7.0 7.0

Feature Carrara 7 Express
Carrara 7 Carrara 7 Pro
Advanced Textures and Shaders
Compositing (Backdrops) Carrara Carrara Carrara
Raytracing Carrara Carrara Carrara
OpenGL Support Carrara Carrara Carrara
MultiProcessor Support (SMP) Carrara Carrara Carrara
Image Filtering Carrara Carrara Carrara
Max Antialiasing Carrara Carrara Carrara
Non-Photorealistic Rendering (NPR) Carrara Carrara Carrara
Caustics   Carrara Carrara
Dynamic Hair Rendering Carrara Carrara Carrara
Global Illumination Carrara Carrara Carrara
Ambient Occlusion Carrara Carrara Carrara
Sky Light Carrara Carrara Carrara
HDRI Rendering   Carrara Carrara
Cartoon Rendering (Toon) Carrara Carrara Carrara
Mask (Alpha) Carrara Carrara Carrara
Other GBuffers Carrara Carrara Carrara
Depth of Field   Carrara Carrara
Motion Blur (Post Process)   Carrara Carrara
OpenGI Support Carrara Carrara Carrara
Blurry Reflections   Carrara Carrara
Transparency with absorption   Carrara Carrara
In-Scattering   Carrara Carrara
3D Motion Blur   Carrara Carrara
Displacement Mapping Carrara Carrara Carrara
Translucency Depth of Field (speed) Carrara Carrara Carrara
Raytraced Depth of Field (speed)   Carrara Carrara
Vector Motion Blur     Carrara
Network Rendering     Carrara
Multi Pass Rendering     Carrara
LOD support for figures 7.0 7.0 7.0

Feature Carrara 7 Express
Carrara 7 Carrara 7 Pro
Effects
Lens Flare   Carrara Carrara
Light Effects   Carrara Carrara
Light Cone / Sphere   Carrara Carrara
Assembling Objects
Scene Manipulators Carrara Carrara Carrara
Replicator   Carrara Carrara
Surface Replicator   Carrara Carrara
Booleans   Carrara Carrara
Animation
Key Frame Animation Carrara Carrara Carrara
Inverse Kinematics (IK) Carrara Carrara Carrara
Collision Detection Carrara Carrara Carrara
Euler Angles for Rotations Carrara Carrara Carrara
Skinning: Weight Editing   Carrara Carrara
Shaders Carrara Carrara Carrara
NLA Track Groups (Play only) 7.0 7.0 7.0
3D Paint
3D Paint     7.0
UV unfolding     7.0
UV Relax Seams   7.0 7.0
Real Display of Bumps and Specularity     7.0