HumanTex said:

@bluejaunte ...

Well, I'd like to think I'm not the only one, but you're probably close to ballpark accurate on what volume of us there might be that have both Carrara _and_ a SpaceMouse. Something to keep in mind though if you get bored.

Well there are at least two of us 

@bluejaunte ...

Well, I'd like to think I'm not the only one, but you're probably close to ballpark accurate on what volume of us there might be that have both Carrara _and_ a SpaceMouse. Something to keep in mind though if you get bored.

HumanTex said:

Spending $250 on the compact SpaceMouse kit 2 a few weeks ago before finding out that it was broken in DAZ truly pissed me off, so thanks for this timely fix.

As a long-time Carrara user, where there's only a sliver of clunky 3DConnexion support left in the way of abrupt jumps of zoom-in/out and nothing else, I certainly think you could fill that void with a for-pay plugin if you found the time to make one.

Spending $250 on the compact SpaceMouse kit 2 a few weeks ago before finding out that it was broken in DAZ truly pissed me off, so thanks for this timely fix.

As a long-time Carrara user, where there's only a sliver of clunky 3DConnexion support left in the way of abrupt jumps of zoom-in/out and nothing else, I certainly think you could fill that void with a for-pay plugin if you found the time to make one.

EDIT to add: I'm on Carrara 8.5 and still on DS4.24, and won't touch DS6 untill it is much more stable, and has updated plugins from A-to-Z.

I sometimes use Daz Studio as a plugin for useful functions such as rigging. I see they have released version 6. Has anyone installed it? Any reactions? Especially as a plugin for Carrara?

the Carrara Cube turns into a wacky morphing wallet! 

TheMysteryIsThePoint said:

WendyLuvsCatz said:

I wish you'd join the Carrara community 

I know it's abandoned by DAZ 

but because of that, you will find a lot of sympathetic people there

and developers who have done awesome things because DAZ won't 

and you might find out why I model stuff in Carrara not Blender

and discover our Stezza and what he does starting with a cube

Hi Wendy,

I can't say that I understood all the pickle references, but definitely seems like a fun place!

a fair few of us there are Aussies and have a different sense of humour 

the Hairy Cucumber often emerges too 

WendyLuvsCatz said:

I wish you'd join the Carrara community 

I know it's abandoned by DAZ 

but because of that, you will find a lot of sympathetic people there

and developers who have done awesome things because DAZ won't 

and you might find out why I model stuff in Carrara not Blender

and discover our Stezza and what he does starting with a cube

Hi Wendy,

I can't say that I understood all the pickle references, but definitely seems like a fun place!

I wish you'd join the Carrara community 

I know it's abandoned by DAZ 

but because of that, you will find a lot of sympathetic people there

and developers who have done awesome things because DAZ won't 

and you might find out why I model stuff in Carrara not Blender

and discover our Stezza and what he does starting with a cube

WendyLuvsCatz said:

I will stick with Carrara 

Dang.  Here I was thinking it was finally time time buy the new computer with an nvidia 5000 GPU with 32 GB video RAM.  But no, still sticking with DS 4.24 for iRay backgounds and Carrara animation. 

icemage1993 said:

WendyLuvsCatz said:

realtime dynamic hair editing would be awesome 

but

I believe it is just non PA for plebs strandbased editing 

I will stick with Carrara 

Im curious how good is Carrara for hair making? 

it has dynamic hair, but it's for Carrara

you can actually convert it to mesh and export it as an obj using a plugin by Philemo but thats just a static prop

I am a Carrara user which is why I made my comment 

Poser too has dynamic hair BTW but the obj exporter for that was on sharecg so you are probably out of luck there

of course Blender too does dynamic particle hair that can also be converted to mesh

the bottom line is DAZ studio only has static strandbased hair creation

all dynamic strandbased hair has to be made by Premier Artists who have an extra plugin

and 6 isn't changing that

WendyLuvsCatz said:

realtime dynamic hair editing would be awesome 

but

I believe it is just non PA for plebs strandbased editing 

I will stick with Carrara 

Im curious how good is Carrara for hair making? 

realtime dynamic hair editing would be awesome 

but

I believe it is just non PA for plebs strandbased editing 

I will stick with Carrara 

In two months it will be 13 years since Carrara was updated. 

AFAIK  not in DAZ studio, even using scripts for animating textures 

the environment dome is not animatable

you also of course need a series of animated HDR images 

but other render engines such as Octane can but I think you need to send it to the Standalone not the free D|S plugin so pricey 

Alembic or Sagan works for that

also Blender which is free and Diffeomorphic to get there

Carrara and Poser can do it

edit

did you mean can you animate a static HDR file?

that's a different topic with a few answers 

I myself render 360 exr or tiff  files for making YouTube panoramic videos so that is definitely doable 

one can probably use AI to animate an actual static HDR file too

Luxury! In our shoebox, which we made by licking road with tongue, we have to scuff our one remainjng elbow in the mud to give our neighbours eletricity! (The other elbow being worn down to bone akready in typing on my samsung tablet ..... )

Going through my back catalogue. and revamping : The Case of The Stone Dog , m4 and millenium dog with a carrara stone texture , zapped with Gigapixel by topaz 

Stezza said:

They're coming!

to Carrara 

W E L E A S E  T H E M  S T E Z Z A!

They're coming!

to Carrara 

hahaha

reminds me of:

Every Daz update: “We fixed a bug where the viewport turned into a slideshow.” Every Carrara update: crickets ghost of a developer from 2013 floats by

Genesis 9: “I require 47 morph packs, 19 geografts, 12 UV sets, and 32GB of VRAM just to blink.” Carrara: “I don’t even know what a geograft is and I’m not learning.”

And the ultimate crossover moment: A Carrara user tries to load a modern Daz asset. Carrara: “Absolutely not.” Daz Studio: “Absolutely not.” The asset: explodes into a cloud of missing textures and broken rigging

And somewhere, deep in the void… Bryce is still rendering the same landscape it started in 2004. 

Carrara Rulz 

Nah... I'm sticking with Carrara. Been there before, if I recall :)