Design Anvil - Razor42 said:

WendyLuvsCatz said:

 need a dog decals set for spots etc

cow cat decals would be good too

  Makes small note.
Not to cheat or give away trade secrets, but you could probably use LIE overlays together with other breeds texture & oppacity maps to add some details that give that variability from the base texture.

growing matching hair could be and issue so LIE is probably the best option

something like the scar, freckles etc sets for humans but for dogs (and cats, more my interest) or a random pelt generator add horses and other critters if they sell 

the triplaner brick might help if it works on strandbased hair

( it certainly does in Carrara procedurel textures with Carrara hair! D|S still cannot touch Carrara there, no torturous spaghetti of bricks and cords, an easy nesting linear shader system)

which gives me an idea too!

I can generate and BAKE seamless procedural coats in Carrara

it sees UDIM uv mapping 

I have done it on other things, don't know why it never occurred to me before 

I buy lots of their sets, eventually this one too, (I am not DAZ+ so not now. There's always another sale)

however I rarely render them in DAZ studio 

(mostly Twinmotion) 

or split them in Carrara

Freebie Challenge December 2025 - Christmas!

Denizens of the Daz3D forum freebie area - The festive season is upon us once more, but there's no time for merriment just yet! You see, i've spoken to santa (we're on the same mud wrestling team), and he has an unfathomable conundrum. No-one seems to believe in the chubby fellow any more. The man spends all of christmas eve greasing up your chimneys to spread Christmas cheer, whilst you're unconscious on the couch, in some sort of mince-pie induced coma. He spends all year figuring out how exactly playstations are made, and sewing a billion pairs of socks … For what? If no-one believes in him, the man might just jolly-well give up the game all together, and take on mud-wrestling full time. We can't let this stand denizens. I want my seinfeld anniversary box-set and festive mud-wrestling mankini under the tree, so it's time for action.

I need everyone to post evidence that santa has been. Half eaten cookies perhaps? Hoof prints on your roof? Maybe you have ring camera footage of the man in action? We need to get the word out there that the big man is still in the game, and he's going to be out there wrecking chimneys in less than a months time.

TL;DR - Render Santa, or evidence of santa.

Rules:

1. Minimum of 3 freebies.

2. A Maximum of 5 purchased items.

3. Genesis and its standard morphs are fine.

4. If you postwork your images, provide the base image.

5. You can use AI for post-work, upscaling, colour work etc, just go easy and stick with the spirit of the competition. 

6. All Daz ecosystem programs are allowed – Bryce, carrara etc (Even poser, If you behave yourself)

7. Images pictures are subject to Daz TOS.

8. No max Entries on this one. I can't count. Do as many as you want.

This Freebie Challenge will end December 31st, 2025 @ 23:59 Daz time.

First Place: $15 store credit from KindredArts
Second Place: $10 store credit from KindredArts
Third Place: $5 store credit from KindredArts

Please post your entries in the entries thread below...

ENTRIES THREAD

A LOVELY LIST OF FREEBIES YOU CAN USE!

That appears to be Daz Studio, not Carrara (this thread is about the Carrara version). Is this Fluidos 2, and did you purchase the upgrade version without already owning Fluidos 1?

my timeline was not showing everything as some of my body parts collapsed so missed a lot of keyframes 

Carrara still does weird spins though as need to use angles in motion and forget

SofaCitizen said:

...

As far as I am aware Cararra no longer gets updates - however there are some people who still use it regularly for things ... 

Yes, I am one of those people, using Carrara on a near daily basis for short animations.  I'm not a modeler, so I don't feel I'm missing much versus other more up to date programs.  I've used Carrara so long it has become second nature, so I can think about what I want to do, rather than how to do it.  I am finally getting into DAZ Studio 4.24, but only for still images due to the long render times with the great iRay.  Then I use the stills as background in Carrara animations.  I have most recently checked out DS with Filament rendering, maybe some animation possible with that fast render time, but the quality is not the same as iRay renders.  Here is a short Carrara animation, a 48 second trailer for a 7 minute animation for the 48 Hour Film contest this year:

WendyLuvsCatz said:

Genesis 9 animation conversions

the first ones are fine and were baked aniblocks I believe I used Bone Minion on some

others are iClone 3DX6 conversions

but

those last ones were keyframed G8 animations converted with n_alexandru's script

and in Carrara they are crazy

I need to test further if its the script or the animations themselves how they are keyframed

may be an interpolation thing

AND if it happens in D|S as I save and render them on the character after conversion

not loading the saved pose file, it could be a save issue too

Talk about doing the Jitterbug !!!

Genesis 9 animation conversions

the first ones are fine and were baked aniblocks I believe I used Bone Minion on some

others are iClone 3DX6 conversions

but

those last ones were keyframed G8 animations converted with n_alexandru's script

and in Carrara they are crazy

I need to test further if its the script or the animations themselves how they are keyframed

may be an interpolation thing

AND if it happens in D|S as I save and render them on the character after conversion

not loading the saved pose file, it could be a save issue too

Welcome back!

The part about the Alpha version not showing up within DIM sounds like it's due to Filters - click on that and make sure you enable the one to see the new Alpha version. For the other issue - generally you can only ever download the latest released version from the servers (and so it is advised to backup the zip file for any version you may wish to "roll back" to). However, if you have paid for a specific version that might be different - if so then that may be fixed by enabling the right filters in DIM. However, very old versions might struggle to work with newer operating systems and/or drivers.

As far as I am aware Cararra no longer gets updates - however there are some people who still use it regularly for things and so you can look for more info in that section of the forums: https://www.daz3d.com/forums/categories/carrara-discussion

I think one side forgot to turn up! 

Seeing as there's no cricket on day 3, 4 or 5 I got the Carrara Cube out and.....

boned it

the Protector

jeronimocollares said:

Please DAZ, buy Eon Vue Infinite :D

 

I'm looking forward to the new version of Daz.I hope there will be more tools for editing primitives.

DAZ already has a world builder called "CARRARA".
They've just abandon it in order to kill it.
Just imagine its development with DAZ actually taking care of it.
What an amazing render stage it could have been. Just like Vue with a modeller and an IRAY renderer to it.
Slightly absetting, it never happened.

Stezza said:

was listening about the new discovery on the radio this morning.... WOWSERS! 

So I thought that this has to be Carrara cubed and boned 

 

At one of Australia's oldest fossil sites in Queensland the

Wakkyaoolithus godthelpi, which once belonged to mekosuchine crocodiles, was found. This group of now extinct crocs dominated inland waters 55 million years ago.

Some were also apparently at least partly semi-arboreal 'drop crocs,'.

They were perhaps hunting like leopards—dropping out of trees on any unsuspecting thing they fancied for dinner.

a precurser to the infamous drop bear! 

Ha ha love it, something else I'll be able to scare the tourists with., !

yeah continued development on Bryce and Carrara would be better

there is ChatGPT now to help, many of the third party Carrara developers have made their addons opensource too which should give them more to work with

To what end? Daz Studio is not just Daz's flagship software, it's the only software they actively develop. You want them to buy Vue and then do little to nothing with it, like they have with Bryce and Carrara?

Stezza said:

who in the world haven't been seeing the lights in the sky! 

Lucky for me I had my Carrara Camera on standby 

Too far North to see the lights. Photo looks great !!!

who in the world haven't been seeing the lights in the sky! 

Lucky for me I had my Carrara Camera on standby 

was listening about the new discovery on the radio this morning.... WOWSERS! 

So I thought that this has to be Carrara cubed and boned 

At one of Australia's oldest fossil sites in Queensland the

Wakkyaoolithus godthelpi, which once belonged to mekosuchine crocodiles, was found. This group of now extinct crocs dominated inland waters 55 million years ago.

Some were also apparently at least partly semi-arboreal 'drop crocs,'.

They were perhaps hunting like leopards—dropping out of trees on any unsuspecting thing they fancied for dinner.

a precurser to the infamous drop bear! 

https://youtu.be/1PcEuNJkLKs

Stezza said:

it sure is November 

Ying and Yang

Hummmm.... Don't have Ying and Yang on the list so let's just call this one MARCH = Dark & Light... lol.  I'm still jealous of all you can make with Carrara Stezza!  Well done indeedie :)... thanks for sharing.