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3doutlaw - 08 December 2012 10:36 AM

holly wetcircuit - 08 December 2012 01:40 AM

The trick to this is to place your spherecam at the same height as the camera in the other scene. That way their “eyes” match and the ground planes will line up.

If you are making a 360 for viewing (as if through the character’s eyes) then the camera should be at about 5 ft high (or a little less seems to be the average tv show camera height…).

The results of this render, the 2:1 image you have posted is called Equirectangular. This image is ready to wrap onto a sphere. In Carrara you can load it as the Background.

OK, I’ll try that on the next one.  I just switched to a large non-spherical render and dropped it in as a background via postwork instead, since I could not get it to work properly.  (result)

Thanks for the tip!

Nice picture! At the risk of going off-topic, if you applied a surface replicator to the suit and populated it with little spheres with an appropriate water shader, you could simulate a wet swim suit.

I guess I could, but I rendered her in Poser.  I find it much easier to get a better “character” render than in Carrara.  Because the focus on Carrara had stalled it seems like, I do most stuff in Poser now, and probably am gonna pick up Vue for Christmas.  I was giving Carrara a last shot at backgrounds here.  I still like it, but sort of a shame.  :(

There are some methods in Poser to get a wet look, but since I did not have wet hair.

I suppose she just zipped over on an inflatable mini-boat from the yacht and wore her wetsuit for the underground river that she is traveling to… 

3doutlaw - 08 December 2012 10:58 AM

I guess I could, but I rendered her in Poser.  I find it much easier to get a better “character” render than in Carrara.  Because the focus on Carrara had stalled it seems like, I do most stuff in Poser now, and probably am gonna pick up Vue for Christmas.  I was giving Carrara a last shot at backgrounds here.  I still like it, but sort of a shame.  :(

There are some methods in Poser to get a wet look, but since I did not have wet hair.

I suppose she just zipped over on an inflatable mini-boat from the yacht and wore her wetsuit for the underground river that she is traveling to… 

It’s your picture, and it looks really nice. If you don’t want a wet look that’s cool. I wasn’t trying to imply it was lacking. I’ve just had good luck in the past with that effect.

As to the spherical backdrop, I don’t see that it’s that hard or inferior, especially compared to the link you posted about the pre-modeled Poser sphere with all it’s caveats and size limitations. There is a learning curve with Carrara to be sure, but then again it’s a more feature rich program than DAZ Studio, Poser or even Vue. They all have their place, and Vue is exceptional as a terrain renderer, so maybe that’s a better way to go for backgrounds for you. Personally, not sure I’d even bother with Poser except for maybe the walk generator, but that’s just a personal opinion and is not meant to reflect on anybody else’ preferences.

NP, it’s definitely got more features!  I think Poser has got it beat in render engine now, but that’s just my opinion as well.  Seen some real good stuff come out of Carrara.

Anyway, got a little OT…thanks for the suggestions!