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It’s not just a stray vert or two; there’s some ugliness in the shoulders and pecs in my render that isn’t present in 3dage’s which looks the same as mine does in DS4.

I’m using build 172 and M5 1.1, no idea what is going on here.

araneldon - 30 October 2012 11:33 AM

It’s not just a stray vert or two; there’s some ugliness in the shoulders and pecs in my render that isn’t present in 3dage’s which looks the same as mine does in DS4.

I’m using build 172 and M5 1.1, no idea what is going on here.

The Primary culprit is those verts, the ones that cause the points, which disrupts the smoothing there, the other areas are also the same smoothing issues on a smaller scale.

Okay, thanks.

I’m a first time Carrara user and, after give it a chance of being a “Carrara user”, loading a DUF file got me this:

What sort of scene are you trying to import?

I get that with anything that has to be frozen to the timeline, such as an Optitex clothing sim or animation made with aniblocks.  Static scenes and animations done with Puppeteer work OK.

Roygee - 30 October 2012 11:36 PM

What sort of scene are you trying to import?

I get that with anything that has to be frozen to the timeline, such as an Optitex clothing sim or animation made with aniblocks.  Static scenes and animations done with Puppeteer work OK.

it’s a static scene, genesis figure posed with clothes, no dynamics or aniblocks involved.

This is a Beta, so any information you can give Daz will help sort out problems - suggest you add a report to this https://bugs.daz3d.com/view.php?id=47640

If you don’t have an account specifically for the bug tracker, you will need to open one - your store account doesn’t work for the bug tracker.

HI zilvergrafix

You know that you can Load Genesis and clothing directly from the Smart content in Carrara, and also any newly updated content in DUF format should be in the smart content too. so poses and materials should be loadable if they’re in Duf format,. or in “Older” Poser format for figures like V4, V3 etc.. which can be loaded into carrara from the Content tab in the browser.

There’s now less need to import complete scenes from Daz Studio. but I’ve saved several genesis figures with clothes in Duf from DS, and opened them in Carrara 8.5 beta,..

Can you give any details about what products you’re using,. perhaps I can try to replicate the issue here.

Hope it helps

thanks for posting the new serial number early

I assume that this new serial number expires in 2013 rather than the 2012 date in the edited post

elephantboy90 - 31 October 2012 08:17 AM

I assume that this new serial number expires in 2013 rather than the 2012 date in the edited post

1 December 2012

LOL.  Caught out by the US vs UK date format.  Of course! 1 Dec not 12 Jan. Sorry

Someone tried Carrara beta with windows 8 Pro? I am getting some errors messages with th CR2 file importer and with some browser.cpp (or something) when try to add a runtime.
The version 8.1 is working fine, even the 32 bits.

Let’s see if I can explain simply…a normal is the side of the facet that should face outwards - if it doesn’t, you don’t get correct light reflection from the mesh, hence artifacts.  Sometimes in the modelling process, some normals get wrongly made and end up facing inwards.

OK - so what you do is select the mesh, go to the utilities tab and click on the one that looks like a square thumb tack.  You get three options - select the A and you get a red arrow in the centre of each facet - they should all be pointing outwards, but it is difficult to spot the few which may not be.  Click on the one that looks like a thumb tack with four spikes.  That will give you a single yellow arrow.  If it’s not pointing outwards, click on the A again, which should make it reverse direction.  This show that your normals are unified and correctly aligned.

For some reason, I’ve never got the actual reverse normal option to actually do anything, but this method works for me.

now that the current serial number has expired, does anyone know when the next one will be available or the actual upgrade ready?. Some of the scenes I’ve made in 8.5 I am anxious to get back to.