Carrara 8.5.0.172 Beta Now Available for Download
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LOFL!!!
Agreed, Mr. Dart. Nice week for you )
I find the 8.5.x.172 is still in my cart for Windows. It appears the Mac version rolled back to 8.5..132 or thereabouts, but not the Windows build.
That's a relief for me, because I thought the .172 release was much better on Windows.
And, I discovered reasons why I get the same 'Error' popping up which prevents saving of files in 8.1 as well as 8.5. I started intuitively avoiding the problems and I couldn't state exactly what they were at the moment. So I guess Im no good as a beta tester any more. Intuition took over.
That's a bit disheartening -- I realize some folks on this list running OS X lost spot render with build 172, but not all (I never experienced the problem), and there were important fixes/improvements from 132 to 172.
I just got the build 132 from resetting my Carrara 8 pro download. But there's still an 8.5 beta in the list that I didn't download.
I just reset so I could easily get it on this laptop without crossing hard drives. I stow away every build I get - just in case.
I still have Daz Studio from the beta prior to version 1.0! ;)
I went back to 132, though. There were too many times when 172 just refused to save.
Edit...
I figured, what the heck... I went back in and reset the downloads for Carrara 8.5 beta and got builds 172 for Win and Mac and for Mimic Pro 32 and 64 across the board!
Doesn't bother me that my downloads page is all filled full now again, because that new Daz Install Manager totally R O C K S ! ! !
149 here
retried 172 last month, uninstalled and reinstalled 149 within an hour of endless Genesis error headaches
I avoid the smart content tab like the plague btw,
I import EVERY .duf file via file tab and they load onto and autofit to my also imported Genesis fine!
textures, characters, clothes, poses, everything.
Always had issues with the content browser and Genesis.
I remember having save failures on Windows (don't remember what versions). Carrara 8.5-172 on OS X has been very reliable for me in that regard. I've recently had a spate of hangs where the Carrara interface is unresponsive, but the process is fine and consuming minimal resources. Those are certainly annoying and end up with unsaved work being lost, but it appears to be more the scene than anything else (the one where rendering causes a crash -- some interplay between Inagoni's volumetric primitives and one or more other things in the scene -- I thought I'd narrowed it down, but the minimal case failed to reproduce :down:)
Yeah, the smart content sounds really great until you experience the implementation. I'm not sure its any better in DS -- I really don't use DS, but I have fired it up to test products that didn't work in C8.5 and even there I've had to work out how to browse and load the files directly. None of the smart content ever displays.
Sometimes I use genesis, but it is buggy enough (or products that C8.5 can't handle) that I still mostly use the gen4 figures.
Yeah... 172 was stable as can be for the longest time. I loved it.
Maybe something was going on with Windows? I might just try it again. 172 was definitely my fave.
I just thought of something else: I know that a lot (if not all) of the errors while saving that I saw were due to low resources. Sometimes I was able to recover and save the file anyway by closing shader windows, for example. For me it was a problem due to 32-bit WinXP and only 3.5GB RAM.
That certainly was not the case for me. I was losing some rather basic scenes on my eight core 3.1GHz each, being fed 16 GB RAM.
Strange how it just suddenly started happening though. Perhaps a strange Win Update that upset a running Carrara? Hnmpf!
My lil' core2duo lappy with 4GB ram ran Carrara 8 pretty smoothly before - we'll see how it goes this time around.
FYI,
I just had some write errors upon installing build 172. By the end, it said that it was unable to create an uninstaller.
I downloaded the file again and, although the file size looked the same and everything, it installed without a hitch this time. Just so you know. That probably goes for any build of anything for that matter.
Just sayin' :-P
File size doesn't mean that much, checking the hash does. But Daz doesn't provide those...
Those renders look good!
Thanks. Those were done in build 132 - but that doesn't matter... Carrara is just the Cat's Meow Render Tool! Gotta Love Love Carrara!
New serial code first page !
edit - do not use strong - just whats after
lol! you did?
ctrl c ctrl v is my friend here too as right click copy/paste does not work.
Darn, missed it by 2 days.
Darn, missed it by 2 days.LOL. Well as has already been posted in these forums, news will be forthcoming this month, we still have a few days. :)
But it's nine days! NINE! :ahhh:
But it's nine days! NINE! :ahhh:
:roll: :lol:
But it's nine days! NINE! :ahhh:LOL. Would you have preferred it if I allowed the Serial number to expire until the news was posted? LOL!
you wouldn't do that would you :vampire:
you wouldn't do that would you :vampire:Too late this time, maybe next time. :)
you wouldn't do that would you :vampire:Too late this time, maybe next time. :)
So we can infer from Spooky's remark that the beta will continue...... THAT must be the announcement!!!!! Pardon me while I go start a thread.... ;-)
Spook...that's not fair! You're tugging at our heartstrings here! DAZ already forgot us on Valentine's Day. Now're you're just teasing us.
Why does what day the announcement is made make a difference? Is it date or time sensitive? Is the announcement dependent on something else coming out that date? Could it be because you want to make the announcement as close to the end of the quarter as possible? Or is it just another way to put people off and keep them anticipating something, when it really amounts to nothing?
Sorry, been with DAZ too long to buy any DAZ hype of anything. And making an announcement about an upcoming announcement is pure hype.
Friday afternoon; last employee leaving the DAZ office posts the announcement and runs.
They did that when Carrara 7 was released (or was it 6?). Came back on Monday to a forum of several irate people due to bugs and other issues.
They did that when Carrara 7 was released (or was it 6?). Came back on Monday to a forum of several irate people due to bugs and other issues. Bryce 6, V4 and a DS build, in the space of less than a month. We haven't done that since. :)