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the only customizable camera setting seems to be zoom.
i can't import poser cameras?
thanks
not seeing anyting for carrara in today's sales
Carrara can open a Poser scene (pz file). When I do so, the Poser cameras come in as conical cameras. Not sure about your other questions. There are three camera mm presets (25, 50, 200), but there is also a slider.
seems the slider is only for the zoom. i'm used to the poser f-stop and stuff, i keep looking for the equivalents, but isnt necessarily one. will get used to it eventually. lol
rendered the preload kelly lodge.car
i selected the table, hit 0 to zoom the camera. cranked idl to 500. it made a big difference. didn't touch the photons numbers.
out of the box, Country Lane Autumn
only a couple of new hairs to render, then that's all the new stuff from the sale. and a couple of Lake seasons.
aww country lane plain, too many mb.
Very cool. Did you adjust the lighting for the lamps (bulbs?, anything glows? other?) for the lamps in the Kelly Lodge render, or was that a preset?
I'm considering buying Carrara just for those HowieFarkes items- Country lane included. They are incredible. How resource hungry are they though?
Very, but render well though.
latest kelly lodge render drop is the carrara preset. i selected the table and hit 0 key to zoom into the room. the only change i made was to set indirect light to 500. took just under 3 hours to render on my dayjob compy, i5 4gb. luv seeing 4 buckets rendering.
camera move on the country lane2 a bit slow on i5,4gb. the autumn scene is faster, i turned on light through transarency, rendered about an hour.
scene needs some critters. come out lil squirrel and dinosaurs tee hee
Nice. Will add Kelly Lodge to my wishlist and hope there is another sale soon. The product page says "Carrara Materials and presets by BetterThanLife included (.CAR and .CBR)." I don't see a vendor named BetterThanLife here at Daz or at Rendo. Mysterious? Or am I just missing the vendor page?
i think is by http://www.daz3d.com/digital-lite-design
pc membs forum - http://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/57693/kelly-lodge-missing-the-carrara-download
camera banking tee hee must use more often
Thank you.
you got me thinkin whats better than life? iz only one alternative really.
Better Than Life - is/was also known as BTL on the forums, and used to be a regular in the Carrara forum, but I don't recall seeing him around lately. IIRC BTL and Ringo did the Carrara shaders for the V4 Elite textures.
As more products come out with only duf files, I wonder if there will be a niche for someone to offer Poser (and thus Carrara) texture files for other vendors' sets and similar products the way people do for clothing items.
File size, wise they aren't bad, as Howie makes ample use of the replicators. Navigating within the scenes can be difficult because by default everything is on and visible. What I do is hide replicators that are slowing the scene navigation down (usually very high number of replications) with the Hide Object in 3D View checkbox, which means that when you are working in the scene, the replicator is hidden and isn't drawn or calculated, yet when the scene is rendered, it is visible.
Render times can also be long. Howies uses a fake GI rig as an option, which is basically a bunch of lights replicated on an invisible dome, and give a diffuse, atmospheric light such as an hdri would provide if using GI. Generally, this method can be quite a time saver with good results, but Howie's scenes are so detailed, and he uses translucency in many of his leaf shaders, refraction in his water, etc. that it can make the render times similar to using global illumination.
Fortunately, there are many ways to get a faster render, such as deleting items that aren't visible in your scene, reducing the number of replications, or even adjusting the shaders to eliminate translucency.
looking for how to tell a prop or body part to not cast shadows?
and how do you tell an obj to not receive shadows?
thanks
theres a lot of stuff on the properties tabs. i see a list for lights to ignore items.
is there individual sharpness filter setting?
- in poser7 the minimum shade rate made a big difference on the old west mercantile.
You can turn off shadows for props and figures under the general tab of the properties tray. Same for receiving shadows.
For a rigged figure, such as a Genesis 1 or 2, the Actor is the actual geometry, so turning off shadows will turn it off for the whole mesh. You can't turn them off for just the hand or right shin. For the Mil 4 and earlier figures, the geometry is called Model in the figure hierarchy.
The same applies to the lights. If you set up a light to ignore the hand in a figure, such as Genesis, it won't work. You have to choose Actor. Hand in the list is just a bone in the figure's rig, and since the bones are already invisible for the renderer...
yeah. i'm finding the shadow options on the model. but not the individual parts. (poser can turn shadows off on body parts).
my first minor success with the fountain tool
used wondrous wares vase with the Daz Rose. Flamingo from Lawn Ornaments.
changed the distant light to sunlight. turned on idl, sky, caustics, light through transparency in both places.
activated the fountain and used the storyboard to go to 2s into the time line. rendered as png.
was trying to make fountain look like rainy mist. wondering if there's a way to change the shape of the fountain particles?
wuh oh file over 2m again. sigh. crop it or shrink it? tough decision. cropping it.
thinkin of a workaround for the shadows. use 2 lights, one for the flowers and vase set to cast shadows. a 2nd light to shine on the stems and stuff, and not cast shadows.
and somehow desaturate everything 'cept the blooms
Why not cast shadows on the stems?
If you have a Pro version of Carrara, try rendering and Object Index Pass to isolate the flowers.
object index pass? thanks. will have to look that up in the online help pdf
Utahraptor in rara.
out of the box.
Old west mercantile interior. so far i replaced the glass display case with the carrara glass shader.
Not possible I presume.
I don't know why propose fountain while particles emitter do best job ?
fountain makes me think of water fountain.
if they called it geyser, i would think of the old faithful geyser at Jellystone Wyoming Natl Park
I agree. Like this, the tool is a bit useless...
my first time rendering howie's snow scene.
straight out of the box :D needs some imperial walkers, lol