Buy Something That Doesn't Work in Carrara? Post your Questions and Workarounds here. (please)

WendyLuvsCatz

Diomede said:

Ouch - that really sucks, Wendy.  I feel some of your pain.  Fingers crossed that it works out for you.

 well Carrara itself is not the issue 

its everything else 

and that is the something that doesn't work in Carrara increasingly on Win10

I know Carrara itself works in Win11

Dartanbeck

Ditto what Diomede said, Wendy. My heart goes out to you! 

Just keep your seatbelt fastened!

Stezza

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Dartanbeck

Wow Stezza. That's Awesome! Very nice post, my friend! Thank You!!!

Stezza

no probs if it works ok..

I dragged my old laptop with W10Pro and fired it up... still works but I did wipe it and put some version of linux on it to see how it went... installed fine and updated. Then I turned it off and put it back in the cupboard. 

I have a Windows 95 IBM machine in the back shed somewhere ( unless the missus has turfed it ) tempted to see if it still works 

Dartanbeck

Always tempting to look back in time like that. 

WendyLuvsCatz

moving stuff around in one's content library apparently

Carrara (not DAZ studio) asks me where it is!!!

this is just browsing to the library, not actually loading anything

smart content doesn't work in DAZ studio for me anyway but I think Carrara might still use it to some extent

I just plonked stuff by Predatron fom 4 different locations into one of his folders, the duf files, and Carrara asked me to browse to and find every one of them!

DAZ Studio doesn't, it just loads them from wherever I put them

Bunyip02

Dartanbeck said:

Wow Stezza. That's Awesome! Very nice post, my friend! Thank You!!!

+1  Extended for another 12 months which works well for my computer replacement !!!

Stezza

WendyLuvsCatz

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

Bunyip02

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 !!!

WendyLuvsCatz

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

Stezza

this balloon dog for $10499.30 doesn't quite work right in Carrara but it is an easy excersise in getting it to work

first you will need the Carrara Plugin called Daz Studio

Open you expensive balloon dog in DS and then export in OBJ format and set for Carrara to your fav folder for doing stuff like this

then one at a time in DS apply the pose and export each time the same as before and name it the pose you have applied

when all that is done open Carrara

import the OBJ default balloon dog ... it will be a bit over size when imported so adjust it back to 100%

then into the modelling room... select all of the object and create morph

in the morph you created create a morph and call it one of the poses you saved, then import the balloon posed OBJ file and appy

do same for all the poses and then you will have a working balloon dog worth $10,499.30 working in Carrara 

then all that you need to do is create a balloon texture for the balloon dog

 

wsterdan

Nice to actually be able to use a $10,499.30 asset, thanks for the info.

"first you will need the Carrara Plugin called Daz Studio". 

I think that's the same plugin I use these days for Nano Banana Pro... 

therixx

Again, another duplicate post that I cannot delete, so I edit to not repeat the one above

therixx

Ok, now the good comment has disappeared. I am not going to rewrite it all, but

I posted my Easter card in the Show us your renders.

I noticed an issue: the lens flares are directly made by Carrara, but they were supposed to be stronger than what I posted at first. They were ok while I was rendering at small sizes, but my final renders are 4096x2304 (from which I then get the smaller ones)
It seems that, the higher the resolution, the weaker the lens flares become.
So, for the final renders I raised the streaks intensity (of the lights with lens flares) a lot. Now the render looks like it was meant to be since the beginning.

Here you can see both images in two separate posts
https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/comment/9494326/#Comment_9494326

WendyLuvsCatz

the light flares are actually postworked by Carrara so one could theoretically render them separately with other layers such as a depth map at a lower resolution to add in another program like Photoshop or Gimp with upscaling applied, or just add lens flares in another program in post for that matter

therixx

I know, I was pointing out, as a reminder, a behaviour that could be unexpected. It was for me, at least.

WendyLuvsCatz

I want to use Carrara

it just makes me cry

none of the Genesis 9 poses are now working on my saved blended weight Genesis 9 characters

my DAZ Content folder won't update

had to load blended weight mapped clothing via file because would error from browser

I am just so frustrated 

I am going to try resaving in D|S4.11

WendyLuvsCatz

rear wheels of Meshworks Cobra motorhome don't turn

but they don't turn in DAZ Studio either 

maybe I need to hide them and cut off another set from the model and parent them

update

is a prop version I could easily cut up

just used it's rear wheel but might actually be easier to use whole thing

therixx

Wendy, did you buy the Cobra motorhome from meshwork's own site?
So the shop works via paypal?
I doubted this because they have a closing offer for 20$ every product, but the button doesn't work. Also, the contact email appears to be broken...
And is that the Sunflyer motorhome? Because when I click on the Cobra I get a page 404 error

WendyLuvsCatz

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WendyLuvsCatz

therixx said:

Wendy, did you buy the Cobra motorhome from meshwork's own site?
So the shop works via paypal?
I doubted this because they have a closing offer for 20$ every product, but the button doesn't work. Also, the contact email appears to be broken...
And is that the Sunflyer motorhome? Because when I click on the Cobra I get a page 404 error

yes

you need to go to the last product page to purchase the download from the link given

not clicking product names but the number/letter combination  next to them towards the left 

then go back on your browser for the next one

read the instructions carefully 

there are a couple of different motorhomes and addons BTW

see https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/comment/9503201/#Comment_9503201