Thanks Wendy, I am using Bforartists now, a better version of Blender. Unfortunatly, it has nothing like Carrara's Mimc. I can bring Daz models into Bforartists (morphs and all) but still trying to figure out how to do mimic like lip syncing. B4 has a plug in Called Human Generator. I have been using a MoCap app on my iphone for lip syncing and that has worked very well. 

This is a screen shot of the Bforartists UI and I model I created in it. Thanks to all my years in Carrara, becoming funtional in B4 was doable.

Carrara still runs on my Windows 11 machine.  

I Samuel said:

Carrara  ...  will last as long as Microsoft Windows last.

And  does it run  on  Wins 11   Thanx 

the generation 3 figures have a scalp and pubic mesh overlay that's similar and I use to grow Carrara hair on (the scalp I don't do the other sorts of renders)

WendyLuvsCatz said:

I managed to get my Win7 to boot by unplugging my DLink, it's still flaky but I can at least now copy files off it so doing so.

I am wondering if those fanless mini PC can run Windows 7 and Carrara

if I can run Windows unregistered I have all my OEM discs (obviously need buy a disc drive too)

it would solve the VWD dilemma and could sit next to my Win10 to share files by ethernet cable, even use my modem 

Good news !!!

I managed to get my Win7 to boot by unplugging my DLink, it's still flaky but I can at least now copy files off it so doing so.

I am wondering if those fanless mini PC can run Windows 7 and Carrara

if I can run Windows unregistered I have all my OEM discs (obviously need buy a disc drive too)

it would solve the VWD dilemma and could sit next to my Win10 to share files by ethernet cable, even use my modem 

mschack said:

Head made in make-human.  Baked a noise texture for the skin using inagoni plugin and then painted some texture and bump using 3DPaint utility.  Complete with Carrara hair moustache...

wow, your renders are impressive

video

DAZ iray, Carrara Octane, Twinmotion and Unreal renders of an Unreal asset

I Samuel said:

Carrara  ...  will last as long as Microsoft Windows last.

Good to know, I'm hoping to use it for many years to come.  Others here have said no problems with Win 11 (which I'm not using yet).

msdhack -

Impressive images.  This Carrara program looks prety good.  

Yes that is the default Carrara 'cast iron' texture with a little Anything Goos...

I believe the plant generator is sorely underused.  Unfortunately the defaults are terrible which puts people off, but I put in just a little work and got something almost acceptable...

Head made in make-human.  Baked a noise texture for the skin using inagoni plugin and then painted some texture and bump using 3DPaint utility.  Complete with Carrara hair moustache...

Steve K said:

Okay, now I'm seeing it, pretty scary alright.  

Ha Ha, I just try these simple, quick animations for fun, as nothing can beat the super prototyping speed of Carrara. That is why I have no plan for leaving DAZ's Carrara 3D, as it runs pretty well on Intel i9 and Windows 11. Carrara is written in native C++  and uses COM (Component Object Model), which will last as long as Microsoft Windows last.

I have a z620 with a pair of e5-2690 xeons which gives me 32 threads of rendering (32 render buckets in Carrara).  It is way way faster to render than my main gaming computer, which has a pretty nice i7.  It's true that the clock speed is slower, but the number of render cores is more important for Carrara rendering (at least with the native render engine, which is what I prefer; if you're thinking of using Octane for Carrara, then that's dependant on your GPU instead).   You can think of it as a high clock speed meaning that each individual 'render bucket' renders faster, but having tons of render buckets which might each be slightly slower individually still overall eclipses the render speed of a much lower thread count.

So yes, I think your idea of a z640 is a FANTASTIC idea for Carrara rendering, in fact I'm very glad I stumbled on this thread because back when I got the z620 (has it already been 5+ years?) the z640's were still out of reach for me price wise.  Now a quick glance at ebay tells me I can likely get one for less than $200.  Moreover it blows my mind to find out that the xeon e5 2699 v4's which were originally listed at over $4000 each, can now be had on ebay for around $200 each.  And after some checking it looks to me like the z640's chipset can use them (more investigation needed to confirm...)   

Whoa.  I'm thinking it's time for me to do an upgrade, as the thought of having 88 render cores at my command is... well very very cool.

I could use this to get a larger solid state hard drive (again looks like I could quadruple my current 1TB to 4TB for around $200 by hunting on ebay), and I'd finally have more than enough room to put in my entire library of DAZ content and still have plenty left over for other things if I wanted. I could even (slightly) upgrade my GPU from a 1070 to a 1080 ti for less than $200, and all told I'd be spending what... around $1k for a new render monster?  

I too was looking with envy at the new threadrippers (and who knows? in 4 or 5 years they too might fall into a reasonable price range) but hey with 88 render cores at such a reasonable price point, who needs to wait on threadrippers?  :)

well Sagan by TheMysteryIsThePoint exports obj series nicely and they are not heavy in Carrara as the Digital Carvers Guild importer loads only one each frame

just a big folder of objs to find room for

WendyLuvsCatz said:

Bunyip02 said:

WendyLuvsCatz said:

Bunyip02 said:

WendyLuvsCatz said:

well it seems my Win7 machine has died 

Oh-no - not good ....

yeah no more VWD, won't work on Win10

Carrara throws an error if I even stick the extension in 

guess I needed the new drive I got the other day for all the DAZ studio obj series exports of Dforce sims for DCG obj series importer

With VWD is that the original version or the updated version ?

Sounds like the new drive was a blessing !

original but it's Philemo's bridge that is the issue

the extension 

and I gain 2 4TB external drives from my Win7 I guess

Hmmm, VWD was on my wishlist - might need to reconsider ....

Anyone else running VWD on Win 10 without any problems ?

Bunyip02 said:

WendyLuvsCatz said:

Bunyip02 said:

WendyLuvsCatz said:

well it seems my Win7 machine has died 

Oh-no - not good ....

yeah no more VWD, won't work on Win10

Carrara throws an error if I even stick the extension in 

guess I needed the new drive I got the other day for all the DAZ studio obj series exports of Dforce sims for DCG obj series importer

With VWD is that the original version or the updated version ?

Sounds like the new drive was a blessing !

original but it's Philemo's bridge that is the issue

the extension 

and I gain 2 4TB external drives from my Win7 I guess

WendyLuvsCatz said:

Bunyip02 said:

WendyLuvsCatz said:

well it seems my Win7 machine has died 

Oh-no - not good ....

yeah no more VWD, won't work on Win10

Carrara throws an error if I even stick the extension in 

guess I needed the new drive I got the other day for all the DAZ studio obj series exports of Dforce sims for DCG obj series importer

With VWD is that the original version or the updated version ?

Sounds like the new drive was a blessing !

Bunyip02 said:

WendyLuvsCatz said:

well it seems my Win7 machine has died 

Oh-no - not good ....

yeah no more VWD, won't work on Win10

Carrara throws an error if I even stick the extension in 

guess I needed the new drive I got the other day for all the DAZ studio obj series exports of Dforce sims for DCG obj series importer

ShawnDriscoll said:

Windows 11 treats legacy apps (ca. 2005) with respect, as though written for Windows 11. My Carrara Pro 5.1 has 32 buckets being thrown at it for rendering.

Very interesting.  Carrara 5 is 32 bit I believe.  So does running on Windows 11 mean that Carrara 5 (and other 32 bit software) is now free from the RAM limitations of being merely 32 bit ?