Oh... and I love how they gave it a Poser-esque interface, but with the tools nice and tiny in the side bar rather than being the most Huge things to occupy the window! LOL

Love Carrara's "Everything In Your Face" interface!!!

Steve K said:

Dartanbeck said:

Let's face it, Carrara is truly magical in how it allows us to load Poser/Daz3D products directly 

Indeed.  Many years ago, I was a Poser user (and Bryce) who learned that Carrara could load Poser format items directly from its browser.  And Carrara was much more capable at creating large scenes and animating them.  And I'm still there.  

My biggest thing was that it could load and work with that type of content AND it was a modeler. 

Back when I first saw it at Daz 3D they still had the Eovia promotional pages for it. Something like six pages of "What's Included"

I really only cared about having Vertex modeling. But seeing that it had terrains, metaballs, spline, text, etc., etc., really got me over-the-top excited about it.

When I saw that the Pro version came with an animated Ocean primitive, I knew that was my target.

Once I actually got Carrara 8 Pro beta installed I was blown away by a whole lot more!

It felt so much faster than Poser. The render room was the coolest thing I ever saw. The Texture room... Wow! But when I opened the browser to load in a figure, I could believe how quickly it loaded. Poser's (I can't remember what they called their browser) would sit and spin for days! Go make something to eat, come back... still waiting. Make some coffee, make and eat some desert... ah... at last!

Carrara Pro is still the most complete 3D arsenal on the market - even though it's outdated development-wise. It's truly mind-boggling how much can be achieved without ever leaving it. And like you said, we can really put a lot of content into it and it still pulls through just fine and renders like nobody's business!

Headwax said:

I posted this on a surfing site and was accused of it being ai generated 

Imagery on the board is carrara and brushes Ron's , hair I borrowed , the sixth toe is mine 

I did not realize surf boards and surfer vests were so high tech.  

Speaking of six digits, here is a baseball player who uses a six fingered baseball mit - he throws both right handed and left handed. 

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/nf1NgeMGSEU

Dartanbeck said:

Let's face it, Carrara is truly magical in how it allows us to load Poser/Daz3D products directly 

Indeed.  Many years ago, I was a Poser user (and Bryce) who learned that Carrara could load Poser format items directly from its browser.  And Carrara was much more capable at creating large scenes and animating them.  And I'm still there.  

Ha ha that's a scream Stezza ;)  and very interesting Wendy;)

I posted this on a surfing site and was accused of it being ai generated 

Imagery on the board is carrara and brushes Ron's , hair I borrowed , the sixth toe is mine 

Let's face it, Carrara is truly magical in how it allows us to load Poser/Daz3D products directly through the same sort of methodology, and then they behave very much the same way - if not even a bit easier to manage within Carrara since it's tools are so efficient and handy.

The biggest thing in the opinion of most, I believe, is that all of the materials - shaders - need to be enhanced or even completely redone.

I have put together this simple process for myself that works well for speedy-fast animation renders, so you may not agree with some of my techniques. Use what works for you!!!

Either way, this video should hold the clues needed to help get your character's shaders sorted out quickly and easily!

See the description of the video for a link to the support page for the article on my website, where you may also download the free "Base Scene" file that I use.

mmoir said:

WendyLuvsCatz said:

we missed you 

consider selling your Carrara content on Renderosity too 

are still a few of your sets I never picked up (though I do own quite a lot)

I don't even know where to look to find the files for those Products anymore.

If you ever decide to make them freebies, I'd be happy to host them on my site :)

If you want the DIM-ready files, just download them from your Daz 3D account ;)

Headwax said:

Good to see Carrara and 3D printing together 

 Agreed!

I've been quiet in this (and all) forum lately. Well... for a while now.

Not for any real reason other than the fact that I'm constantly working on animations, simulations, tweaks, and rendering now.

I've mostly switched things up. I have bought and built tools in an attempt to get Daz Studio my new Carrara-like animation studio and it accidentally really worked!

I still use Carrara, but more like the way we used to use Daz Studio - as a plugin. I still find it to be the fastest and most beneficial way for me to create custom models. I started dabbling in Hexagon for that, since I have it and that it. too was made by Eovia/Daz 3D, but I don't really know my way around - whereas Carrara just lays everything right at our fingertips. I seem to have forgotten my UV Mapping tricks though. I used to just fly through custom UV Mapping in Carrara, but I seem to have lost a step or three in that regard. I'll get it back!

I still hound the higher-ups at Daz 3D/Tafi to dust off the old Carrara Dev specs... but... well... you know....

As I got older, however, I really found a liking to being able to buy assets and toss them into a scene and it all just works. That kind of still blows me away at how that has evolved. Scenes are lit and render ready, characters are packed full of functionality and I give them a TON more, which was my key to unlocking my favorite way to animate ever. 

Something like this, which has 109 Predatron LoREZ figures animated throughout

...and this little side project:

You probably already have Fenric's and Inagoni's plugins, right? If not, let me know. I am hosting them on my site.
 

Feel free to download and host any of my stuff, example:

• Starry Sky for Carrara
• Carrara EnvironKit - Woodlands
• Carrara EnvironKit - Underwater Realms
• Carrara EnvironKit - Badlands
• Carrara Kanji Kit 1

This page has links to two of my articles that include videos along with Base Scene files that can be downloaded - the scene that is demonstrated in the videos. Feel free to copy any of this information if you like.

This page is my Cripeman Memorial, where I have an index to his videos

This page is my index for all of GKDantas' Carrara tutorial videos (silent)

I have a ton of info about Carrara on my site. Browse around Carrara Zone from the top navigation and let me know if I can help in any way - PM me here if you need help.

Dartanbeck.com

I posted the Carrara Cats render on another site and one of the comments was "Aww, no Simon's cat"

not knowing who Simon's cat is or who Simon is I needed to know....

The cube came forth and pushed and pulled polygons became Simon's cat.... boned and morphed

That's Saturday done and dusted 

here's something different... my songs on soundcloud

listen to my album 

Carrara Alphabet Riot in Sounds of Times Gone By

Stezza said:

Stezza said:

I've cubed a few Carrara Cats!

eeeeew! 

 

 

but who let the dogs out!

Awesome, all my favourites! Well done, well done indeed! 

Stezza said:

I've cubed a few Carrara Cats!

eeeeew! 

 

 

but who let the dogs out!

WendyLuvsCatz said:

background said:

I totally cheated, in a way. I tried drawing them onto the hdri, a few times but it looked terrible. The tyre tracks are actually two large diameter thin ring objects that I created and then cut in half and put in the image like the car, and set the opacity very low. The full ring had 512 segments to get a smooth curve. I did mess up though because I think the tyre marks appear to be from the front wheels, but the Toyota 2000GT is a rear wheel drive car. I never owned one, but I liked the open topped one in 'You Only Live Twice', and it makes a change from an Aston Martin.DB5. 

well that is how I edit HDR 

I render spherical camera 2:1 images to match in size, dome only in Environment but uncheck the HDR being visible in DAZ Studio or Carrara Octane (EXR there) then add the Tiff or EXR image as a layer to the HDR in Gimp keeping the metadata etc

That's clever, I will have to try that. I'm sure there will be other places in the story where a hdri is needed and often they don't contain everything I would like. On these ones. I was happy to get the car on the left side of the road, or at least appear not obviously in the middle.

background said:

I totally cheated, in a way. I tried drawing them onto the hdri, a few times but it looked terrible. The tyre tracks are actually two large diameter thin ring objects that I created and then cut in half and put in the image like the car, and set the opacity very low. The full ring had 512 segments to get a smooth curve. I did mess up though because I think the tyre marks appear to be from the front wheels, but the Toyota 2000GT is a rear wheel drive car. I never owned one, but I liked the open topped one in 'You Only Live Twice', and it makes a change from an Aston Martin.DB5. 

well that is how I edit HDR 

I render spherical camera 2:1 images to match in size, dome only in Environment but uncheck the HDR being visible in DAZ Studio or Carrara Octane (EXR there) then add the Tiff or EXR image as a layer to the HDR in Gimp keeping the metadata etc

3DIO said:

@Wendy
It's jaw dropping to think you don't have it.  It's a 'Wendy Toolkit Essential' for sure is that one  :-D
Out of curiosity, are the videos attached to my post not showing in your browser?  If they are and you've not seen them, at least watch the second video which is less than a minute and shows a couple walking and holding hands among other examples.  

 

videos show, no hadn't clicked 

I haven't used it because I didn't really render many videos in DAZ studio  until Filament and then when I was given a decent video card by TheMysteryIsThePoint

before that, nearly every thing I did was Carrara, Unreal, iClone, Poser and everything else except DAZ studio 

it was just too slow

even now I mostly use Twinmotion backgrounds and png series rendered in DAZ studio added in post

I have asked a lot about Limbstick and other plugins, scripts etc but the answers I get are very vague and unhelpful 

I even asked specifically if it could do stuff like hold hands only to be told by people who own it I don't think so

so yeah

its quite amazing how many people buy stuff and don't actually use it

and I can't afford to buy stuff I can't use so pick and chose carefully 

it's a lot more difficult in DAZ studio than other softwares 

Carrara and iClone one can at least track and pin bones from 2 figures to each other so one only needs to sort out the posing of the fingers

D|S has never had a good solution for this

the only way you could download the standalone apps I use would be to use a different PC then copy them over

but things get written and verified so not sure how you would go

a Dlink or other WiFi USB dongle isn't that dear

you could even use your phone to hot spot if you have enough data

or buy a prepaid sim card with lots of data

I actually was on mobile internet in 2009 when I first used iClone, then Carrara  DAZ and Poser,

first a dongle with a sim card then my Samsung Galaxy tablet as a hotspot

used it for years because my landline wasn't connected to the internet, then naked ADSL eventually came here

now I am on 5G, so on mobile again

as an aside

you know those 40K posts I have...

35K of them were reached 10 years ago because I was continuously chatting to about 5 people all day on my tablet in a handful of threads!

I was on it all day, on social media too

I actually stopped using a phone or tablet outside of my house, am the only person without a phone on me now

I've cubed a few Carrara Cats!

eeeeew!