WendyLuvsCatz said:

weightpainting

I find it easier in C8.1 if you have it C8.5 is triax and a pain in the bum

I just cannot 

otherwise C7 

unfortunately I only have the Car 8.5 otherwise no Carrara version. Is there a guide that addresses the issue. I'm at the very beginning I don't know what to look for. Or is it better to switch to DS rigging there and then importing to Carrara. 
 

I think there was also a video tutorial, maybe I was wrong there too.
There is also a standalone version that I like (http://ivy-generator.com/) There you can see and control how it grows. Unfortunately, the tool is older and in 32-bit so that it no longer works on Mac, not even on Mojave. very bad. But you can still use it on the Windows emulation. But maybe something exists on another site or has been further developed.
there's just a lot of trial and error with the script that's in Carrara. The results are very nice but a lot of coincidence. Maybe there is a further development ;)
Edit: I found Version 1.3 for mac it Works fine :)

Hopefully, yes! :)

I hope that my Carrara family (or anyone else for that matter) doesn't get the notion that I'm dropping Carrara, but I'll be taking a different look at things this next time around. 

Busy testing and rendering, rendering and testing... having a lot of fun - albiet one tidbit of hours at a time.

Great to see you, my friend!

Yet One More Freebie - Egyptian Collared Dress for G2F

Same issue - the shader texture maps are missing.  This is just a static prop dress that fits the default G2F.  You can use VWD on it as is.  If so, I recommend 'nailing' the collar in place.  You could also import it into that free plugin, Daz Studio, and use the transfer utility to make it a conforming figure.  You could even use Carrara's softbody physics.

See attched zip file in next post with the music pic.

For Carrara, Daz Studio has an abundance of tools to add beneficial treatments to our figures that we bring in. 

@wendyluvsCatz

thkx by the way in other thread (think it was G8 relevance vs new G9), where you posted about Carrara and bullet physics.  My previous post was so long, that forgot to thank you for that. Was a good tidbit.  Never knew that being still fairly new to DAZ (less than 4 years).

Work in Progress Diomede #1 - Gift of the Nile Landscape

This was done from general online maps, but I bet the actual elevation data is available somewhere.  I brought some maps of egypt into an image editor and began converting to some crude heightmaps.  I also created a graident from the bottom to the top so that the highlands would be in the south and the lowlands in the delta.  

In Carrara, I inserted a terrain model.  I deleted the default mountain generator.  I then imported the heightmaps I made in my image editor.  I stacked 6.  I also used an erosion filter, rain, set extremely low.  Perhaps 0.3% effect and 30% smoothing.  

I then used a layer's list shader on the terrain so that I could apply different shaders to the river, the fertile lands near the river, and the high desert to the east and west.  The oceans are just planes colored blue.

Freebie

A while ago, I made a Carrara dynamic hair freebie in an ancient Egyptian style. 

You can find it at ShareCG.  Maybe someone can put it to good use.

https://sharecg.com/v/87373/gallery/5/3D-Model/Egypt-Dynamic-Hair-for-Carrara

@Khoe.  Good choice of theme.  I will be thinking of ideas.

Carrara forum people, here is some inspiration from 90 years ago.  While 90 years ago may seem like a lot, we are closer in time to Cleopatra than she was to the building of the pyramids.  Now that is a long time ago!

Enjoy some classic Boris Karloff and be inspired.

I suppose it's not a suitable topic for Carrara Challenge #65.....

Grimmvald said:

Creepy .... and fascinating.

"Take him to the forge and show hime the instruments (of torture)".  Bernardo Gui in Umberto Eco's "The name of the Rose".  

Bernardo would be envious.  

I only watched the first part but will catch the rest later.

Makes me wonder what else is hidden in the deep recesses of your imagination.  Definitely creates a dark mood - sound track is great.

I had no part in that besides supplying prompts which were various instruments of torture in a dungeon, the AI is responsible
that's why I would be culpible if I did a Carrara version (have DAZ torture instruments and dungeon) 

Your challenge is to do a render/animation of Old Egypt inspired scene.
Egypt can be: Nile landscape, desert villages, temples, tombs, mummies, pharaohs, modern city in Egypt ancient city ruins etc. Animations of Egyptian figures etc. Whatever you can associate with mist egyten

Old egypt resources:-


Images on Google: Look at OLD EGYPT.

Egypt inspired items:-
https://www.daz3d.com/egyptian-elements
https://www.daz3d.com/secret-of-egypt
https://www.daz3d.com/temple-cave
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made a decidedly creepy video with AI

I could something far more realistic and horrifying in Carrara no doubt but then I would need to take responsibility for it

Using Marvelous Designer to Create Clothing for Genesis 1 in Carrara.

I have a walk through for using MD to create clothing for Genesis 1 in my Art Studio thread.  It is really for Genesis 9 in Studio but it also applied to genesis 1 in Carrara.

It starts here.  https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/comment/7729546/#Comment_7729546

The announced Genesis 9 will be using a unigender base mesh similar to how Genesis 1 was structured.  As a result, I am revisiting my workflow for Genesis 1, which is fully compatible with Carrara.  I have an old version of Marvelous Designer from before they went subscription so you might have to adjust depending on which verison you use, or if you get a 30 day trial of the newest version.  In the last test for DForce, just substitute the VWD 'nail' function for setting the DForce dynamic to zero and should get similar results.

Remember 'The Joke is on Me?'

https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/41014/carrara-challenge-ix-the-joke-is-on-me-wip-thread-is-open/p1

Brian,

Thanks for the suggestions, although I haven't gotten far enough to try to render anything yet, so QuickTime isn't the issue. I'm not sure about what Mojave can and can't do with QuickTime, since I have already with Mojave rendered several videos as QuickTime files in After Effects and Premiere, with no issue. But in Carrara, I usually use TIFF image sequences.

3drendero said:

The Daz3D Facebook page has a Genesis 9 announcement youtube with a G9 freebie item from a Google drive link. Facebook account not needed. If someone wants to start testing the G9 compatibility issues with Carrara...

well , ....which kind of Freebie  is it  ??  Thanx  

I run Carrara on two different Macs withput the problems you mentioned. I would check a couple of things. It sounds like a display issue. Check and maybe change your settings for OpenGL. Also try changing the display settings in the Assemble room. Mojave does not support Quicktime. It's 32 bit. Make sure that you don't have Quicktime Movie set in the Render room. That always crashes Carrara for me. I hope that helps.  

Paintbox said:

Artini said:

bytescapes said:

One of the interesting features of AI image generators like Stable Diffusion, Midjourney and DALL-E is that they can take other images as inputs, and generate new images that are more or less based on those input images. I've been playing with Stable Diffusion to 'remix' some of my 3D art, and the results are quite intriguing. Attached are some examples: the original of the armored soldier was made with Carrara, the woman with DAZ Studio, and the city with Vue.

One amusing thing is that Stable Diffusion is quite careful not to create anything risqué: notice how the Stable Diffusion woman has modestly covered up, compared to her DAZ Studio original.

Share your own remixes?

Great examples.

Did you run Stable Diffusion on your own computer or on line?

I have heard that to run Stable Diffusion on the computer, one need to have at least 12 GB of VRAM on the graphics card.

I run it locally, more is always better, and you get going from 6GB onward (there are a few settings you can set for low VRAM)

Ok, thanks. My graphics card has 8 GB of VRAM.