no bull, the Comm games have started

so I got my Carrara cube and modelled a cow ... ooops a bull 

Hope you don't give up, this program is super useful even for its tiny file size compared to obj. Like I said, exporting the materials at all isn't really necessary if this program is intended to work with Diffeomorphic as manually linking materials is easy in Blender, its only a problem if you have to do it one at a time. But the ability to export animations is great!

I really wish DAZ would just abandon DAZ to Blender and just work with you and Diffeomorphic. Sure, Sagan is a little buggy- but it functions in the first place and the bugs are actually minor.

I do know that DAZ has a tendency to buy up software and then stop supporting it, which I'm not happy with either as a former Carrara user.

In happier news- apparently your plugin is recognized by the people over on Blender's stack overflow, I found out when I mentioned it in a kind of tutorial and the editor went through and linked to here. Folks are aware of what you're doing and do care.

Yes, I'm figuring on how to make that tutorial for you, I'm just wondering if a lesson on material linking and organizing should be part of it.

WendyLuvsCatz said:

Ippotamus said:

I do have some free invites to Midjourney if anyone is interested in trying it.

Though I can not be held responsible for any existential crisis that may follow.

it's open beta now but I use all my free goes in one day 

only credit card for subscription sadly not Paypal

but that might be a good thing as I will need to actually make an effort to buy a prepaid toppable card not linked to my bank account

so keep rethinking

Maincoon cat and Cockerspaniel dog owners are unhappy BTW, get flagged for banned words and threatened with account closure

https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/571401/the-future-and-artists-redundancy#latest

was a thread in the Carrara forum I started but I feel this is a wider community topic

Pandora has opened her box

I was surprised about the Paypal.  Hopefully someday.

I did the basic 10$ sub... I think that might be enough once the newness wears off. 

Right now, barely enough.  I don't consider it art, per se. 

But it is fascinating. 

Ippotamus said:

I do have some free invites to Midjourney if anyone is interested in trying it.

Though I can not be held responsible for any existential crisis that may follow.

it's open beta now but I use all my free goes in one day 

only credit card for subscription sadly not Paypal

but that might be a good thing as I will need to actually make an effort to buy a prepaid toppable card not linked to my bank account

so keep rethinking

Maincoon cat and Cockerspaniel dog owners are unhappy BTW, get flagged for banned words and threatened with account closure

https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/571401/the-future-and-artists-redundancy#latest

was a thread in the Carrara forum I started but I feel this is a wider community topic

Pandora has opened her box

LOL I have that second one for Unreal Engine and possibly have also rendered it in DAZ but more likely Carrara, cannot recall

video

video inspired by some MidJourney ai renders I have seen on Facebook but done using Carrara

with Deepdream style transfer and EbSynth video transfer on right

if you still have your old PC then copy over the Poser Runtimes to the new one and tell Carrara where it is... that's what I would do. 

3drendero said:

 Carrara still works 

I'll second that statement.  I use it daily.

Bunyip02 said:

ed3D said:

Steve K said:

ed3D said:

And how to make an Carrara  "explosion"   of any kind  ??

thanx ~

Maybe not what you're looking for, but I use "Particle Illusion" which has a free standalone version (I use the not free plugin version in Vegas):

https://tinyurl.com/wuv78t4r

Here is an example from an old 48 Hour Contest video "Be Mine" (explosion @ ~ 5:00):

_ Alright then  ,  will  check-into  this _   Good Explostion  ,  Thanx ,    

Billboards - Jepe's ElementZ - https://www.daz3d.com/jepe-s-elementz

Alright then Thanx 

 Bunyip02  said:
  Would have needed a fair sized crossbow bolt to bring that Dragon down !!!

Yeah , it would  // 

Bunyip02 said:

ed3D said:

Bunyip02 said:

ed3D said:

And how to make an Carrara  "explosion"   of any kind  ??

thanx ~

ed3D sounds like a fun render you have in mind !!!

_  while looking at web , saw an thing where they had a illustration of those bombs often seen in TV shows & Movies 

and decided to make one with Blenders 2.79B _ not sure of thickness of fuse   Thanx 

Making progress, will be interesting to see how this scene pans out !!!

well , thanx   

hello everyone!! glad to see that the carrara community is still going strong!
              now, i use mostly carrara to install the positions of my characters, before finishing them in zbrush; on my old computer, i had poser, which was only used to install in the "runtime", and then i opened in carrara; i changed computer, the disk of poser is god knows where! ... is there a way to reconstitute this work flow, with daz studio, thus using it only as a "stock"... I don't know it at all, as a program, although I worked for a long time with carrara...; thanks for your help!!!

Diomede said:

Thanks for the comments on my toonish dragon, Bunyip and Headwax.

Andrew, sending positive vibes to your family.

Enter the Dragon!

Bruce Lee seems like an obvious subject.  Simple scene with Genesis 2 Lee 6 and one of the Carrara hairs from the from 5 times a lady product.  I used the 3D paint tool to create opacity maps to try to get the red markings.

Here is an interesting article on the making of Enter the Dragon.  https://www.slashfilm.com/791736/bruce-lees-enter-the-dragon-wasnt-inspired-by-other-kung-fu-movies/

me and me mates with some girls used to frequent the local drive-in ( gone now ) when we were in our teens to watch Bruce Lee movies... including Enter the Dragon

during half time the lads would be jumping all over the cars doing their kung fu moves.... cars were pretty tough back then 

great render to bring back some old forgotten memories  

3drendero said:

There are many 2.25$ items today, some should be Carrara compatible.

I think five Poser format, I bought four.

WendyLuvsCatz said:

Bunyip02 said:

WendyLuvsCatz said:

well I just found one (duf props) that stuffs up Carrara though it loads in the scene outliner

https://www.daz3d.com/muelsfell-alchemist-table

I have found a few that won't load. Also a problem with some figures after converting to blended weight the skeletons/rigging refuse to work in Carrara.

Normally resort to obj export/import for those ones....

converted all the figures to props inD|S and saved a scene subset which works  

Nice work around !!!

Bunyip02 said:

WendyLuvsCatz said:

well I just found one (duf props) that stuffs up Carrara though it loads in the scene outliner

https://www.daz3d.com/muelsfell-alchemist-table

I have found a few that won't load. Also a problem with some figures after converting to blended weight the skeletons/rigging refuse to work in Carrara.

Normally resort to obj export/import for those ones....

converted all the figures to props inD|S and saved a scene subset which works  

SteveK - love the example.  Thanks for posting the fire vid.

ed3D - good modeling on the bomb.  Hard to say about fuse thickness with just the bomb as reference.  I think it depends on relation to other objects in the scene.  Is the bomb itself big or small relative to a human hand?  I'd say it looks great as is, but if you scale the bomb up the fuse might look too big next to another object.  Looking forward to the project.

UB - it is not you.  it DID get a lot warmer in here.  That is a hot one.  

Bunyip - always enjoy seeing people get great art from the older figures.  M3 enjoys his pet wyvern, and it appears mutual.

Wendy - I like the blue color palette.  I will have to check deepdream out.

Syezza - I want to collect all the Carrara cards.  How many will there be?

Diomede said:

Thanks for the comments on my toonish dragon, Bunyip and Headwax.

Andrew, sending positive vibes to your family.

Enter the Dragon!

Bruce Lee seems like an obvious subject.  Simple scene with Genesis 2 Lee 6 and one of the Carrara hairs from the from 4 times a lady product.  I used the 3D paint tool to create opacity maps to try to get the red markings.

Excellent thinking out of the box !!!

WendyLuvsCatz said:

well I just found one (duf props) that stuffs up Carrara though it loads in the scene outliner

https://www.daz3d.com/muelsfell-alchemist-table

I have found a few that won't load. Also a problem with some figures after converting to blended weight the skeletons/rigging refuse to work in Carrara.

Normally resort to obj export/import for those ones....