It has been awhile since I posted here, since I have been sidetracked with other projects.

Recently I have been using Carrara to make models for 3D printing, however I am rusty ! ;)

At this point I need to resize a part for a press fit, so I need to resize the part down by 0.004" , but there are only 2 decimal points (0.00)  showing in the resizing area.

Where can I increase the accuracy down to 0.000"  ..... I have looked, but can't find.

McGuiver

Thanks for the feedback.  

I have been reviewing some recent Digital Art Live information on some 'cutting edge' modeling techniques.  It combines with AI, so I suspect it will meet big resistence.  In the past, these have shown up in the Daz3D store, so fingers crossed for this recent one.  I have quite a bit of old material I would like to update.  For example, I have several full scripts for Brash Lonergan and Moxie Espinoza resolving chaos on the galactic frontier. I wish Carrara had received basic updates for file formats,   etc.  I still do quite a bit of the concept art and blocking out scenes in Carrara.  It is a shame that Carrara did not get basic updates. It is just too much hassle to convert my growing motion collection to Carrara-ready rigs compared to Blender rigs.

WolfStar said:

Really bad decision on the part of Daz. 3Delight could do things that Iray simply can't.

I've built up thousands of dollars worth of content since the Studio 2 days that doesn't work correctly any more thanks to this. In fact, the majority of my content is older stuff that predates iray.

I guess I can either go back to Carrara, or see what Poser has to offer? AFAIK, Poser still supports the original Firefly engine and thus still supports Daz "legacy" content.

Old content with Poser materials will geenrally require work in any application, 3Delight materials will not work in Poser.

It is all very well complaining about dropping 3Delight, but the fact remains that it could not be integrated into DS 2026 (or any version with a newer Qt framework) - asking daz to keep distriibuting 3Delight is asking them to pay a license fee for something that will work only in older versions of DS. You old content is no more compatible with the current version of 3Delight than it is with Iray.

As long as you have the installers for 4.24.0.3 you can still use 3Delight, though it is of course a worry that they may be lost or that an OS update might break them.

Really bad decision on the part of Daz. 3Delight could do things that Iray simply can't.

I've built up thousands of dollars worth of content since the Studio 2 days that doesn't work correctly any more thanks to this. In fact, the majority of my content is older stuff that predates iray.

I guess I can either go back to Carrara, or see what Poser has to offer? AFAIK, Poser still supports the original Firefly engine and thus still supports Daz "legacy" content.

Diomede said:

Khoe said:

Hello everyone, after a long break I've started working with Carrara again. The break helped me gain new insights; I was able to improve my lighting setup quite a bit, and this is a new result.
 

Looks great!  

thank you :)

Khoe said:

Hello everyone, after a long break I've started working with Carrara again. The break helped me gain new insights; I was able to improve my lighting setup quite a bit, and this is a new result.
 

Looks great!  

Khoe said:

Hello everyone, after a long break I've started working with Carrara again. The break helped me gain new insights; I was able to improve my lighting setup quite a bit, and this is a new result.
 

Looks good, pretty spooky.

Hello everyone, after a long break I've started working with Carrara again. The break helped me gain new insights; I was able to improve my lighting setup quite a bit, and this is a new result.

after they had an awesome cloth system taken away, I really cannot blame them

I wish I could get VWD to work again in Carrara on Win10,  so know the feeling

my Win7 where it mostly, not always worked, isn't booting up

wishlisted later version but never goes on sale

too much risk it won't work to pay full price

Philemo's bridge works in a pared down extension load of Carrara, its VWD itself freezing 

DAZ studio Dforce Inagoni imported Sagan exported obj series are frigging massive folders of files but my only option

and Dforce sucks

VIDEO CLICK

Richard using his cat-wheel

wheel made by Stezza https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/comment/9447156/#Comment_9447156

export it as obj or FBX from Carrara for DAZ Studio (disclaimer, not tried yet)

I assembled one from Temu but my cat Lucy, ignores it

Anyone watching the debacle with posercloth over at rendero forum? Just like Carrara users with bullet physics and clothes ... bit sad

IncitatusEclipse said:

Btw, yes, I am upset that DAZ has basically decided they don't want to support the appoximately $10,000 worth of content I have built up since the Studio 2 days. But I guess I can go back to Carrara. It's old, but still more powerful than Studio.

Or you can go back to the old betas, that is, if you actually backed them up... (I have yet to download the beta that doesn't have 3dlite included)

Most people here don't, and then find they are out of luck as there's no old betas available for download.

I prefer other options such as save the thumbnail you wish like iClone6 can

(as high as I own, assume later versions do it too)

or untick thumbnail option as one can in Carrara 

(which is only visible in Carrara content directory in Carrara itself anyway)

of course you can replace the duf and tip png images with a nice quality render

Stezza said:

Carrara Cubes galore! 

ants, containers, tables, chairs and lifesavers 

Also a huge fan of the B.C. ants, some of my favourites. My sister used to have that Tupperware, cool! 

Carrara Cubes galore! 

ants, containers, tables, chairs and lifesavers 

IncitatusEclipse said:

Btw, yes, I am upset that DAZ has basically decided they don't want to support the appoximately $10,000 worth of content I have built up since the Studio 2 days. But I guess I can go back to Carrara. It's old, but still more powerful than Studio.

Btw, yes, I am upset that DAZ has basically decided they don't want to support the appoximately $10,000 worth of content I have built up since the Studio 2 days. But I guess I can go back to Carrara. It's old, but still more powerful than Studio.

WendyLuvsCatz said:

you could save them as scene subsets but adding new deltas might be tricky

bit like saving them as Carrara files

I still sneak an M4/V4 in a scene every-so-often and that's how I save 'em - and that works for saving and reloading later... but I'm wondering if somehow saving a loaded Poser-based figure and its morphs as an 'asset' instead of a scene would convert all of the loaded Poser obj meshes and morphs into .../data/... dsf style geometry, uv, deltas and related files.

If it's possible, I can't imagine there isn't a recipe out there somewhere by now.

best,

--ms

you could save them as scene subsets but adding new deltas might be tricky

bit like saving them as Carrara files

Installed both Carrara & Bryce no problems. Don't have the space to load all of the addons for both so they will be minimal installs.