Jan_Scrapper said:

Yes, Cararra is a pain if I can just do the same thing in DS.  You have opened a new world for me!!!

 

it's less of a pain than Hexagon

saying that as a Carrara user  who wants to use Hexagon too but get endlessly frustrated

as for Blender ...well

I am not willing to subscribe and pay monthly for the DAZ studio Mesh grabber tools, I bought Carrara 15 years ago with a few updates but not in a long time sadly but it still does more than Mesh Grabber

oh and I do use the Geometry editor 

just hope DAZ doesn't get the bright idea to lock that and other tools behind a subscription paywall

cobusp said:

This is very frustrating. I changed the overall size back to 100%, and scaled the actual geometry smaller, but it still does the same thing when converting!

Take the object (to be replicated) into the model room and resize it there. (if the object is a carrara primitive, it will first need to be converted "Edit:- convert to other modeler...")

and there is Bryce and Carrara

Diomede said:

...  it is a mystery to me what is going on with Windows 11. ...

So if you buy a new computer now, would you go with Win 10?  If Carrara is shaky, I might be tempted using third party programs for malware protection.  They have protected me well for years.

jeronimocollares said:

...  I care about storytelling, but I need the visual element...

I share that sentiment, although I try to use animation rather than text & images.  So DAZ Studio is useful for beautiful still backgrounds due to it's long render times, while Carrara is great for animations with very fast renders, using those DS backgrounds.  One of my inspirations is "Classics Illustrated", comic book/graphic novel interpetations of famous classic books, a series that has been through various generations.  Here is an alltime favorite, although only one of the great illustrations is shown here:

https://www.amazon.com/Classic-Illustrated-Moby-Dick-moby/dp/B000R4HGBU

Diomede said:

According to my update history, my most recent update was on October 15th.  But I know there have been updates more recent than that.  So it is a mystery to me what is going on with Windows 11.  At least Carrara is loading without the error now.  

mine have been on

13th Oct

19th Oct

20th and latest on the 26th Oct 

FSMCDesigns said:

myotherworld said:

Thank you both,I will give it a try and see how it goes. At least now I know it won't be a complete waste of time. Thanks for letting me know, have a great week.

Please post your results. I don't have the latest version of DS, but in my years of trying NONE of the FBX figures I have tried to import have worked at all. The mesh is usually distorted and broken and there is usually no rigging, so it will be interesting to see if DAZ have finally fixed FBX import. I know in the past carrara did a great job of importing it.

FBX had some extensive work recently, so previous experience isn't really applicable.

myotherworld said:

Thank you both,I will give it a try and see how it goes. At least now I know it won't be a complete waste of time. Thanks for letting me know, have a great week.

Please post your results. I don't have the latest version of DS, but in my years of trying NONE of the FBX figures I have tried to import have worked at all. The mesh is usually distorted and broken and there is usually no rigging, so it will be interesting to see if DAZ have finally fixed FBX import. I know in the past carrara did a great job of importing it.

Diomede said:

 Carrara is working without error.  Yay. 

That is better news.  

According to my update history, my most recent update was on October 15th.  But I know there have been updates more recent than that.  So it is a mystery to me what is going on with Windows 11.  At least Carrara is loading without the error now.  

Good news. 

There was another Windows update (small one), which I assume was a patch of some sort.  Without me doing anything for Carrara or Python-related files, I am no longer getting the errors.  I guess they figured out they made a mistake and fixed it.  Carrara is Carrara-ing again.  Yay.

Thank you, Steve K, Wendy, and @3Deedlin for checking in on me.

EDIT - now I am not so sure an update fixed it.  I am not getting the error, so it appears to be fixed, but the Windows 25H2 is appearing again as if it hasn't been updated.  So I don't know.  Carrara is working without error.  Yay. 

Diomede said:

My carrara was getting along fine with Windows 11 until the most recent updates.  A security feature that blocks add-ons and sub-routines is wreaking havoc on a variety of programs that I have, including Carrara 8.5 Pro.  The Windows blocks seem random, but who knows.  Here is the most recent obstruction when launching Carrara.  Argh.  Repeat, Carrara was working fine until recent Windows updates, and these issues are not only Carrara issues.

EDIT - in other programs, also getting error warning for Windows blocking python routines associated with add ons.  Even blocked an attempt to update.

That's really bad news. 

Horo said:

I made around 300 HDRIs, Angular Map projection and Spherical projection. True photography based with a Nikon DX50 (DSLR) and later D600 (SLR) with fisheye lenses 8 - 16 mm and rectlinear lenses 35 - 50 mm; daylight, night skies and indoors. I also created true HDRIs from renders by rendering with different light settings, and of course, I also made artificial HDRIs by cheating.
To change the projection, assemble the differently exposed images to an HDRI and stitch them to a panorama, I use(d): HDRShop (not available anymore), Picturenaut, Pano2VR and PTGui.

If you are interested in creating HDRI panoramas, I have some information about the topic on my website (horo.ch). Though most of PDFs are Bryce based, most of it is valid also for other programs like Daz Studio, Carrara, Vue, etc.

Bryce & 3D CG Documents > Mine (PDF) > IBL-HDRI
There are also a few free HDRIs.
Raytracing > IBL and HDRI > Resources > HR-HDRI (S)

Thanks for sharing the link. My main software is Blender, but HDRIs are great as background landscape and Bryce as well as Vue good programs to create such HDRIs.
Valuable information to get an efficient workflow. 

when I modify lighting and backgrounds in this particular scene (the Tea Garden)

I get this weird issue where stuff is there but doesn't render

yes the walls, hedge etc are in the assembly room

and no, they don't render there either

nothing was changed except the background trees deleted and sky settings and lighting replaced

it's happens often on this scene and I have no idea why

not deleting the background trees helps

yes, even sadder lighting as trying to solve the issue

▲ this is 2 minutes an image BTW which is crazy after spending 40 hours rendering the same one with the included lighting

there must be a compromise somewhere

the 40 hour one ▲

soft shadows 3 mins a frame is OK ▲

yes they don't have backgrounds as animated maps or clouds is possibly a cause I wanted to eliminate, will add the matching slightly cloudy carrara sky in post

** EDIT - UPDATE - Issue fixed as per post a few rows down. **

My carrara was getting along fine with Windows 11 until the most recent updates.  A security feature that blocks add-ons and sub-routines is wreaking havoc on a variety of programs that I have, including Carrara 8.5 Pro.  The Windows blocks seem random, but who knows.  Here is the most recent obstruction when launching Carrara.  Argh.  Repeat, Carrara was working fine until recent Windows updates, and these issues are not only Carrara issues.

EDIT - in other programs, also getting error warning for Windows blocking python routines associated with add ons.  Even blocked an attempt to update.

Singular3D said:

TheMysteryIsThePoint said:

hansmolleman33 said:

Singular3D said:

Honestly, I recommend using Diffeomorphic. There are a lot of tutorials on Youtube.

I will check it out, DAZ's lack of support for their own software is irritating.

+1000 I will never understand why this is.

Honestly, I do not understand Daz politics for quite a while now. It seems that they tried to open up for other software with their bridges, but then they seemed to return to the Daz Studio only business. If they want to stay as content provider they have to open up to other software. Especially software that is used in the semi professional area.

In the past they aquired Carrara and Bryce, but didn't invest into the further development of these tools. They are still here, but used by a smaller community and no new native content is released.

I have a huge library of Daz content and I'm so thankfull that a bridge like Diffeomorphic, but also Sagan exists. I would love to be able to convert Daz content without studio to Blender, but this may be a topic for the future. It's mainly about rigs and materials.

Richard Haseltine said:

Daz did develop Bryce (two major versions), Hexagon (only a dot release but they had to finish up 2 after purchase) and Carrara (two or three major versions, I think).

Thanks for the info. Somehow I missed that.
I used Bryce in the past to create HDRI backgrounds and Carrara for Daz content with V4.2, but somehow the features didn't evolve as much as I expected.
The same applies to Vue, which I used as well in the past. Daz on the other hand did develop further significantly. 

staying not straying

Windows 10 like Carrara is not broken, why mess with things

Not ruling out a new PC one day and latest OS but I wasn't even affected by the AWS outage because I don't web browse much, at least on PC, have an iPad for that and a smart TV for YouTube, which shows me heaps of ads  I only dislike the timing of them sometimes, with all the Ai you would think they wouldn't cut off commentry mid sentence.

Silver Dolphin said:

If you want to save some money just use Blender. I own 2x Nvidia 3090's and I use one on my Blender machine and one on my local AI machine. If you don't want to migrate to Win11 when support for W10 goes away ZorinOS is a nice linux distro that looks and feels like windows. You can install Daz studio on this but it is a little fiddly. I would just recommend running Blender.

OK, thanks.  A long time favorite vendor of great landscape scenes for VUE switched over to Blender some time back.  I have tried Blender and just can't get my head around it.  I finally have gotten serious about learning Daz Studio and am finding it more friendly than I originally thought.  I am a long time animator using Carrara and will continue to be, using DS iRay renders as backgorunds. An example is at 1:56 in this short animation:

Singular3D said:

TheMysteryIsThePoint said:

hansmolleman33 said:

Singular3D said:

Honestly, I recommend using Diffeomorphic. There are a lot of tutorials on Youtube.

I will check it out, DAZ's lack of support for their own software is irritating.

+1000 I will never understand why this is.

Honestly, I do not understand Daz politics for quite a while now. It seems that they tried to open up for other software with their bridges, but then they seemed to return to the Daz Studio only business. If they want to stay as content provider they have to open up to other software. Especially software that is used in the semi professional area.

In the past they aquired Carrara and Bryce, but didn't invest into the further development of these tools. They are still here, but used by a smaller community and no new native content is released.

Daz did develop Bryce (two major versions), Hexagon (only a dot release but they had to finish up 2 after purchase) and Carrara (two or three major versions, I think).

I have a huge library of Daz content and I'm so thankfull that a bridge like Diffeomorphic, but also Sagan exists. I would love to be able to convert Daz content without studio to Blender, but this may be a topic for the future. It's mainly about rigs and materials.