Diomede, now I have your same problem. Strangely enough, I did not until yesterday. While nothing has changed in my Windows 10, 64-bit, as far as I know, I suspect the problem could be some hidden update of the operating system....
Anyway @3deedlin was right in posting the Fenric tips: nothing of the suggested points above worked for me (I tried them*), but the offending item is in fact Fenric's ERC plugin (in my case, at least).
So, the temporary solution, in case you do not need it, is to remove ERC modifier from Carrara's extension folder. Carrara will start again.

* For a moment, installing the Visual C++ runtimes 2013 seemed to fix the problem, but after 4-5 launches Carrara started crashing again like before.
It seems like the operating system has some issues with the Visual C++ runtimes or something like that. I hope the next Windows update will fix this.

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The Rules For This Months Freebie Challenge are:

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2. There will be a Maximum of 5 purchased items.
3. Base figures (All Gen 2,3,4, and Genesis 1,2,3) as well as their general morphs packs (Morphs++ and similar) do not count as a purchased item or a freebie and may be used as needed
4.Your Rendered Picture must be a new render and postwork is allowed but you MUST include a before and after Postwork versions of your entry in the Entry Thread.
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My hat is off to you for helping develop Creech.

Here is one of the (poor) renders I made.  It may be in Carrara or Poser - I'm not sure.  In other work with him, I tried animating and found him to be a good figure to pose.

wolf359 said:

Imago said:

wolf359 said:

Mimic is officially dead

Just keep a backup of any DAZ Studio 4 32bit version and you will be OK.

I hope they will make a new version of it in the 6 version.

 

 

I am mostly doing 2D animation these days
But I still have the old Mimic3 pro studio on 
one of my old laptops.

 

I'd be glad to pay a couple of hundred books to have it built into a 64-bit version of DAZ Studio. I still haven't seen anything as good for what it does. 
 

 

@wsterdan

The 32 bit mimic software was licensed from another 
long dead company with no license provision to recompile it for 64 bit according to a Daz forum mod.
so unless Daz creates a new 64 bit audio based lipsinc feature themselves 
you will have to continue to use the old 32 bit under DS 4.X
or wait for some third party Like Dobit ( Anilip 3)
to create some new option compatible with DS 2025

Thanks for the extra info, much appreciated. I am -- as always, these days -- mildy confused; I assumed it was DAZ who used the code to make the Carrara and Lightwave 64-bit plug-ins, but those were from the same era of Mimic itself so it may have been the owner, but they also made the 64-bit Mimic Live years later.

It's more than a little frustrating that they *didn't* license it for 64-bit DAZ Studio when the chance was available, but such is life.

Thanks again, for all your help and info.

anyway my Carrara tangent not really topical to this thread, was just musing about what could have been

I can grow style and simulate my own hair in Carrara and do, on everything 

clothing, body, head, other objects like cars 

cannot type without typos though

Squishy said:

If you export the hair from D|S as OBJ format (make sure you have "Write Polylines" checked) and then import it into Carrara what do you get? Anything?

e: these are my export options I use to go to Cinema (i.e., these get splines out of D|S hair and into Cinema)

 

busy rendering so cannot look but Carrara can actually load the duf files which are polylines (with weightmapping if rigged)

and yes can import obj too as strips, triangular tubes or just polylines depending on settings 

the latter not much use though as I said, the former way too big to be useful 

this is not something someone who is not familiar with the Carrara SDK can likely help with and that includes me

I know absolutely nothing about coding either except Carrara apparently uses C++ and according to Philemo much is not revealed in the SDK including how it's hair works but DAZ added it so they would know

but

again no longer in development 

If you export the hair from D|S as OBJ format (make sure you have "Write Polylines" checked) and then import it into Carrara what do you get? Anything?

e: these are my export options I use to go to Cinema (i.e., these get splines out of D|S hair and into Cinema)

Squishy said:

WendyLuvsCatz said:

it is visible in Carrara's vertex room but has 0 vertices

it has points and lines

so as far as Carrara is concerned it is not geometry and I cannot render it there even though it imports rigged even

I have tried many options which is a shame as something is there

it honestly would probably not take much to enable Carrara to see it as hair but beyond my scope

if you can get it into another app as splines, then you can sweep those splines and make polys that can be rendered. this will probably be super heavy to work with because as I said, this will triple or quadruple the vertex count (the sweep polys if you use triangle or square - more if you use something smoother) and you can work with materials to get something in the ballpark.

I have exported them as mesh and yes are horrendous

but

Carrara hair it'self is a type of spline just not user facing

Philemo, one of our third party developers made a plugin to convert those hairs to strips or tubes

so as I said, I suspect Carrara is capable of rendering it if it could be made to see it as hair

sadly Philemo hasn't been heard from for 3+ years now

BTW Poser hair too is a type of Spline and there is a hair converter for that too

WendyLuvsCatz said:

it is visible in Carrara's vertex room but has 0 vertices

it has points and lines

so as far as Carrara is concerned it is not geometry and I cannot render it there even though it imports rigged even

I have tried many options which is a shame as something is there

it honestly would probably not take much to enable Carrara to see it as hair but beyond my scope

if you can get it into another app as splines, then you can sweep those splines and make polys that can be rendered. this will probably be super heavy to work with because as I said, this will triple or quadruple the vertex count (the sweep polys if you use triangle or square - more if you use something smoother) and you can work with materials to get something in the ballpark.

it is visible in Carrara's vertex room but has 0 vertices

it has points and lines

so as far as Carrara is concerned it is not geometry and I cannot render it there even though it imports rigged even

I have tried many options which is a shame as something is there

it honestly would probably not take much to enable Carrara to see it as hair but beyond my scope

Khoe said:

Is the Lux render still available for download somewhere? I can only find the plugin for Carrara

What are you trying to find?

There are 2 luxrender plugins:-

The first one "Luxus" was sold in the store. It requires luxrender standalone (1.6). link on post 2 ( https://wiki.luxcorerender.org/Previous_Version )

The second, was "luxuscore" it does not need luxrender ( the plugin is self contained, it includes luxrender). Link for download (beta version) is available on thread linked to on last post.

DIM is the only DAZ program that shows up in the Start menu

Carrara, Hexagon and DAZ Studio 4.23 and 2025 are not there.

Today I modelled a weird looking thing that is popular in some countries around the world. I came across it yesterday ( I think you have to be 16 and younger and female to know about it! ) 

Carrara hair and boned and morphed... from the cube

the funny thing is, I actually have converted Carrara hairs exported as mesh to curves that can use the iray omniHair shader

only issue is they can only be static props, so I can actually make those nondforce noneditable strandbased hairs

https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/comment/8833171/#Comment_8833171

to rub it in to us who do animations that the only ones who can apply Dforce to Strandbased products can choose not to do so perhaps? 

Carrara and Poser were 10 years ahead of DAZ in hair simulation technology and when DAZ finally implimented it in their flagship program they did so to laugh in our faces.

That is how I feel and you cannot tell me otherwise,

Hair in my product Library filter brings up 19 pages which is a thousand hairs by filter alone so it's not as if I don't buy hairs

I actually would use it for things other than hairs if I could like I do in Carrara

hell if they didn't stop developing Carrara I wouldn't even care about their Dforce hair

Having used Creech in Poser and in Carrara a few times, I appreciate the work you're showing here and am enjoying the irreverent persona you've given him.

This isn't a carefully thought-out art critique but for what it's worth I find nothing glaringly wrong or jarring in the visuals - so they are well-done.  That isn't meant to be faint praise - they take their place, to me, as a background while the dialogue is at the fore.  The dialogue is straight to where my eyes go to with each frame/page.

(I don't speak as someone who has done such nice work).  Hope there is more to come.

calms, clams, carrara.... what the! 

Is the Lux render still available for download somewhere? I can only find the plugin for Carrara

Mediac needs this thread

you accidently posted in the Carrara forum which is a different software to DAZ Studio

https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/728111/daz-studio-2025-alpha-version-6-25-2025-11206#latest