NylonGirl said:

I got that book too. It had a lot to do with me joining the forums. I got into my first argument over how I had paid for Victoria 4 with the book but the DAZ store expected me to buy Victoria 4 again to get the upgrade to Victoria 4.2. Or something like that. The book also had a lot to do with the first time I got a post deleted because I recommended to somebody to not buy the book, on the grounds of it being a scam or racket. Or something like that. I'm typing this on a phone. I'll bet the auto correct has managed to sneak something crazy into this post.

they honored my ownership of Carrara 7 with it for  upgrade to 8

and so 2025 is about to leave us..... 

Hopefully all you Carrarians et al will have a safe 2026 

the last Carrara cube modelling for this year, boned and morphed 

Thank you Steve :-)
Yes, great novel indeed!

Oh, I forgot to mention that the Xmas Tree with Tinsel Carrara Format is by our Diomede.

Better, I'll post the list of the stuff that got into the image:

3D models:
Michael 4, Mon Chevalier Hair, Millennium Beard M3, Santa Suit M4 (Mortem Vetus)
Victoria 4, Mitsu Hair, Morphing Fantasy Dress MFD, Mage M4 (hat), Stylish Shoes Anklewrap Pumps, Moon Broom
Victoria 3, Fairie Dress Wings Wand, Updo Hair 2
Anardhaus, Chocolate cup (apcgraphicos freebie Rendo Holiday 2014), Holiday accessories (gifts stocking wreath), Xmas Tree with Tinsel (for Carrara by Diomede)

Carrara browser: Pitcher2 (category >> Home)

Chocorabbits and Chocobars made by me.

Yes, I have learned a lot from Geek at Play.  I did try Blender when a favorite VUE vendor (RaffyRaffy) switched form VUE to Blender, but I could not get my head around it.  So for now, Carrara is my main animation tool using backgrounds from Daz Studio and VUE, just no camera movement. I still have a lot of great VUE products including earlier ones from RaffyRaffy.   I do some animation in VUE which does not take forever like DS (see above for my CPU & GPU specs).  I'm hoping DAZ will get the new DS version that supports nVidia 50xx iRay soon, as I mentioned.  Sorry to hear VUE does not support iRay materials, those are a big attraction for me.

Thanks again.   

"Tell us again how you managed to arrive here, please..."

My most faithful readers know that this is a crossover
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crossover_(fiction)
with the legendary Saga of the Chocorabbits
https://www.riccardocorso.it/galleria/pics/feste/ciocconigli/index-en.html#2025
(year 2025)…
Best Wishes to you all, my fellow Carrarists.

----
Carrara 8.5 Pro Render.
No A.I. was bothered asking it to do this as a commission for me.

WendyLuvsCatz said:

nobody seems to care but I did find a solution 

not a happy one because it won't work in Carrara as well (maybe a Poser format animation will)

but saving as an animated properties preset works

for the few other people who do animation hopefully this will help if they encounter the same issue and can find this post in the forum search

Thanks, i recently started animating again after taking a break for several years, jumping from DS 4.12 to 4.24, so it was hard for me to remember what worked in the past vs what works now. So I appreciate it. 

olde carrara renders , my favourite joke about two blondes

I am trying to atlas a Goldtassel hair with 10 separate cutout opacity maps to reduce VRAM and also make use in Carrara easier

but Texture Atlas only sees the diffuse and normal map which are both just single maps anyway 

conversion to 3Delight with Riversofts script didn't solve this either

the hair surfaces all have the same UV just different strand arrangements via opacity to create realism, it has many surfaces 

https://www.daz3d.com/two-phased-bob-for-genesis-2-&-genesis-3-female-s

Flipmode said:

Dartanbeck said:

- the incredible epiphany of 2023 - 

Love the wording, sounds like a big historical event! ;)

Dude, you are making me blush, thanks for all the praise and for purchasing my stuff.
Really happy to read how you enjoy it and find it useful for your animations.

I had a peak at your YT vids, it´s really cool. I used to toy around with Animation in Daz Studio, so I know it´s a lot of work and not easy at all.
The way you made use of the length of Road to Nowhere is awesome, finally it payed off to build it that way. ;)

I fear my upcoming winter set may be too cold for Rosie though. ;)
(Btw., congrats to moving her to Genesis 9, I am still stuck with Gen3 characters)
 

The wording is Very Meaningful!

Back when I was making Daz 3D products for Carrara, and Daz Studio 4.0 was brand new, our good friend Josh Darling was teaching stuff about many of the amazing figure-creation tools that are coded into Studio - and I took a particular interest.

The epiphany came to me as I was truly stuck trying to figure out how to actually animate my characters in Studio. It truly feels like it fights you every step of the way. Remembering those Content Creation Tools, I developed my own way to obliterate the need for common animation tools and build my joint adjustment parameters directly onto the figure. Bam! Epiphany!!! 

Now I don't even want to animate my characters in anything else! Anything but characters? Sure. Why not. But my characters have a permanent home in the software that everyone has agreed is the last place to animate... well... anything! I say screw that! And now I'm making a movie!!! :)

Truthfully speaking, however, with ThePhilosopher's iReal series of animated props, Josh Darling/DimensionTheory's Animated VDB series, and other animated scenery and effects for Daz Studio, I never really leave Studio until I take all of my renders into DaVinci Resolve's Fusion and craft it all together. So Fun! And, since I really only had that epiphany back in 2023, I'm really only getting started! 

Road to Nowhere! Ouch! What a great setup!

The car and animated Rosie are actually not moving through the scene - I have the scene moving underneath them! The cliffs being part of the HDR Dome... hmmm... how do I... aha!!!

I used the good ol' Dolly Zoom! Zoom the camera while changing the focal length of the camera to maintain the aspect... BAM! It's a pretty cool effect! :)

Praising Flipmode? Well... that's only because you So Totally deserve the praise and a whole lot more! These sets remind me of how a movie director/producer might work for scenes like this. Lush, superbly detailed matte-painting environment settings, with cool, detailed sound stage setup for the characters to act out the scene in. So Very Awesome - especially for someone who needs to work without tons of system resources. 

Very nicely crafted scenes - every one of them that I've bought so far. When that happens to me, I follow the artist and collect everything. It's a boon to my workflow while showing appreciation, support, and interest to the creative mind behind it all. So I truly hope that my small contributions help to inspire you toward your next great thing - so I can buy that too! :)

You ROCK, Flipmode!

Flipmode said:

@Dartanbeck
Thanks mate, glad you are enjoying the sets!

OMG!!!

Okay, here's the thing.

I've always enjoyed your Easy Environments in Carrara. Very handy and easy/quick to set up and get going. Then comes how they look - and they Look Outstanding!!!

So I find that dForce hair by Linday and my attention is drawn to figuring out how to bring that into Carrara - for months I tried. All the while (during my failures) I was seeing Iray and the more modern (Genesis 3 and 8) Genesis figures in Daz Studio and started asking myself: Why am I trying to bring this into Carrara?

Long story a bit shorter, my journey into Daz Studio was blissful, but being an animator coming from Carrara... there was still a period of loss and confusion. Meanwhile everything was different. The learning curve going from Carrara's excellent multi-core CPU render engine to the incredible wonders of Iray - a world where everything we buy from the daz 3D store that is meant for Iray just loads in looking perfectly REAL without having to modify the shaders... it was brilliant, yet a massive learning curve.

Once I figured out the amazing method of animating - the incredible epiphany of 2023 - everything just got smoother, easier, faster, and so much fun and joy that, against many people's prods and quips, I never want to leave Daz Studio - so I don't.

Fairly recently, something happened and I happened upon that EXO-Planet kit, and it looked perfect for the Jungle Girl thing I was going for - especially since she's also a space/time/dimension traveler as well in her many personas... so I bought it and loaded it into the scene I was already working on and it just blew my mind how amazing it looked and how easy it was on my meager system. I use mCasual's Change Orient script all the time. I can set the origin of the entire scene to be where Rosie is and manipulate it from exactly where I'm looking - so I aligned one of those incredible root bridges under her feet and ran the animation... OMG!!!!

So now I'm back into it again - collecting up all of the Flipmode I can get my hands on! 

I brought in the Solar System that you released years and years ago... OMG!!! I Love that! I love the support pages you provide with links via the product pages!!! So Cool!!! I have a 1972 Criterion RV-6 Dynascope (telescope) that I got from a college storage room - no refelection left on the mirror, tracking mount didn't work, tube was in bad order....

I sent the mirror to Majestic Coatings in NJ, I think it is? My wife and her sisters bought me a TAL-6 Russian tracking mount for the thing - and when ordering it, the guy asked if I wanted one with Russian electronics (original) or one with the Sky and Telescope US conversion done to it already - of course, living in Wisconsin, I opted for the latter! 

Anyway... so I like looking at our celestial tapestry from our dark, Northeastern skies.

Having this Solar System with the wonderful information cards on each planetary body... So Good!!! 

I can't put it in here as it violates TOS, but on my YouTube channel I have a glimpse of the Solar System in the beginning of my video entitled: "What Happened at Odysseon Station Act I WIP"

I Love the aniBlocks!!! I Love that you made aniBlocks for it!!! Thank you So Much!!!

Flipmode... this Forever Fan is grateful for all of your hard work, artistic style, inspiring enthusiasm, outstanding support, and ultra-efficient workflows! 

So I really can't say this enough: Thank You!!!!

I admit I don't know what is causing your issue

but

I do know it is NOT D|S4.24

the Ai is telling you that and you are believing it and the Ai is wrong

it could be a myriad of other issues but the build of DAZ studio is not the issue

I don't really use TD3 much myself as I use Carrara, Twinmotion and Unreal Engine mostly for terrains so don't pretend to know a lot

only that the change in iray only affected lighting

DISCLAIMER

I am not an ai hater, it is an agnostic tool

I do use it

but it has limitations and one cannot rely on it, it can only work with the parameters of the data it was trained on and much of that data is false because it is trawled from the Worldwide web and a lot of stuff on the web is untrue

nobody seems to care but I did find a solution 

not a happy one because it won't work in Carrara as well (maybe a Poser format animation will)

but saving as an animated properties preset works

for the few other people who do animation hopefully this will help if they encounter the same issue and can find this post in the forum search

Stezza said:

I added some morphs to his hat and added Carrara fur for the fluffy bits and zipped it all up along with a morphing present 

it's all in the zip file to frig around with and weight paint, morph or whatever it is you do with wacky stuff 

 

 

This is a most perfect Grinch!!  Thank you so very much for him!  I have opened the Grinch in Carrara and saved as an obj.  I opened in both Daz Studio and Poser.   I don't know how to add bones and such.  However, I can use him in your pose.  He's so cute.

yes, it's possible, I have used Skyrim and other clothing meshes but that particular case is more trouble than it's worth

the main thing is to make it match the base shape for the transfer utility 

that could mean using temporary rigging to move limbs inside DAZ Studio or in Blender etc (I use Carrara myself) any program capable of rigging and weight painting is suitable 

in DAZ studio baking joint rotations on a temporary load of Genesis9 (DONT SAVE IT!)

can work, posing and sizing it to match your clothing then with the rigging tool selected right click select edit bake joint rotations

use the transfer utility with that figure as source

pose and resize that dressed figure to match the original G9, edit figure convert to object on the clothing NOT the figure 

unparent it and delete the modified G9

DON'T save the modified G9, you can mess up the original if you do

it certainly is more efficient for animation if one could load and queue bespoke render files in a standalone renderer

its definately what the big studios do

but yeah licensing is always the catch

DAZ Studio being freemium ware is the issue 

programs by companies such as Autodesk have such capabilities and I think even D|S can save files for renderers like Mental Ray

incidently Carrara has its own standalone render version 

I think Bryce does too

Poser had PovRay

he would need to leave Carrara to set them up for DAZ Studio though

that could be traumatising 

Thanks Wendy... updated the Carrara downloads and the entry 

I couldn't find it at all 

WendyLuvsCatz said:

...

but one really doesn't need the feather vanes etc to be dynamic, that's getting ridiculous 

Made me  

WendyLuvsCatz said:

...

...

I recall trying to make a quill in Carrara with dynamic hair

I've done a few non-hair things with strand-based - it can work really well. It kinda seems possible to do "feathers" but it's an ask with that editor to get a look that isn't too strandy and also isn't too neat ... probably depends on the style of fletching being sort - modern fletching, of the style maybe being sort (given the OP) looks like this: https://i.ytimg.com/vi/Du6rrTDXk6U/maxresdefault.jpg

... That's an ask to do well

Might well also depend how prominent the arrow and fletching would be in a render ... in this example () https://www.daz3d.com/gallery/user/5444756578500608#gallery=newest&page=1&image=1351734 , you can barely see it, so strand-based might well work (that arrow and bow is from https://www.daz3d.com/medieval-style-dforce-outfit-for-genesis-9 )

admittedly PAs could do a better job of arrows with dynamic strandbased hair as have the plugin and don't have to use DAZ Studio Strandbased editor

but one really doesn't need the feather vanes etc to be dynamic, that's getting ridiculous 

I recall trying to make a quill in Carrara with dynamic hair

Santa gets a helping hand from the Grinch - I used Carrara Cam which sees into the future and it got me this snapshot of the Grinch being helpfull... or is he....

Carrara Freebies
Carrara the Grinch
https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/comment/8450461/#Comment_8450461

naughty elf
https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/comment/8489281/#Comment_8489281

a cubed wacky Grandfather clock
https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/comment/9288916/#Comment_9288916

wacky plumber's Christmas tree with baubels!
https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/comment/7215586/#Comment_7215586

Freebie Bookshelves and Easy to Customize Book Model by Diomede
No one asked me - Diomede screenshots on whatever - Warning AI Discussion OK - Page 50 - Daz 3D Forums

other freebies

KA Camper Van
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Bx8TA5da4EHIX0FTU09JNjRfdVE/view?usp=drive_link&resourcekey=0-YC4lISsRektmrS-Qzyd_FQ

Lost Freebie Links
KA Christmas Presents - can't find the link... probably the elf knicked them!

same with Santa which was a freebie by 3DUniverse
and the Christmas fireplace... sheesh....

PAID ITEMS
Carrara 8.5 Pro