protosynthetic said:

Richard Haseltine said:

protosynthetic said:

When this was released, a high-end computer would have been a spanking-new two-core processor, an unheard-of 4gb of RAM since 64-bit operating systems were barely a thing, and a GPU with 512MB of VRAM. Your current computer literally is better than the network you could build with this.

Why would that matter? I don't see any reason to believe it would throttle performance to what was then common, though I can't say whether or how well it works on modern systems.

One of us is not understanding the other. I was saying that this program would be moot, considering current computers have faster processing power and better memory capacity than an old network. As in the problem that this program solved no longer exists, unless you're still working on a Core 2 Duo.

It seems like you're both right. If the software does run on modern hardware then it might still serve its intended purpose. It's also possible that modern computers are so capable that most people wouldn't need a cluster of them for Carrara. Now excuse me while I use my Soundblaster card to produce waveform audio one could never get from the built in PC speaker. 

When I started on this path - and really started to leverage aniMate 2 more, I started to think that GoFigure had designed aniMate to bring a Carrara NLA sequencer into Daz Studio. 

While working in aniMate 2, we're using the best tweener that Daz Studio has - but that tweener is not user-facing, so we can't leverage it in the timeline. Weird. They just never added it as an option - but I've been told that it would be doable via script or plugin - which is what aniMate 2 did.

It's a bezier clamped tweener. Bezier Clamped is like a standard bezier with the exception that it will never exceed the highest value* nor will it go lower that the lowest value* - meaning that it doesn't do the wonky behavior that often occurs when using bezier for things like facial animations (eyes start going buggy, mouth goes more than closed, etc.,) 

* Highest and Lowest values used by us in our animation - not to be confused with limits. This will work as expected whether limits are enabled or not. Handy!

"Baking to the Timeline" - As the name implies, "Baking" is the process of mapping where everything is on each frame and making a key frame of everything. So Baking will result in a key for every frame of animation. That's what baking is in any animation software.

This can be handy when we need to utilize other sorts of interpolation - like Constant, Linear, or Daz Studio's TCB - which is a bezier interpolation with fields for T - tension, C - continuity, and B - bias.

I'm not handy with adjusting the TCB tweener yet - but it's done by selecting the keys to be edited and typing values into the fields on the lower left of the application.

Daz Studio is capable! I'm shocked! I dug into Content Creation Tools to make it so... but after doing that (and it's easy to do) animating in Daz Studio just plain ROCKS!!!

I'm looking forward to doing more stuff between both Carrara and Studio. 

Diomede said:

WendyLuvsCatz said:

... I have not tested it as don't have Poser installed but....

Oh, I wonder if the reason my VWD stopped working on my main machine because I uninstalled Poser.  I thought you could use it independently, but I may have installed it improperly to do so.

I had it working on my Win7 without Poser 

it still works there but have Poser7 on that rig now too

it's Philemo's bridge that won't work for me on Win10, throws an error opening Carrara if extension added

on the bright side, I have not tested it as don't have Poser installed but since unlike Poser cloth it creates morphs along the timeline, you shouldn't need the Dyn2Morph script to load the pz3 scene into Carrara

so later Poser with Python 3 shouldn't be an issue

Well it's certainly at a good sale price atm. AFAIK if you buy it and within 30 days can figure out whether or not it's worth it for you ... you can ask for a refund if you decide no. Worse case scenario the answer is no, so then the bigger question is whether or not you want to gamble.

There may be some Carrara users over in the Carrara forum who could answer your questions. [they do not all come into the Commons]

TLDR: Buyer Beware.

That was released in 2006. I'm not a Carrara user, but I'd be pretty skeptical about this. This doesn't sound like a cloud computing solution. I think you have to build this grid out of your own stash of computers in your facility. The product readme has basically no information. It doesn't even say what operating system it runs on. Is it Windows? What version? Windows Vista was released in 2006. Does it work on Windows 11? Maybe it is not even for Windows. Maybe it is not even for PC. It only says "off-the-shelf computers". Does the licensing company even still exist?

https://www.daz3d.com/grid-for-carrara

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The Grid license is priced to fit within every creative team's budget and runs on standard off-the-shelf computers, so you can easily add this powerful tool without breaking the bank.

Diomede said:

Bunyip02 said:

G2F Aviatrix

This must be one of the ones you gave notes on how to use that free plugin to help load content that is not always cooperative with Carrara.

Excellent!

Thanks !!! That free plugin does have it's uses, but Carrara is my goto for scene setup and rendering !

Bunyip02 said:

G2F Aviatrix

This must be one of the ones you gave notes on how to use that free plugin to help load content that is not always cooperative with Carrara.

Excellent!

Mec4D The Aviatrix for Genesis 2 Female(s) - https://www.daz3d.com/mec4d-the-aviatrix-for-genesis-2-female-s

When loading the wings to the figure just as you would a piece of clothing an Error message came up. After this trying to load any other clothing just resulted in Carrara hanging needing CTRL-Alt-Delete to escape.

Solution - Loaded G2F into DAZ Studio and applied the flying pose to G2F.

Next I fitted the wings to G2F.

I converted the Wings to Blended Weight to be sure to be sure.

Saved the Wings as a Scene Subset.

Then I loaded the wings scene subset onto a posed G2F figure in Carrara.

the Gathering in Carrara 

took the fam to see the lion king at the pictures when it was released... 30 years ago wow! 

Bunyip02 said:

Relaxed Sunday Cute Textures - https://www.daz3d.com/relaxed-sunday-cute-textures

The clothes were autofitted to G2F and converted to blended weight in DAZ Studio, they were then saved as scene Subsets, which were then opened in Carrara.

Looks good.  I did not understand a word until the last three.  

Relaxed Sunday Cute Textures - https://www.daz3d.com/relaxed-sunday-cute-textures

The clothes were autofitted to G2F and converted to blended weight in DAZ Studio, they were then saved as scene Subsets, which were then opened in Carrara.

Kara Hair for Genesis 3 Female(s) - https://www.daz3d.com/kara-hair-for-genesis-3-female-s

Wicked Party Dress - https://www.daz3d.com/wicked-party-dress

Both the hair & dress were autofitted to G2F and converted to blended weight in DAZ Studio, they were then saved as scene Subsets, which were then opened in Carrara.

Sexy Librarian for Genesis 2 Female(s) - https://www.daz3d.com/sexy-librarian-for-genesis-2-female-s

Glasses - caused Carrara to hang needing to CTRL-Alt-Delete out. Saved as a scene subset in DAZ Studio after which they loaded okay.

Shoes not included.

an AI video I made, no Carrara and 3D are not yet redundant but about 33% of this was done on my own computer

(Foocus SDXL, Stable Video Diffusion)

the rest all free AI sites for images, animation and music

I still do 3D anination too but this was DAZ studio for no other reason than it was easier to do clone shape autofitting from all the other figures to Vyusur's Catoon there

I intend doing one in Carrara with the better fur but need to save every piece of clothing as a blended weight support asset and jump over to my Win7 to use VWD so rather a lot of work

greetings earthlings,

hope everybody is well !!

been designing a chess set recently to three d print, workflow Carrara then Mexhmixer and blinder to sculp, then Carrara to join up the meshes, then Microsoft 3d Builder (nice little program) - oddly Carrara does a better job putting together complex meshes into one obj. than the fancy doodah 3d builder 

anyways, trying to get vwd to work. and failing miserably ... I am using VWD Cloth and Hair - Version 2 

could do with some help if anyone knows the answer

I get this error "Index de liste hors limites (1)"  - which I think means my horse has stepped over the boundary :)

this is my error log 

 

Thread ID 30928 15 (i)  Log subsystem started in elapsed time mode.

Thread ID 30928 15 (i)  Logging [debug info (D), info (i), notices (M), warnings (W), errors (Er), fatal errors (!!)]

Thread ID 30928 15 (i)  Buffered mode: False

Thread ID 30928 15 (M)  Service thread started

Thread ID 30928 359 (i)  Temporary rendering context created

Thread ID 30928 359 (M)  Getting OpenGL entry points and extension

Thread ID 30928 359 (M)  

Thread ID 30928 359 (i)  OpenGL rendering context information:

Thread ID 30928 359 (i)  Renderer     : NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070/PCIe/SSE2

Thread ID 30928 359 (i)  Vendor       : NVIDIA Corporation

Thread ID 30928 359 (i)  Version      : 4.6.0 NVIDIA 536.23

Thread ID 30928 359 (i)  GLSL version : 4.60 NVIDIA

Thread ID 30928 359 (M)  

Thread ID 30928 500 (M)  Getting OpenGL entry points and extension

Thread ID 30928 562 (i)  Backward compatible core PBuffer context successfully created

Thread ID 30928 562 (M)  Service context successfuly initialized

Thread ID 24648 812 (i)  Temporary rendering context created

Thread ID 24648 812 (M)  Getting OpenGL entry points and extension

Thread ID 24648 937 (i)  Temporary rendering context destroyed

Thread ID 24648 937 (M)  Getting OpenGL entry points and extension

Thread ID 24648 30562 (i)  Service context queue task depleted

Thread ID 24648 38000 (i)  Temporary rendering context created

Thread ID 24648 38000 (M)  Getting OpenGL entry points and extension

Thread ID 24648 38140 (i)  Temporary rendering context destroyed

Thread ID 24648 38140 (M)  Getting OpenGL entry points and extension

Thread ID 30928 73359 (M)  Service thread finished

Thread ID 24648 73375 (D)  Service thread destroyed

Thread ID 24648 73375 (i)  Logged fatal_errors: 0, errors: 0, warnings: 0, notices: 11, info: 15, debug: 1

Thread ID 24648 73375 (i)  Log session shutdown

ps

Managed to salvage half my stuff by transfering one of the drives to my backup.  Software wise, both machines were identical, DAZ, Carrara, Octane, so I think I can live without a second computer.

Good to know your back, @Diomede.

3WC said:

Awesome. I have only watched chapter one so far, but definitely want to continue.

Animation is very smooth and natural, just the right amount of humor. It is interesting to notice what is going on in the background during certain scenes, nice attention to detail.

I hardly want to watch DS animations anymore because the quality is generally poor, but this is a notable exception. (I assume it is animated in DS, if I am wrong I apologize. Maybe it was exported to Blender or Carrara?)

Thank you! I hope you like the other chapters. A lot of fun of animation can be the little details you put in the background that you don't know if anyone will notice, but it's fun to just add them. I used to animate in Daz & Poser (my Star Trek: Aurora episodes were done that way), but I finally had to bail because some of the essential plugins I used (particularly Mimic lip sync) aged out. Doing animation well on this level is a lot of work and requires a lot of patience--it can take a year to create 10 minutes of animation when you do it yourself--but I enjoy the process and the challenge, so I'm able to have fun with the journey as well as the destination. It also doesn't hurt to have some expensive hardware and an understanding wife LOL. I still use a lot of Daz assets--most of the characters began as Michael 4 and Victoria 4--but I bring them into iClone to animate there. By and large, Daz assets are better than those from iClone, so I keep coming back for sets, props, and characters. CC/iClone does a pretty good job importing the Daz characters, tho I wouldn't mind if Daz worked more directly with iClone. Any, afgain, I hope you enjoy the other chapters!

Awesome. I have only watched chapter one so far, but definitely want to continue.

Animation is very smooth and natural, just the right amount of humor. It is interesting to notice what is going on in the background during certain scenes, nice attention to detail.

I hardly want to watch DS animations anymore because the quality is generally poor, but this is a notable exception. (I assume it is animated in DS, if I am wrong I apologize. Maybe it was exported to Blender or Carrara?)