Fettbemme said:

Why Carrara is still LOVED

So much so, that I bought the 64 bit version of Carrara 8.5 alongside Cinema 4D and Blender and to my already existing License of Carrara 7 Pro, 3D World edition

 Fettbemme, I envy you ;-) because I tried to find that issue of 3D World but was never able to put my hands on it. It also included Mimic for Carrara, if I recall correctly, which now for some reason is unavailable and inactive in the Daz store

very cool is Carrara 

ProPose said:

I actually learned this trick from one of the lessons from Phil's Realism Rendering tutorials quite a while ago. Using disp. maps to create props and stuff.  Just plug in a disp or hight map in the terrain editor,  change the terrain shader to multi-chanel in the shader room, add the corresponding textur maps, and you get some pretty good looking floors, wood, tileor stone,  and walls like brick or wood.  I generally use a 1K disp map to get good results, 2K at the most.   Any bigger like 4K or 8K the resulting terrain is humungus in file size and slows down performance. Use 1K or 2K disp map the generate the terrain and 4k or 8K for the color and bump.  If you don't have a disp map, you can use a normal map instead which works not to bad.

I'm just amazed how good the Carrara Displacer really is and that without Plugins.

In the example I used an 8K displacement map..

Fettbemme said:

There have been numerous example scenes of greeble-like cities.

Carrara has a very powerful displacer more powerful than Cinema 4D.

In this small clip I show you how you can use any texture you like to generate cityscapes or circuitboards and the like.

I used for the Texture the free program JSplacement which is (was) very well known.

Thanks. I've been using Carrara for (mumble, mumble) years and have never tried this.  Still finding new features ... 

There have been numerous example scenes of greeble-like cities.

Carrara has a very powerful displacer more powerful than Cinema 4D.

In this small clip I show you how you can use any texture you like to generate cityscapes or circuitboards and the like.

I used for the Texture the free program JSplacement which is (was) very well known.

In case you want to try this for yourself.
The first render is with the Phong Tesselation Plugin and the render below is without.

So much to shooting the "messenger" …

 

 

with Phong Tesselation Plugin

 

without Phong Tesselation Plugin

The RRRR is back for another round!

This time the theme is....  No, no theme this time, just pull, setup and render.

RRRR stands for Random Runtime Roulette Renders, and it's a contest that has been running for over seven years until it needed a well deserved break. We invite anyone to enter, specially all those new users who have shown up the past years. This is not the usual make a very nice render contest but more like tell a really great story, often fun, with your render!

How does it work?
Make your pull of 4 items, and if your any Lucky Bastards, you pull one extra item per LB.

Who can play?

Anyone can play!

How do you prepare yourself for play?

The rules are very simple, but first you need to have all your items in some kind of order in a text file, dumped from the itemized history into a text file or a spread sheet. Remove things like software, gift certs, and special plugins from the list and items that wil not work with the software you work with.
 For example if you have items for Poser, Bryce or Carrara, and want to use DAZ Studio, remove those other items from your list. If you have loads of older figures, M3, M4, a ton of non Iray stuff and you only want to use Studio with Iray, remove all the junk from you list. 

Then you use a randomizer to randomly pick items from your list (your Runtime/My Library) for your start pull . You can use items from any store. Now build a scene with those 4 items plus any other items you want to add to make a fun scene. For newcomers I heartly recommend looking at the previous contests below to get ideas how you can do this. 

Working randomizer:: https://www.random.org/integers

There are some situations where you allowed to redraw, these are:


- You pulled something that doesn’t work, broken thing, only works in a version / software not used etc etc, or you forgot to remove that item from you list even though you knew it wont work, or figure that out later.
- You pulled a software or add-on to a software or anything you should have filtered out from the list.
- You pulled only huge environment props and will not be able to render a scene without crashing.
- You pulled an item you already have been using in two RRRR renders in this content and that was picked randomly. Three is a curse - rule!

Lucky Bastard Rule!
I say this again: If you have Lucky Bastards, you pull one extra item for each LB you have, simple as that. 
Explaination of Lucky Bastards. 
Lucky Bastards, or LBs, are a form of handicap system which makes the contest a little more difficult for those who have won. No lucky bastards are in play now, but will be for the next run.
 

Lucky Bastard Standings

Player	Current LBs
Luci45	2
Totte	1
acb	2
katfeete	1
1stbastion	1
katywhite	1

How to play?
You pull, you compose and you Render. You post your images and pulls in this thread (Don't miss that, entries without pulls and posts in this thread will be disqualified!!).
Then the entry should also be posted in the Entries only thread

Bundles
If you pull a bundle, use two or three complete items from it, or more if you like, but you do not need to use all, but only picking a hairpin from Victoria 8 Pro Bundle is “too little”. Clarification: A bundle still counts as only one pulled item.

Poses, Expressions and textures/colors
If you pull a pose pack, an expression pack or a texture/color pack, you only need to use one of them, not all. For example if you pull 500 expressions for Genesis 8 Female, use one, if you pull 128 colors for Frappe Hair, use one.
Accidenty breaking the TOS
If your entry is removed by the forum mods because it accidentally, not deliberate, broke the TOS, you do not have to redo that entry but can move on and make a new pull. 

The rules of madness! 
Now you have successfully and randomly picked your items, make a scene, you can add other items as well but the one you picked should be prominent or cleverly used. Render it, post it and make us all laugh! Remember though that the renders must follow the TOS of the forum. As we have a theme on the contest, the render should in some way touch that theme. 

The contest categories! 
There are two categories Best and Funniest. Every image will compete in both categories.

Contest duration!
It starts now at  Wednesday July 31, 2024, and will go on until Sunday September 22, 2024 at 23:59:59 local DAZ time.

This months sponsors so far:
Totte (Code 66) is sponsoring with two items from his store
Elliandra is sponsoring with two items from her store
 

We want more sponsors!

Do you want to sponsor the RRRR?
Please chip in a gift card sponsorship, sponsors can play, they should play, they are even extra encouraged to play, as sponsors always plays for keeps.

Maximum number of entries? 
For this round it will be a maximum of 9 entries per player.

So, good luck and start your render engines!

I have 80 items in my DAZ Poser directory, from Poser 11, various variants of DAZ Studio, Vue, and associated programs.

I keep returning to the trusted Carrara for my renders and scene setups, have only rendered about 25% of the models that I have collected, still got plenty of renders to go !!!

mingle47_ee72c8b871 said:

.... I also work with Bryce and Poser.

I used to for a long time, but not much anymore.  You might want to consider VUE, which is now free and VERY powerful.  There is also a tutorial series by the venerable GeekAtPlay on using Daz Studio with VUE.  With Carrara, Daz Studio and VUE, I feel I have the tools I need.

therixx said:

3drendero said:

Some of the freebies are useful in Carrara, like the G3M for G2.

Thank you, Still do not know how it works, but I grabbed it ;-)

You will need that plugin called DAZ Studio to use it.

1. Fitting G3M shirt to G2M in Carrara without using Blended Weight conversion (Note hips coloured Grey)

2. Fitting G3M shirt to G2M in Carrara using Blended Weight conversion, T-shirt saved as Scene subset

3. Fitting G3M shirt to G2M in Carrara after autofitting to G2M in DAZ Studio then using Blended Weight conversion, T-shirt saved as Scene subset.

Blended Weight conversion in DAZ Studio

3drendero said:

Some of the freebies are useful in Carrara, like the G3M for G2.

Thank you, Still do not know how it works, but I grabbed it ;-)

Some of the freebies are useful in Carrara, like the G3M for G2.

Carrara NON-PHOTOREALISTIC (!!!)

the working city

All of the above. Now I have some spare time I am getting back into C8.6. A big bonus os that most (all?) of the commercial plugins that extend Carrara are now available at no cost. Certainly a wealth of modelling and rendering options in an easy to use interface. I also work with Bryce and Poser.

Joy Rides in Carrara 

Bunyip02 said:

Headwax said:

Stezza said:

Bunyip02 said:

Stezza said:

so, I bought Poser13 

Full program or upgrade ?

Humble Bundle is currently selling Poser 12. If you don't own Poser 11 or 12 then purchasing Poser 12 from Humble Bundle and buying the upgrade will save a few bucks.

Was looking at upgrading my Poser 11 but my C-drive is getting low on spare memory.

yep, I did that for $35AU then upgraded to 13 while it was on sale  

I put all the software on my X: drive and content on my E: drive and leave C: mainly for the OS 

 

whats poser like now ??

thia is a facebook link so will vanish 

I saw evil posted, wow!!

thi

Yep, what's Carrara compatible with release 13 ?

In release 11 some of the later figures have rigging issues in Carrara

 

you're not wrong about the figures.. they are more wacky jointed than.... ummmm... yep.. 

I did get a heap of props as well but don't know if they are in V11 as I don't have it.. I have Poser 7 and P2012 and now 13.

tsarist said:

Carrara is still loved because it's so versatile. It renders quickly, interface is intuitive. Animation is easier to do than in anything else. It uses Gen 1 - 6 Natively. Plus you can use Poser people up to Power 8. I still load newer Power buildings in C8.5. I truly love Carrara. It's a good old friend

Well said.

i used to use poser to fix up xdresser refitments via the fall off zones. Also good for that shrink brush to adjust morphs to a target obj. wish carrara had that!! Philemeno was working on somtehing similar bi=ut that 

Headwax said:

Stezza said:

Bunyip02 said:

Stezza said:

so, I bought Poser13 

Full program or upgrade ?

Humble Bundle is currently selling Poser 12. If you don't own Poser 11 or 12 then purchasing Poser 12 from Humble Bundle and buying the upgrade will save a few bucks.

Was looking at upgrading my Poser 11 but my C-drive is getting low on spare memory.

yep, I did that for $35AU then upgraded to 13 while it was on sale  

I put all the software on my X: drive and content on my E: drive and leave C: mainly for the OS 

 

whats poser like now ??

thia is a facebook link so will vanish 

I saw evil posted, wow!!

thi

Yep, what's Carrara compatible with release 13 ?

In release 11 some of the later figures have rigging issues in Carrara

Carrara is still loved because it's so versatile. It renders quickly, interface is intuitive. Animation is easier to do than in anything else. It uses Gen 1 - 6 Natively. Plus you can use Poser people up to Power 8. I still load newer Power buildings in C8.5. I truly love Carrara. It's a good old friend

I started out using Daz for my animation way back with Daz 1.8. Once Carrara got the aniMate plug in, I started using Carrara 6 for my animations & haven't looked back.

I use Carrara 8.5 Now. V4/M4 re my workhorses. Earlier generations are my background players, filling out scenes. I do sometimes use Gen 6 stuff to be leads in animation now.

Daz still somehow hasn't caught up in terms of animation. I don't know why. Carrara is just that good.