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Subject: Power Pack Ex Now Available

bretford opened this issue on Feb 19, 2003 · 12 posts
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bretford ( ) posted Wed, 19 February 2003 at 10:52 PM · edited Wed, 22 January 2025 at 5:06 PM

Lost Horizon Software (www.losthorizonsoftware.com) is proud to announce the availability of the Power Pack Ex. It is a collection of 5 plug-ins that provide Carrara with some much needed extra functionality. It is priced at $29.95. Any purchaser of the original Power Pack can download and use PPEx for free. Here's a brief description of the plug-ins - more information, the docs, and some renderings are available on our web page. Tracer Allows 2d images to be loaded and traced over Gradient Shader Add powerful coloring to procedural shaders, similar to POV-Ray's gradient capabilities Blurry Reflections Create realistic blurred reflections Fresnel Effects Simulate the reflection and transparency properties of real glass. Particle Sprites Creates more believable particle effects by forcing them to face the camera at all times and allowing proper texture mapping. Brian Retford Carrara Extensions www.losthorizonsoftware.com

ewinemiller ( ) posted Thu, 20 February 2003 at 6:47 AM

Hi folks,

This is cool stuff, with Brian's new Gradient Shader, I took the Dead Moon from the Shader Ops resource page and in just a couple of minutes turned it into a planet!

Check it out.

planettexture.jpg

Best regards,
Eric Winemiller
Digital Carvers Guild
Freeware and commercial 3D extensions
http://digitalcarversguild.com

Eric Winemiller
Digital Carvers Guild
Carrara and LightWave plug-ins

Kixum ( ) posted Thu, 20 February 2003 at 1:42 PM

Very cool stuff! -Kix

-Kix

cckens ( ) posted Thu, 20 February 2003 at 2:16 PM

WOW!!! When I originally purchased the Power Pack I thought that I had kinda wasted money as they included the Power Pack in Carrara. Now I see a whole host of new stuff that I can add to it to make C more interesting!!! Thanks Brian! Ken dork.gif

twillis ( ) posted Thu, 20 February 2003 at 2:29 PM

COVET!!!!!!!

MrMongo ( ) posted Thu, 20 February 2003 at 7:11 PM

Can't wait for the max os X version! Money's ready and set aside (even will get cognito this wkend, thanx eric!) mongo


keithw ( ) posted Fri, 21 February 2003 at 9:32 AM

Great news! I can't wait to try Tracer. It does work in the vertex modeler, doesn't it? Keith

bretford ( ) posted Fri, 21 February 2003 at 10:14 AM

It actually works in all the modeller because it simply floats above the Carrara interface. This means it doesn't zoom and pan with a modeller view, but it's still extrememly useful (IMHO) Brian

chuckerii ( ) posted Sat, 22 February 2003 at 9:52 AM

I'm also very interested in the Tracer... is it anything at all like "PhotoModeler?" I realize PhotoModeler is a very detailed piece of software, but to be able to create models from traced photographs would be great. Brian, do you have any examples you can show us... IE: a model you have created and the photo you used to create it? Thanks. Chuck

bijouchat ( ) posted Sat, 22 February 2003 at 12:42 PM

I'm just going to burn my cc, just burn it... I gotta have this!

willf ( ) posted Sat, 22 February 2003 at 2:41 PM

Attached Link: http://www.konfabulator.com/

Looks great. The Tracer option would be very useful. As I understand it it is a floating image on top of the Carrara interface. Does this mean the user can adjust the transparency of the image? Quartz in Jaguar (Mac OS 10.2) should allow for that. Konfabulator.com has a very cool XML/javascript program that would allow to create "Widgets" for this sort of thing if you can get it to run on top of the Carrara UI.

PAGZone ( ) posted Tue, 04 March 2003 at 4:44 PM

This looks superb. I too will purchase as soon as the Mac version ships! Regards, Paul

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