I have been working with AM for about a year on my iMac 700Mhz and things were kinda slow and AM bombed out all the time.. OK, NOW I picked up a G4 867 dual and have the Cararra Demo and not many clues how to get it working.. but in OS X it seems really cool.. Can it do animations at least half as good as AM? Any quick reviews would help in comparison to AM ( if thats fair).. thanks
jerry

I never used AM on a Mac but have herd similar problems with crashes. There are several people here who use C sucessfully for animation (I just do stills). The Eovia site has several examples & tuts for motion. Nice new machine, dual processors will have full support & will help with your projects.

It will do animations about 40% - 45% faster. The results are very, very good. Mark

Hi folks, Jang, i think you can download a PDF file of the manual at Eovia's site ... but i couldn't find it :( . Does anyone know where it is ? Or maybe i just dreamed it ;) Anyway, here's a very good starting point to learn Carrara if you understand american : http://www.computer-training-software.com/carrara.htm The full CD looks really good . You can buy it or ...try to win it here on the forum ! It's the prize for this month's contest :) To Will and Mark : i've been teaching Carrara in a art school here in France, we had some bi-G4 @ 450Mhz but i never could make the SMP option work ... it was all greyed out :( . We were using CS 2.0 unpatched, maybe that's the problem ? litst -----> www.chez.com/litst (tutorials here too)

I downloaded all the documentation for the demo on the CD. It used to be in the dialogue with the link to download the demo after you registered. The documentation is on the resource CD. -Kix

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Make sure to get the patch for C2, it has a fix for the SMP & speed bug in the Mac OSX version. (Congrats litst, sounds like fun)

litst- Are you working in OSX? SMP doesn't work in Ver 9. I haven't had any problem with SMP working on my dual 1Gig with OSX.

Thanks for the info guys ! Well, we were on MacOS9 with no patch for Carrara, so ... ;) Happily we haven't rendered a lot of GI scenes ! To Will : thanks, yeah it was very fun ! :)

Thanks for all the Carrara help here... Jang What a great 3D Machine it is indeed... Found a bunch of tuts at Evoia and other places.The Demo works fine on OS X here but I will look into that patch sombody mentioned right after I buy this thing and perhaps a little more Ram too. Thanks again ... jang

to learn carrara well, simply read the manual. it is by far the easiest read i've ever experienced. just be obsessive compulsive about it for a month and a half and you'll be an expert in no time.

I'd add to what Pixelicious said : to learn Carrara well, have fun and experiment ! (even more important than reading the manual IMO)

Don't forget to check out all the tutorials on this site too. Kix does some great ones. I have learned much from these. There are also several others on the net. Do a search on Google.