Ringo opened this issue on May 01, 2003 ยท 42 posts
bijouchat posted Thu, 08 May 2003 at 8:53 AM
caustics and global illumination most likely won't be free in Daz Studio, that is if you get it at all... firefly is just a raytracer, it doesn't do radiosity or caustics and I need caustics. Carrara is the cheapest bang for the buck regarding caustics and global illumination. Poser 5, Bryce and Vue do not have this feature. Vue has a better atmosphere editor granted but that's basically useless for what I'm doing, and I have figured how to generate decent environments for Carrara anyway. There's room for improvement on that though... lets hope for progress there in C3. Go check out the price for C4D or Lightwave with the appropriate plugins and you'll appreciate Carrara's value a bit more. Since I am working on jewelry and using Carrara to help generate good gemstone reflection mappings for use in P5, I find this feature absolutely essential. mick, you might want to think about bringing the figure into Amapi after importing it into Carrara. You can make stuff a lot easier with it... brycetech has a great tutorial cd for Amapi 5-6 too. (his cd helped me get started with Amapi) Amapi 5 comes with C2. Although it doesn't have support for obj, it can import 3ds and some other formats. Items I have created in Amapi 5 import perfectly into Carrara via the RDS importer, where you can then save it back out as obj. You might want to talk to Jaager though, he might have some tips regarding making clothes in Carrara. Personally all I make are simple props in Carrara. Organic stuff I do in Amapi. I upgraded to Amapi 7 and I haven't looked back... g I sooo much love dynamic geometry.