Forum: Carrara


Subject: Too early to start wishlist for Carrara4?

nomuse opened this issue on Jun 08, 2004 ยท 35 posts


Animoottori posted Fri, 18 June 2004 at 1:48 AM

I think NURBS are a bit too much to ask but a Rhino-like interface would be awesome. A graphic display of how positions and other values change in animation. I think the current way of selecting and displaying the tweener mode is not informative enough. Also the possibility to copy tweener and data from one object to another could be handy. Rotation sucks. Values swap between XYZ unexpectedly. I once spent hours trying to get one ball to rotate correctly. Carrara has the ability disagree or forget the values I input. This is annoying. For example it has many times forgotten the constraints I've set for a bone. As many have mentioned the metaball-modeller isn't very practical. There should be the possibility to input values from the keyboard. I like the vertex modeller but it could be better: -Extrusion uses inches although the other program uses centimeters. -Duplicate with symmetry mirrors the duplicate always along Z-axis and ALWAYS way farther than I want it to. The same yellow vertex that is used in scaling and rotating could be handy here too. And the possibility to select mirroring axis. -Symmetrical modelling. A manual that contains only information that is true with the present version of the program. What is the button on the left upper corner of the sequencer? Tooltip says: animate. But unpressing it won't help me moving unanimated objects where they should be when the current time is not 0. I can naturally move the object but when I move along timeline it returns to its origin. Adding and removing files from a started batchlist. If an isometric viewport is active and I want to track the perspective view closer or farther of the object, I must first activate the perspective view with whatever tool I have active before I can activate the track-tool. Activating the perspective view with zoom and pan tools distort the perspective view. After inputting values to the properties tray one cannot change the current tool without clicking on some of the viewports. You can only guess how many times I've had to rewrite the values after pressing t, z or some other keyboard shortcut. There is definately more but I cannot remember at this point. -HK