Forum: Carrara


Subject: Omigosh, it's Free!

MarkBremmer opened this issue on Feb 15, 2001 ยท 10 posts


mclarsen posted Sat, 17 February 2001 at 2:28 PM

The multi-view works just like in Carrara except there are a couple of more combinations. In other software, this would be considered a major numerical upgrade as you wind up with almost a completely new Poser after installing the pack. They have really listened to the user base and packed a lot of improvement in this "pack". The only difficulty with bones I'm having (I'm busy converting my western worms to Poser figures to make animating them easier) is aligning the bones properly; meaning that as long as things are fairly straight and symmetrical it's pretty easy, but if you have several items that curve, such as curved fingers, then alignment is more challenging. I think the problem is that all the other bones are visible behind the ones you're working on; all the white lines and triangles get confusing. This will just take practice to overcome, hopefully. So, as a tip for creating figures in Carrara (or elsewhere) to go into Poser, keep all the elements and poses as straight as possible to make "boning" easier. My question to Curious Labs is if they are preparing a plugin for Carrara as they have for 3DS and Lightwave. Poser seems to have much more in common with Carrara than the other two. I've written them with that question. mclarsen