Can anyone tell me What are the benefits of Cararra5  Pro over Carara5?

cheerio  lululee

Is far as I can see the benefits are few and mostly concern network rendering. This is one product where "Pro" really means "Pro". If you're not a professional studio, you probably don't need it.

Is there a difference in the rendering quality between Cararra5 and Cararra5Pro?

cheerio  lululee

Attached Link: http://www.eovia.com/products/carrara5/carrara_pro_vs_std.asp

The transposer plugin would have to be added to C5. About 100.00$. And you lose the wicked renderspeed and new tools. How I read it...

What is the difference between Hexagon 2 and Carra?  I thought Hexagon was Carra?

This has been asked before. Hexagon is a high-end modeler with rudimentary rendering ability; Carrara is a high-end renderer with limited modeling ability. Hexagon competes with Rhino; Carara competes with Vue.

Quote - Carrara is a high-end renderer with limited modeling ability.

Uh.. I don't think eovia (or Daz) agrees with you on that one. Carrara is a modeler with a great rendering engine and some extras like landscaping tools. Hexagon is just a modeler, it can't render at all (it can do a lame impersonation of a render but...)

Hexagon has some nifty modeling tools that Carrara hasn't got, but then Carrara has some other. They compliment each other nicely :)

I was wondering what the main differences were too between the Pro and standard version. Why would you still need the Poser Transposer plugin if Carrara 5 now supposedly imports Poser files (.pz3, .cr2 )? Just wondering...

sandman, Guessing here,,, I understood transposer2 imports everything. This is standard in C5pro. C5 does not come with Transposer2 but can be appended.

when I called them last year, they said it would be slightly cheaper to buy pro, than to buy regular and all the add-ons, if one feels the need for those add-ons. but they may have been having a sale at that time, a special offer or something.

Quote - Why would you still need the Poser Transposer plugin if Carrara 5 now supposedly imports Poser files (.pz3, .cr2 )?

Transposer takes the mesh as it is from Poser and imports it into Carrara. That means that all magnet settings, dynamic clothing/hair, geometry swapping, settings from remote controls (like PoseMagic, Apollos ADS dials,...) can be imported into Carrara and looks just the same as in Poser (same meshbending). And you cannot pose the Transposer imported figures in Carrara as no boning information will come through (only a solid mesh). Using Carrara's native importer won't get the stuff from above right, but you can then pose the figure in Carrara, load poses (regular, MAT, injection) etc. But not all will work correctly right now.

Thanks Dizzi...I knew there had to be a reason!

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Quote - > Quote - Why would you still need the Poser Transposer plugin if Carrara 5 now supposedly imports Poser files (.pz3, .cr2 )?

Transposer takes the mesh as it is from Poser and imports it into Carrara. That means that all magnet settings, dynamic clothing/hair, geometry swapping, settings from remote controls (like PoseMagic, Apollos ADS dials,...) can be imported into Carrara and looks just the same as in Poser (same meshbending). And you cannot pose the Transposer imported figures in Carrara as no boning information will come through (only a solid mesh). Using Carrara's native importer won't get the stuff from above right, but you can then pose the figure in Carrara, load poses (regular, MAT, injection) etc. But not all will work correctly right now.

So neither solution actually works properly in getting poser content into Carerra then?

Quote - So neither solution actually works properly in getting poser content into Carerra then?

The only application that imports Poser content properly is Poser ;-) With Transposer you can open a Poser scene and keep editing it in Poser and update it in Carrara (as long as you've choosen to keep a link to the file). Keeping a link and updating will also not overwrite any shader settings you've changed in Carrara.

Quote - > Quote - Carrara is a high-end renderer with limited modeling ability.

Uh.. I don't think eovia (or Daz) agrees with you on that one. Carrara is a modeler with a great rendering engine

Anyone who has tried to use the vertex modeler in Carrara knows why Phantast said what she said... Outside of vertex modeling it is good, but Carrara's vertex modeler is sub-par at best. And the problem here is that most Poser focused modeling is going to need a vertex modeler.

...the C5Pro vertex modeler has been vastly improved over previous versions.  Only glaring omission to me is symmetry.