steerpike opened this issue on May 19, 2006 · 27 posts
Morgano posted Fri, 19 May 2006 at 6:03 PM
The character on the left is practising levitation, which is one of the problems with trying to fit imported Poser figures into Carrara landscapes. Carrara can be used to modify poses, but you lose the connection to the original Poser file. Both Vue and Carrara have a bit of a problem for Poser users, in that their supplied landscapes (or V5I ecosystems) aren't ideally designed for putting figures into, because the features of the landscape are large-scale. You can use a Carrara mountain as a small, rocky outcrop, but, somehow, it always looks more like a mountain (it may be something to do with the snow on top ;¬) ). Carrara's trees are hopeless. You can't use them without extensive work in the texture room. Vue's aren't wonderful, either, but they are the right colour, roughly, and there is good commercial content for Vue. Both have limitations for importing Poser figures. You can hit memory problems very quickly. V5I has better recovery than Carrara 5. If V5I says it is trying to save your work, I think it means it (not always true in earlier Vues). Carrara hits memory-related buffers much too readily and that usually means a visit to the Task Manager, even when you haven't remotely exhausted available memory (I have had that today, when Carrara reached 600+ Mb, on a system with 2Gb, and gave up). I get the impression that hair slows down Carrara renders a lot and that water (reflections = raytracing, presumably) makes Vue renders take forever and then some.