LocusSolus opened this issue on Feb 09, 2008 · 16 posts
sparrownightmare posted Fri, 15 February 2008 at 8:46 AM
I was reluctant at first to attempt to do a complete scene entirely in C6 Pro, then I decided to try it for my x-mas contest entry this year. Before; when I had used Poser to create the figures and then imported them into C6 Pro, they were such resource hogs that C6 would cough and die on my after 2 -3 characters were imported. But; when I opened my mind to trying C6 entirely, all of my issues disappeared. I could much more easily create figures and moving figures was much much easier than in Poser. Adding contend (clothes, textures, morphs etc.) was a snap. I no longer had to wait forever for Poser to update its library tab every time I switched folders. And even the Advanced Library program worked with C6, so I needn't have any more problems looking for a particular piece of content. And finally, Carrara renders tended to blow Poser out of the water. Lighting is easier and indirect lighting makes a scene really come to life. I haven't touched poser in about a month now... Go C6 Pro, you will not be disappointed.
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Specially have a look at the light on the Nanette (it's her name) shoulders. Night and Day. Cloudy and sunny. Dull and brilliant, Sad and happy. just go to the market page, and type "Nanette" in the search engine to get the full size pic, and you will be convinced.So, what about or poor D|S? Waste basket? Personnaly I'd prefered to spend (If I have had) $249 with nice stuff rather buying P7. After having notice that the $249 price of Poser7 in Europe is... 249€ (not $!), after having lurked all around the Daz forum about this subject without finding the most little topic of worrying, after wondering that, even here, (a class upper forum regarding the level of consideations) there was not really a lot of warning, I was about to decide the killing of sweet models from Santa's gift, and to buy Poser7. What a pitty! But, but...
but just I remembered a good old Software I got last year for $35 in a DAZ-promo bundle, CARRARA5, a software I never used, but which I upgraded for free to Carrara6 in my downloads room at DAZ, just because I like what is free.
And innocently, I opened the momified box, installed, registered, and loaded the software, and opened the "materials" room. In less than ten minutes I had got the answers to my questions:
- Does Carrara6 manage procedural knoise textures? YES!
- Does Carrara6 manage SSS (Sub-surface-Scattering)? YES!
- Does Carrara6 manage primary textures filtering? YES!
- Does Carrara6 manage Fresnel effect? YES!
Oooohhh! Here are they, my inescapable skin-shaders nodes. Why not build my figures (not full scenes, figures only, separatly rendered) in D|S as usual, and make final render into Carrara6 with these enhanced, rocky, killer, killer functionalities of the C6 engine?
So here is my question: Is it reasonable for me to spend time with learning the use of C6 to work around the terrific Lack-late-lag of D|S, or should I immediately renounce to a lot of my purchases for the price of Poser6?
Thanks for Your answers. I post this on booth Rsity's Carrara Forum and Rsity's Daz|studio forum simultaneously.
Good place here. Friendly, LocusSolus.