Gang, presently I have Carrara Studio 2 (2002 vintage).  In there I cannot adjust the horizon any which way.  I've finally made the big step to Carrara 5 pro.  Can one adjust the horizon in that puppy so I don't have the ground level showing behind me mountain ranges etc (without plunging the camera into the ground)?   Thanks Jan

This has always been one of my sticking points with the Carrara Realistic sky system.  You can disable the ground, but to get rid of the annoying horizon line, you still have to set the horizon to some very large negative nimber.  It's kind of trial and error.  I normally increase the size of the plane I am working on to extend as far as necessary and drop the horizon to about twice the x or y axis size of the ground plane I am working with.  So If i have created a terrain in inches which is 1000 inches long and wide, I would drop the terrain to -2000 inches and play width the camera height until I had the desired effect.  I wish you could just turn the darn thing off completely, Its not a very good horizon anyways. :)

Thanks for the fast reply, Sparrow.  When I get "me" Carrara 5 Pro, I'll do it.  Jan

You might want to consider getting 6 Pro.  It has some nice improvements, especially with using Poser content, and is quite a bit more stable.

I considered c6p.  However, my computer won't support it properly--sniffle.  Jan

It's not as resource hungry as you would think.  Generally if you can run C5 Pro you should have no problem with 6. 

How does it run on 512MByte?  More RAM for a Lexington2 motherboard is not cheap.  Jan

Even C5 is going to have issues with only 512MB.  Recommended minimum for either to do any serious work is 2GB.  For either you probably are going to need a big swap file, and it will be slow.  When I was still running 5 Pro, I had an Athlon 64x2, with 2GB and it still got slow if I brought in any poser content.  Now I run a Phenom 4 core CPU and 4GB (3.5 usable) RAM and it flies, and all memory problems have pretty much disappeared.  I am not familiar with a Lexington2 motherboard.  Who makes that one?

In 2002, that was an Intel board.  I have a big swap file.  The specs for C5Pro is 128Mbyte min and 512Mbyte recommended, for C6P, it I think is 512mb min and 1GB recommended.  I would be dead meat with C6 Pro.  Since C5P is $97.95, I can risk it--and yes I know about the freebie in Issue 100 of 3DWorld Mag--its a long story-thought it was a CD and it was a DVD, didn't read it closely (after all, the 99 previous issues were all CD's, returned it to the store, got a replacement mag, returned it, warned folks here about the defects,  got the statement that you can't run a DVD on a CD player you idiot.  Stayed away from store for several months.  Jan

2002.  Wow you got some mileage out of that board.  Most don't last that long.I was talking real world recommendation, not what's on the box, which I have not found to be accurate very often.  Running anything over C4 on 512MB is going to really be tricky.  You will probably have the most trouble rendering.  The dreaded memory allocation error is pretty common on C5, which is the main reason I went up to 6.  My current machine, I built specifically for using C6 Pro on.  Cost me just under $1K for the parts, but for the increase in productivity, it was worth it.  To be honest with a system that old, you really won't be getting the best out of either of them.  When I first got C4 years ago, I had a 512MB machine, which was a lot back then, but even 4 was kind of klunky on it.  You might want to consider upgrading to something a bit more contemporary.  AMD based machines can be built very inexpensively now, and work just as (if not more than) well than Intel systems.

Yeah, I need to be careful.  Purging my cache usually frees up stuff, so does a reboot-clears out my valuable RAM.   as for loading Poser characters in that does slow things down a lot-bill boarding works-don't know if C5pro does alpha planes (bill boards).  By the way, I'm getting the boxed version, I'm assuming that a manual comes with it????  Jan