sparrownightmare opened this issue on Jul 22, 2008 · 17 posts
sparrownightmare posted Wed, 23 July 2008 at 5:07 PM
I know what you mean about Carrara content. I am trying to develop some content for the marketplace, but have run into a few obstacles. The first and most annoying being the fact that Carrara files are so much bigger than most Poser or Daz Studio content. Let's face it, most of the content for Poser etc. are just image maps and morph files. And their mesh data is fairly simple compared to something like Carrara. To market a Carrara file, you have to include all of the texture maps bitmaps as well as the .car file itself. Renderosity has a strict 70MB max with a 35MB max filesize times 2. This is great for small poser files, but Carrara files that size are nearly impossible for any semi decent detailed models or scenes. I have one model right now that I can't send up because the .car file is 49MB, and they wont take that file size, which I consider a bit draconian and unrealistic if they really want to host content made for Carrara. Why not let people upload a single file under 70MB. That at least would be doable. I have made this suggestion in the marketplace forum, but it has either been curtly shot down or just ignored. Oh well... Someone suggested I see about selling at Daz and it has been two weeks since I sent them a sample image of the first model I want to put there. I got an email telling me it wouldn't be looked at for a week. That was 2 weeks ago and still no word, despite a reminder I sent them. So I guess they aren't too interested either. It's a real shame too. This is why you don't see a lot of Carrara content on the sites. With the outdated and arbitrary file size limits, and the fact that some sites don't even seem to have anyone who can test the products, all you are left with are shader files and scripts.
If I had the financial resources I would start my own site at this point... Like I said, a real shame.
Rich
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