Appreciate the help.

The 'problem' seemed to fix itself. I can post now.

I will keep this in mind the next time this occurs.

Thanks.

Quote - I like Lisa's stuff, but don't use it very often (hard to believe she's gone). I don't have Ken's birds. I'm not even sure if they work in Carrara or not.

My birds will work in Carrara, but some of them might take a little work.  The most common issues are addressed in my Songbird ReMix FAQ.

Birds are the most common wildlife experience we have on a daily basis.  Without trying to sound too self-serving, I'm surprised how many renders (particularly landscapes) I see that are birdless.  I have a fairly extensive Bird wiki that shows what birds I created by region and type.

But no bats? The most common mammal in the world.

Right now I'm working on this swamp scene from hell, lol. It just keeps getting bigger, with more figures, and more replicators. I needed marsh birds, I'm using a poor fake redwing black birds , and some static cranes and ducks; well crain and duck.

The song bird remix is one of my most used animals. Look at it this way, if you were walking through the park and nether saw, nor heard any birds, wouldn't you be freaked out

Ooooo. Yes! A collection of bats would be awesome.

Could some one tell sbilf that those smart prop wings are not going to work on genesis in carrara 8.5.  http://www.daz3d.com/forums/viewthread/28851/

I gripped some time back about smart props vanishing from Genesis while posing. Same for "hair" hair. Anything that goes in to the genesis tree when loaded, wont stay on genesis when posing.

A "known issue" not on the list; like oh so many others.

manley, if you want something added to the known issues thread at DAZ you can PM me here, and I'll post your message attributed to a "manly anonymous contributor" or something :)

I'd rather someone with a better rep test to confirm and turn it in

I don't know what you're saying -- it seems mildly insulting, something about my reputability or lack thereof? -- but I'll just take it as a "no thank you" and respond with "Okay" :P

No I mean some one with a far better rep then mine, like you

Okay, my bad. Dunno about my reputation, but then I have so much personal stuff clouding my judgment lately that it's probably best to try not to worry about such things too much :P

Quote - Okay, my bad. Dunno about my reputation, but then I have so much personal stuff clouding my judgment lately that it's probably best to try not to worry about such things too much :P

Araneldon

Your reputation with DAZ can't help but be better than Stan's (no offence Stan).

They probably have Stan's picture posted at the guard's shack with a note saying "Shoot on Sight".

Quote - Lisa is my favorite organics artest. I have a lot of lisa's botanicals, and want more, but she isn't at DAZ now.

Stan

I found some organics over at RDNA. They are on sale. Go over and you might find something you like.

They are by a vendor named Judith. Here is one of her products...

http://www.runtimedna.com/Spring-Bulb-Series-Tulips.html

Lisa is at Hivewire. I've spoke with her in the chat; she's actually a chat mod.

And I love a chat

But what I need right now is realistic leaves for Carrara. Easy enough, I have trees, I have a scanner, I have a great app for making effects maps, now all I need is some ambition

http://www.daz3d.com/forums/viewthread/11112/

Some one tell GK to reinstall mimic. I had the very same issue on my last install of C8.1, reinstalling mimic fixed it.

It looks like GK's post was an old one resurrected by some unfortunate soul.

http://www.daz3d.com/forums/viewthread/29330/ photonprez

That is a new bug. I ran many lengthy physics tests, they all reloaded fine at the time, and played well. Still play well in C8.1.

Note, that is double click to open. I have had issues with softcloth not loading with sim run; wouldn't load calculations{?} when I drag and dropped or imported to a scene.

http://www.daz3d.com/forums/viewthread/29367/

It's called "mixer" it's an option in the color channel of a shader. You can use the texture overly on the skin with the mixer.

There is also new in C8.5 the mixer shader that allows you to mix 2 shaders using a mixing or distribution map. Great for when you want a metalic shader with a nonmetalic shader. Say actual gold accences on clothes. Or say you want your poser figure to have a couple of gold teeth.

I jumped in there and passed some of that along for you.

Ya I may have had the name wrong, not like I can pop open C8. to check.

I'm going to assume they are talking about soemthing like this http://www.sharecg.com/v/60787/view/11/Poser/The-Easy-shader3 I've got this but it appears to be nothing more then alpha maps, so could be used in the color channel mixer to apply another texture.

http://www.daz3d.com/forums/viewthread/29414/

Man, DAZ desperatly needs me on the forum, their loss.

Carrara content can be installed anywhere. You just need to add the folder to the carrara browser just like a runtime. Besure to add it to the right heading.

The native content needs to be in the carrara app folder for the scene wizard to work, but non of the after market; like Howies scenes, need to go there.

Infact installing carrara some place other then the programs folder will save you securety issues with W7 and worse yet, W8.

It seems the biggest issue people are having with content is DIM.

http://www.daz3d.com/forums/viewthread/29417/

Been there, just use camera 1 and move it to the camera 2 position and use a descrete tweener to make the camera jump from position A to position B.

http://www.daz3d.com/forums/viewthread/29409/

Easy, carrara has no other option for skinning G1. If you want to use M4 skins you will have to run G1 through Studio and save out G1 with M4's uvmap.

But head morphs for V4 wont work on genesis.

http://www.daz3d.com/forums/viewthread/29424/

Go to your account and download fresh versions. This would giveyou the updated versions, if any of them had actually been updated. On your list C8.5 is the only updated app. C8.1 got an update to C8.1.1.12 from C8.1.1.8 but I can't recomend it, it doesn't work as well as C8.1.1.8. I have had very serious shader issues opening C8.1.1.8 scenes in C8.1.1.12.

http://www.daz3d.com/forums/viewthread/29383/

Just import the .obj from the geometry folder.

http://www.daz3d.com/forums/viewthread/29424/

Can some one please warn ribroast before he installs C8.1.1.12. Just drop him a link http://www.renderosity.com/mod/forumpro/showthread.php?thread_id=2872538 where I describe the issues with C8.1.1.12.

Quote - http://www.daz3d.com/forums/viewthread/29424/

Can some one please warn ribroast before he installs C8.1.1.12. Just drop him a link http://www.renderosity.com/mod/forumpro/showthread.php?thread_id=2872538 where I describe the issues with C8.1.1.12.

I pm'ed him the info.

Thanks, I'd like to help people avoid the issues I have with it.

People are coming up with some very elaborate wasy to do this, this is one camera one continues render. It's all in the tweener.

http://www.daz3d.com/forums/viewthread/29482/ No, next question.

you need to start a thread called "Ask Dr Stan" ! great idea about the tweener

That's one I beleive I got from 3DAGE. I was wondering how to do a shot with the camera going from behind an escaping hoover biker, to the cops on hoover bikes seeing him coming their way. 

But I have had some odd, yet consistent issues with tweeners and cameras. As in quit often rather then going from back to left 90, it goes right 270. So often you have to add keyframes to make sure the camera is tweening in the right direction, or not zooming out then back in while tweening.

Quote - you need to start a thread called "Ask Dr Stan" !

I'd sign up for that. "Dr. Stan! Assembly room, Stat!"

Quote - > Quote - you need to start a thread called "Ask Dr Stan" !

I'd sign up for that. "Dr. Stan! Assembly room, Stat!"

he he :) you know there is a new carrara animation site being set up

by ooseven , looks good , he left his email at the cafe if you want to test drive it

sounds like ask Dr Stan could be in several places.

stan you could also do video tuts like Cripeman !

You all are giving me far too much credit. There is a lot about carrara I still don't understand. I may only use 10% of the features regular, so it would be easy to stump me with a question.

Quote - You all are giving me far too much credit. There is a lot about carrara I still don't understand. I may only use 10% of the features regular, so it would be easy to stump me with a question.

Maybe so, but you're just stubborn enough to dive in and figure out the answer anyway. That's a trait of a good teacher.

Or a crazy person. :)

Either way, we need you o wise one.

Sounds fun till you realize I have gotten myself so frustrated through my own stuborness that I have given myself migranes.

But yes, I love to verifie isues and try to find solutions.

Now for your viewing pleasure one of nine cameras on "swamp a2b". This picture is just so unlike me. This is default settings except for HDRI. Yes, I need to work on the birds lol

Hey, that's pretty good.

I need to fix the bird replication. Cut the count to one third and add two more differently posed birds. They are a shader made redwing black bird based on Ken's songbirdremix.

They wont hold up to a close up but work fine here.

The replication surface is actualy the terrain, converted to vertex and inverted by using scaling. I wanted the birds close to the ground where there was the thickest brush. 

Sound like a good idea. The variation on the birds will go a long way toward realism. I think the birds add a nice feel to the scene.

I also like the lighting. Very romantic.

I'm trying to push myself on this one. It has gotten to the point where I usually loss interest. That WIP render was close to an hour and a half. Except for the HDRI, it is all default render settings. Note, that does not include all the precalculations before the render even started.

One of the greate things about this comp is I can render, and watch a show lol {not at hidef though}

Looking really good, Stan, excellent mood lighting.  I'm from the deep south (Georgia, right on the border of Florida) and this actually looks very much like the swampy lakes I used to near and go out canoing and swimming with gators in my boy scout days.

I lived on the south coast for 10 years. My X thought I was crazy for for putting on hipwaders to go look at "weeds", picture plants, sundews, and such.

But that scene just keeps growing. It started when I found creech http://www.yurdigital.com/catalog/1859-creech-stand-alone-poser-figure and got on to this 50's horror movie kick. Creech does give me problems, but is not imposable to work with lol Although I have been seriously considering dropping him for a morphed M4.

Once I get Ken's water birds I may take the swamp all nature. Add some wild life, maybe use it for several renders. But there is still a lot of work to do here. I haven't set any of the plant shaders, and am still looking for good, articulated, american fresh water fish. Although I can rig a fish.