My only beef with "Carrara" is how do you SPELL IT!? :)  But seriously...I just had a really bad-a** graphics machine built for me, installed win7 64 bit and now my OLD Carrara 8.1 renders as large an image (both dpi and physical size) as I want! I LOVE watching the image "melt into view"... giggle fit!  

The main thrill for me is that I don't have to buy Pro, no need for the "64 bit" when my 32 bit works a treat! heheeeehahahahha YAY! Am I happy or what?!  The ONLY reason I got and kept hoping Carrara would work are Howie's scenes...I spent a fortune on them, because in my opinion NO OTHER LANDSCAPE RENDERER WORKS to create photo-real landscapes and Howie takes all the pain of creating them out of life!

I am admittedly dyslexic... and doing anything original in Carrara is just not possible for me...and I am also a "post-work fanatic"... I am most at home creating backgrounds and adding my POSER characters perfectly rendered in later. (My brain could NEVER wrap around DS, and it looks like - from browsing around in this forum, that's a good thing, in relationship to Carrara anyway.) I do remember that my particular Carrara version could actually bring poser INTO itself really well... so if I wanted to learn the lighting that would make them look proper, I could... but that's just too time consuming when I can get perfect results from poser's renders....

Mainly I just wanted to let folks know that the 8.1 version is VERY compatible with my win7 Professional 64 bit!!

runs off to play in Howie-Carrara land!

Lyne
Lyne's Creations

Woot congratulations!! 

I have plans on taking your coats you just posted and using them in Carrara.  Not sure if you have adjusted or saved out the coats as Carrara Shader, but if I do that I will send em back.

I am trying to get my own head wrapped around rendering layers and postwork myself.

Again congratulations!

Grats.

One of my dreams is a render farm

oh gosh, I don't even know HOW to make a Carrara shader!? The coats are JUST in jpg form with instructions on how to apply them WITH CWRW's coats on the HiveWire horse... her textures make up a lot of what I didn't provide with this conversion job... But sure, I'd be glad to host a "shader" of them on my site, if you can work that out! :)

I will see about doing it this weekend.  I need to review a couple of things.

Congrats on the new machine, Lyne, and on Carrara 8.1's new lease on life for you. I still use 8.1 Pro and it's still works great!

@Stan-Never thought you were the farmer type. (heh, heh. couldn't resist)

Congrats on the new machine!

Howie does make some really cool stuff, you'll love what you can do.

By the way, I don't know how to make shaders, but you can buy some from Daz website.

Holyforest and a few others have created some really great items.

Yes, Holyforest's shades are very good. He's got a shader for just about everything.