I asked this at Daz, got one sarcastic response from the resident forum t&%ll.

The essence is there is a cool plugin that Muphasa was kind enough to make  http://carraracafe.com/?p=2451

In the download page there promises to be a few hints on it in the download - change parameters etc. 

Tthe original Daz forum thread was nuked in the forum 'improvements' in the past.

The sand plugin works very well but I was hoping to change the density and possibly change the shape

of the 'sand' particles etc. 

There is a text file (in presets?) with the number 128 (?) in it and I tried a few varitions but had no effect.

The other files (dat??) I cant read with notepad. 

cheers and thanks in advance :) 

The only info I could find was in the download folder. There is a .jpg image of a forum thread showing the different effects. Above the sand image it says that you should render larger than the size you need and reduce it (in post, I suppose). I couldn't find any other info about it. I did read that he used YaToon to give the image an outline.

Wish I could be more help.

 thanks David, it would be wonderful to know how to write a plug in like this so we could fiddle with the effects.

I've had a recent serious play with Toon 3 (? the) one included with Carrara) and it gives some quite good effects when combined with Coverage pass, diffuse pass and Toon Pro outline.

The toon pro outline works in conjunction with the sand plug in as well.

Had interesting results with the sand plug in and very bright over blown lighting - the sand effect only happens in the shadows - could have some use in post :) ?

cheers :) 

Well, I wish I could write a plugin for that (any plugin for that matter). Should have paid more attention to my computer courses in college. I think we were actually using stone knives and bear skins to create code. Good times. :)

Fortran 4 for me, punch cards and big lines outside a concrete building which housed out one computer . Oh I wrote my wife's work data base about twenty years ago , took me three months ...... Life is short !  You had bear skins! Luxury . At first I read 'beer' skins , must need new specs ;) 

Heh, heh. No beer...sadly. Maybe I would have learned something. :)

 Beer is good. It makes me laugh. Then I fall over ;)

 oh ot but I saw this recently very funny :)

 

 oh ot but I saw this recently very funny :)

 Dickmomma?

 he heh what ever are you talking about  ;)  ? It describes 'x' so well I realised that it was a syndrome. I thought Car forum was 'special' but it seems not! :)

is that render using the sand plugin?...

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 yes I had to tweak it to get the beatnik beards though :)

;-)

I downloaded the plugin to have a look..

after installing it, it took me half an hour to find it... but I did.. persistence pays off plus there was nowhere else t look...

as you said, can't change any parameters .. but I did do two renders using the blue filter then the sand feature and put them both together in PSE..

A random cabin that could be found anywhere...

 looks great, nice work,!!

@evilproducer – that is one of my favorite Dilbert strips.

 ha yes, I saw it in the poser forum here , I coudnt resist but lift it. The remarkalbe thing is that it is so true that it's scary.

@ headwax, So here's the weird thing. When I visited the forum earlier, the only cartoon was evilproducers. But now I see yours too. Weird times, son. These are weird times. 

you been drinkin' grannies home brew again!

Oh evil pinched it from me ;) wonga , that Beverley hills' granny? Used the blue filter today on ak4 with its texture copied to the glow channel, has potential for illustration work . Thankyou ! 

Oh evil pinched it from me ;) 

Evil is evil. Heh, heh. He shouldn't be pinching you like that. It will leave a mark.

Sorry to intrude but that strip is soooo appropriate for the Poser forum that it's uncanny. Wow.

(Sound of crickets)

no intrusion, we all have the same problem, in fact I found it on a Poser forum initially ;)

... so true that it's scary.

Yes, that's why there are spin doctors, which are kind of the opposite of trolls.