Hello all my fellow Carrara users here, ❤

I have posted before but not often as I hung out at the DAZ 3D Carrara forum and frequently earnt the ire of the DAZ 3D moderation team for mentioning offsite products many from Renderosity I might add VWD being the most moderated one.?

My time there has now come to an end and I sadly cannot say goodbye there either so posting here.

For Carrara related stuff this will now be my go to forum and RMP my go to 3D content store. Not just because of DAZ and the embracing of NFTs and the moderation team not allowing me to post without pre approval but in fact the increasing incompatibility of their new content with my softwares of choice!

Even mentioning Poser has had me moderated!

So Hello Renderosity, I will try and be good and not mention DAZ products, I think that won't be hard as everything else I use including iClone is actually sold here.

Welcome Wendy, glad to have you here! We have a few issues here too (see Manley Stanleys recent post in this forum) but it is still a much better mix than other gallery / forum offerings I've seen out there.

waves at wendy

hi. glad you could make it here.

feels kinda like the restaurant at the end of the universe.

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Hello Wendy, sorry to hear about your troubles with daz. You will be missed there sorely. Happy renderoing

LOL now they have loot boxes of stuff we cannot use in Carrara for certain, Alpha status signalling badges, nothing to go back for. ?

Greetings Wendy. I only get in here occasionally, but very nice to see you here.

I cannot help myself and think I may have a problem, I still keep reading that general forum because quite frankly it's like watching a trainwreck. I get bored while waiting for my renders and there is only so many reddit narration videos I can watch on YouTube. ?, I tried logging out then people messaged me and I had to log in to reply. ?then I see someone asking for help so reply to them even though someone else will answer them before my post is approved. ? and I had to thank someone for a sigline badge.

give me strength ?

It's weirdly amusing.

snacking on popcorn while watching the train wreck

tho i spent the last few hours looking at dz in the rmp, lotsa male smut wear, hubba hubba.

i dont go out into public much these days. i do miss going to the pub.

Hi Wendy ;-)

much better here

none of that snake oil schemes. yikes.

Wonga posted at 2:00AM Wed, 07 April 2021 - #4416364

Hi Wendy ;-)

its Duck Dodgers!!

well I posted a brief goodbye on the Carrara Forum at DAZ but whether the Moderation Team approves it is yet to be seen.

I am very limited in what I can say, bit like someone murdered in a lonely place and buried in an anonymous grave. ?

I will not dwell on it anymore here, rather post Carrara and 3D related stuff. ?

the post was posted. is dead there.

i keep posting nags about a ca update in their self congratulatory threads.

it took a whole 24 hours but yes it has, its rather dead here too ?

just us mostly, even the other forums here such as the DAZ studio one, I necroed the fractal one ?

I am going stupid trying to give the Lowpoly Cats in Unreal a better UV, bloody Unreal throws up errors the skeletal mesh doesn't match on the new one, I don't change the vertex order, I just gave up and deleted all my efforts, oddly the original imports mangled into Carrara, the new UV which I did in Zbrush imports into Carrara perfectly and animated, weird AF

why did you choose unreal?

i've become interested in Unity, a carrara hair said it worked in unity bridge,
turned out to be a typo on the product page. whattapita

forests look good in unity.

trying to learn how to create and save morphs in carrara thru importing obj as morph sources. i think it's more similar to creating poser pz2 morphs than duf morph assets.

looks like lahomme is on sale. dunno how much trouble it'll be to get him into carrara. no idea how poser joints work these days. or cycles shaders.

i remember poser material room with all the plugs and wires. been a long time (break into led zeppelin song)

still lots to learn about car and cbr files. like relative paths.

Hey Wendy! Don't feel too bad. I get moderated pretty strongly too over at the other place. As long as I sing praises, they don't mess me about too badly.

It's not quite as lively here, but it is home.

yes but are you or any others bad enough to go on the pre approval list?

wendyvainity posted at 9:23AM Sat, 10 April 2021 - #4416652

yes but are you or any others bad enough to go on the pre approval list?

No. I bow to your badness. Lol. Did they say how long you were to be on the "preapproved" posting list?

They threatened to outright ban me a couple times years ago, but fortunately for me, Stan was a bigger bogeyman than I was. Lol

I decided to limit my time over there. It has been a stress reducing experience.

Anyway, welcome "home."

i thought i posted in your offtopic thread early this morning. mebbe i forgot to hit submit. mebbe i dreamed it.

I dreamt I made a post and it was all weird HTML nonsense but it bypassed the mods, twas a dream sadly

Silence of the carrara lambs

mmm Lamb, I miss it so much, but my Cholesterol is now 3.5 instead of 8 and I have lost 10KG

took a screenshot of my last off topic post, for the memories

good luck on the cholesterol numbers.

nowhere to discuss Unreal Engine here either, I have so many questions especially regarding Metahumans and DAZ Mods would never approve posts by me on that. ? I would still be using DAZ content as well as any other content in projects with them but that makes no difference to their strict rules. Been there already with iClone before I was subjected to approval.

Is asinine as importing DAZ/Poser sets I buy is still making me a customer regardless of the humanoids used.

i finished d/l ing and backing up my entire prodlib. i feel like the apron strings have been cut.

its nice to see vyusur putting her human here at rmp. and a nice male add on for vlad, vlad hisself is still at the other place.

and philermo mentioned looking into a convert rigging script to run inside carrara. seems the autofit is the hurtle

a standalone script using a macro to edit the duf could work too, I don't know how to do it but in Notepad++ it should be possible to make one you just run on the file

silence of the lambs post is still there lol. snarky. we dont have snarky in the states. or the nuance is different.

wendyvainity posted at 9:11PM Thu, 15 April 2021 - #4417027

a standalone script using a macro to edit the duf could work too, I don't know how to do it but in Notepad++ it should be possible to make one you just run on the file

i've begun culling my content, no way i'm converting all. and then delete the rigid groups, geografts. manually setup the opacity maps.

i think i'm finally retiring aiko3 and terai yuki2. is prolly time to let go gianni6 too. he stars in so many fantasies, lol, new boy toy g8/8.1. gianni7 was a total disappointment.

keeping g3. i like Kenji. Leo. keeping g2 brayden, dont have any good teenagers in 3 and 8.

bone gnomes hammering my fingers today.

are you feeling better today?

I am in damned good health actually, very grateful and feel sad for you ?

Cholesterol has gone down from 8+ to 3.8, my resting heart rate now in the 50-60bpm range, lost 10KG, no more aches,

the secret?

Diet and exercise!!!!!

whats the unreal renderer?
does it do vray?

it's Unreal Game Engine and dunno to be honest, there is an Octane plugin but I just use the inbuilt engine, you still need a decent graphics card but with the game engine it needn't be a Nvidia one ( it works on my Win7 with Intel graphics even)

OK yes

https://www.chaosgroup.com/vray/unreal

$80 a month or $219 a year

but one would need to be used to using Unreal before committing, it's cheaper than some things

thanks.
subscription based, oh noes

I have posted a few times at DAZ since my last post in the off topic Carrara thread but not a single one of those posts got approved. ?

i come to this forum first now. dont even worry bout the other place, its their loss

I still look at the trainwreck, I don't buy anything though, they totally cured me of that, I will use the PC+ coupons until it runs out but that is all, my 6 off 18 one will only ever be all old Carrara useable stuffs on sale and the DO one below $6

so $12 a month all they get at the most and will happily not use the one that costs some months. ?

I missed you terribly, Wendy. So glad to find you still posting over here. Will check rendo more often now.

miss all of you too ?

MistyLaraCarrara posted at 6:59PM Tue, 20 April 2021 - #4417062

Misty Daz has been putting a lot of Aiko 3 items in the "vault." If there's anything you might want that you don't already have, you could check the sale at the other place so you don't miss out.

thanks.

had flash sale stuff in my cart, ready to check out, the sale ended all the prices jumped.
did they think i was gonna buy it anyway cuz it was in my cart already?
its gonna take a while to forget it and shop there again.

Hi Wendy,

I heard there was a link around here somewhere to your recent twinmotion animation - still available? we need a consolidation point for your outputs - I need my fix :)

Like others, I'll happily stick my head in here to see what's going on with you and your fellow peeps. Likewise, my waning urge to contribute (and purchase) at that other place is only reinforced by their general treatment of the more spicy (read: creative and interesting) folks.

best wishes always and be true to your soul - it's on the right track. (and let us know where/when you post new stuff!)

--ms

did you mean this?

A mixture including Carrara

I have done lots of videos since my semiban

My Channel

I am complete again... :)

That was actually rather unsettling, but not in the sense of a critique, but your usage of lighting, dark sci-fi environment, the sound ("2-5-7...") and the ever-present fighting figures, all definitely created a hard-core energy and mood. props for that. Will browse further!

and, i dunno if that was the one I'd heard about, but I can track your YT channel if that's your home-base for outputs. I view but don't otherwise dignify the alphabet companies with accounts, etc., so I'll check manually to be sure I'm up-to-date - let me know if there are any other avenues for your outputs as well, (other than FB).

--ms

well Facebook I am Wendy Carrara

MistyLaraCarrara posted at 10:17AM Wed, 21 April 2021 - #4417382

thanks.

had flash sale stuff in my cart, ready to check out, the sale ended all the prices jumped.
did they think i was gonna buy it anyway cuz it was in my cart already?
its gonna take a while to forget it and shop there again.

Oh yeah, the same thing happened to me. It was one of those sales where you have to buy X amount of things to get a discount and I had to sift through dozens of pages.

I got it all loaded up, went to check out and the prices all jumped.

I complained, but they blew me off. At least there were a few of us in the forums raising our voices. Not that it did any good.

I emptied my cart & Daz lost out on some money that day.

wendyvainity posted at 10:27AM Wed, 21 April 2021 - #4417192

I have posted a few times at DAZ since my last post in the off topic Carrara thread but not a single one of those posts got approved. ?

Hey Wendy Is this situation permanent?? Can't they reinstate you?

I'm trying to learn a bit about Unreal. It seems like a viable way to make animation a lot faster than with Carrara.

I don't see why you couldn't start a thread here somewhere. Especially if you're adding Carrara to it

I think it may be permanent. ? The mods there have made it very clear over the years they are not fond of me.

While I haven't found that dislike prevalent in the forum from other users (except for a handful who are generally unpleasant to everyone and on my ignore list) it's the mod's opinions that count.?

I question the authoritah

House I modelled in Carrara in Unreal Engine with Megascans textures