Forum: Carrara


Subject: Render: Poser vs. Carrara (a first attempt)

arcady opened this issue on Mar 07, 2000 ยท 15 posts


arcady posted Tue, 07 March 2000 at 10:41 AM

I've noticed when taking poser scenes or objects into Carrara that I lose all the 'shader' info save for some very basic colors and possibly a texture map. Several of my objects came in with the wrong texture maps. They all lost all of their bump maps and transparency settings (my windows all turned opaque (sp?). The candle completely lost all it's info, even color. I spent several hours fixing this as best as I could figure out. :) The angle in this render unfortunatly makes it seem to still be such but other renders did show the backdrop. It does look flat on her. There's much more 'curve' in there in the preview of the assembly room. In both poser and Carrara the texture map is just a plain blue shape with no detail save for the nipples and pubic region. The first of which seems to have ended up in the wrong place on the Carrara render (it actually is in the right place. I checked in the assembly room set to textured preview. But in the render the curve of the breast and the location of the nipple seem off...). I set ambient light to about 15 to 20 as without it you could not see the top half of the woman unless the candles were so bright as to not look right anymore. The candles are brightness 80 with a 90% drop off and a range of 4 inches (the scene measures 5*5 inches just about. Poser people seem to be very small in other apps... bunch of pixies or something I guess :) ). I'll try experiementing with highlight and shininess. Of course I want to avoid the plastic look as well. :)

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