I'm clueless about how to use photoshop filters in Carrara: The manual (pg 46) says that you can put PSP filters into Carrara's plugin folder and use them for post-render processing, and it lists a 5-step setup for doing so, but it does not seem to work. I don't ever get any "dialog" popup mentioned in step 3 to choose a folder from. The only scratch disk option available to me is my hard drive. What's up with this? Can any Carrara filtering geniuses out there help me? Thanks in advance.

servo...I dont have any Photoshop filters... :( Poor ClintH. :) Maybe some of the other members will have some ideas for you on this. Good luck, Clint

Y'know, the out of the box installation of Carrara had that feature in preferences. However, I'm working with the updated one (1.01) and can no longer locate the plug-in feature. Hmmmmmm, I rembmer trying to set it up with RD 5.5 and not having any luck with it. I wonder if it's been eliminated as a feature? Mark

I still haven't downloaded the patch, so I'm working with Cararra 1.0 -- and this feature, described in the manual on page 46, doesn't seem to work... If you got it to work before, you're one up on me.

I found this info on the metacreations support pages. Resolution Type: Performance Subject: Plugins are not working. Resolution: Currently, plugins are not supported in Carrara. This would have to be addressed in a future patch if it were to be implimented.

How would a photoshop plugin work in a 3D program, Photoshop plugins are primarily a 2D affair aren't they?

Yep, they are. The use would definatly be as a post render filter. Say, for example, you wanted to animate with the 'Mosaic Tiling' feature. The plug in feature would allow you to do it as a no-brainer v.s. painful frame by frame. Mark

This is exactly the kind of use I'm looking for -- doing a post-render filter on each frame in a sequence as it is output. It makes me kinda mad that the Carrara manual gives instructions on how to do something that it doesn't actually do...