Forum: Carrara


Subject: Has anybody used the new vector rendering plug-in?

cristianr opened this issue on Sep 03, 2002 ยท 4 posts


MarkBremmer posted Tue, 03 September 2002 at 10:43 PM

Vector Style works wonderfully on my system. As the name implies, it's strength is in producing vector/scalable artwork for use in flash or exporting 3d scenes to Illustrator. Vector works stops just short of using textures because it is no longer an "efficient" Flash format. If the goal is to use textured objects, than the best option is to embed a quicktime movie within a Flash file. In it's pure line/vector export format, VS produces small, tidy files. As you add more detail such as shading and forground definitions based upon polygon shapes, the file sizes go up accordingly. VS doesn't have a lot of documentation. That's a bit of problem if you have little experience with Flash. If you've authored in flash and understand all the in's and outs' of streamlining those files, then VS is virtually intuitive. It would be nice if the VS export/save-as instructions provided a little more information for the less experienced, however. It's not complex though and simply playing around for about sixty minutes or less should make everything fairly clear. To get the most out of VS you need to have Flash or Adobe Live Motion to add true interactivity, sound etc. However, if you don't have those tools, and all you want to do is make a straight running flash movie from your 3D files to add spice to your web site, you just can't beat it. Hope this helps. Mark www.MarkBremmer.com