Not to sound cognitively slow but how do I submit a rendering for the contest?

And how do I get rid of that (delete) key at the end of the subject line?

Click on the banner to go to the contest page. The (delete) is for you to delete your own message. No one else sees it.

Thanks Patrick. Can you tell I'm new here?

Welcome! We all have to start somewhere!

First thing we need to know, is how do you feel about Cheddar Cheese. We need to know which faction you will end up with, you see. And welcome, this is a pretty darn helpful forum (at least, it is when I can refrain from butting in).

Please understand that Twillis and I are attempting to take over the world so we need to know where you stand. Welcome to the forum and I'm looking forward to your submission to the contest. -Kix

Love chedder on cheese burgers but lean towards pan fried limburger. Seems to take care of the dog smells in the house. Dog prefers it over a stinky sock. I am considered a "cheese head" seeing I live one hour from Packer stadium. Sorry to say I've pretty much given up on C1.1 because of a multitude of problems the program is presenting. I seem to spend more time trying to figure out what went wrong than actual modelling. No one can identify the problems so I think it's best to move on to a different program. To bad cause I really thought Carrara was an awsome package as Ray Dream had been. I'll still follow this forum in hopes of finding some fixes and to laugh along with the interesting folks here! I'm out of breath but will try to get the art to the contest. Steve Steve

What sort of problems are you having? Maybe we can help. Glad to see you have the proper attitude toward cheddar. You probably made litst cry, though.

I posted some Q's 9/16/02 here but didn't get too many answers which makes me wonder if C 1.1 doesn't get along with Win XP. A new problem surfaced as I copied a model from one scene and pasted to another, lost all shaders and it picked up another shader from somewhere. Took forever to fix. Another would be reflections on a metalic surface coming from an object with those properties turned off. Even with every light in the house turned off (including ambient) it still reflects out in the black abyss. Any help would be great. Anyone else if having problems on XP?

if you already have a licensed copy of C1.1, you might want to consider upgrading to C2. i've used C2 on a bunch of different machines, (G4 400Mhz, G4 MP 1Ghz, P4 1Ghz, and P3 550Mhz) and found it worked like a charm on PC's with XP

The openGL integration seems to be stronger on PCs. For example, i had an ATI Mobility w/16Megs of RAM and it was moving the scenes around just as fast if not faster than my MP mac at work with the nVidia Ti 4600 w/128 Megs. Go figure. Even the P3 550 which has a lousy integrated video card was competative with the mac.

The mac was a wee bit faster at rendering (this was before the patch, so it's probably faster after that. i still haven't had time to test, though) anyway, since it has two processors, it could chew through big renders.

but getting to what means the most to you... stability.... i noticed that C2 worked like a charm on both PC's and they had winXP pro. in fact for the week that i was using the P4, i don't think i crashed once.

there is such an immense gap between the stability of C2 on PC's to that on Mac (let me just say that i didn't do too much work with C2 before getting a machine with Jaguar, and this may be a large part of the problem)

anyway, the PC seems far more suited for scene building because of smoother interactive render, where as i like my mac for rendering and texture building, postprocessing and editing.

let me finish by saying that C2 was so nice on the PC, i will probably be buying a cheap dell in a month or two just to build scenes and animate on.

hope this overgrown mess helps. a bit.

-pix

pix, thanks for all that I'm glad to here V2 runs smoothly on your machine. About the Dell you mentioned, and I'm sure it's not the name brand but I'm running C1.1 on a loaded Dell/WinXP and am completely frustrated. All other programs seem to run fine. I'm submitting to the contest today with an unfinished piece. There was so much I wanted to do with it but couldn't. Thanks again, SET