OMG!!

That's a completely new definition to "Soft Body" :lol:

It puts my "Beaker-Vicki" to shame

Oh, I'd like to get more info on how to do that!

I'm very comfortable with Poser and have primarily used Carrara just as a modeler for creating and modifying figures.

I KNOW there's so much more that I could do with Carrara & would certainly like to get more involved with using it.

Is it possible to utilize the transparency maps from Poser, too?

I once tried importing a Poser scene (featuring a griffyn) into the middle of a pre-built Carrara scene. However, the griffyn's feathers weren't transparent where they were supposed to be (along the edges of the feathers).

Other than that, I was pretty please at how the render came out. The render engine certainly seems more robust than Poser's. And it would beat tearing my hair out from being frustrated that I can't export Carrara scenes into Poser.

If I could get the Poser maps & effects to work in Carrara, I think I'd start using it more--a LOT more :biggrin:

--OTOH, Are you sure Jennifer can't participate??? I mean, she really worked out hard for something like this-check out CharacterCreator ;)

Much thanks for your reply. I'm not really sure how. The scene I'm wanting to build is supposed to have the camera turn from the Earth, pan across the Sun, and go to an object approaching orbit. I did see one Bryce message about doing a sphere just smaller than the Universe, but I have no idea how big that is for the Bryce stage or where the Sun fits into the Bryce stage. Is it easy making the background image like that? Hope you can help <:)

I haven't tried playing with the 3Dpaint tools too much, as I've been busy with other learning curves ;) However, I came across a strange thing about RDS -- the Four Elements pack -- It keeps asking for some serial number. I'm assuming this is a third party software plugin. Is this something we need to go to the orignating company and purchase the key?

I'm still working on her facial morphs--Please be patient--Lilhov's been pretty patient for getting her build just right.

I'm in, too. In fact, I've just sent it. Below is the copy of what I just sent Currious Labs. Anyone know which email address to use for Correl's Bryce division? Dear Sirs, I am an avid user of Poser and 3D modeling products from other companies, including Metacreations' Carrara. I find that these products are of great flexibility, reliability, and ease of use for creating models, scenes, and animations. There is just one issue which irritates me in using them: The lack of compatibility between the various products out there. I hope you can help me and other 3D artists by taking note of our concerns and work with your colleagues in building the bridges linking these otherwise invaluable applications. I know that other competing companies charge exorbitant prices for products that are only marginally better in the quality of animations. However, Metacreations had created many of these 3D animation and modeling products and made them quite affordable, and thus, provided quite an inroad for many starving artists. For reasons still unclear to many of us, Metacreations has divested their interest and quit supporting these products. It was very kind and wise of your company to see that this valuable resource would not die off. But, please, since you have made such an investment by picking up Poser as your own, don't let it die of neglect! Please provide us a Plug-in for exporting scenes and animations to Carrara and importing finished Carrara scenes and animations back to Poser so that myself and others can continue to use these products to display what we have in our minds' eye. Thank you, Terrell Vance

?? Cute death's head in the corner, too! ;) "Think you used enough dynamite there, Butch?" "It'd better, because we're fresh out of warp cores!"

Great work! I would swear That is a photo of a REAL statue!

I've got several products from Metacreations/FractalDesigns which were all supposed to be mutually compatable: Bryce, Poser, RDD, and Carrara. They weren't quite there, although they were closing the gaps with the plugins. But then everything got sold off and scattered to the four winds. I only hope the new owner!S! keep working together to ensure the compatability. Just on the safe side, I've been backing up all my patches and plugins downloaded over the months, and keeping all my old versions. However, I've only got P4.03.126, RDD5.02 and Bryce4.1. Everything else out there that's supposedly higher upgrades are apparently lost with the sell off. I can't find them.

In fact, I used Carrara, as well as RDD, to help build her after exporting the obj from Poser. That's been some of my disappointment with Carrara--that, supposedly, it's a complete replacement for RDD & Infinity. However, with all its features, some things I could do in RDD, I just can't do in Carrara, so I keep them both :/ The centaur is almost ready to release, after I create her facial and other morphs. (That's really going to be a pain---!). I've really learned a lot just from doing this little project, I'm looking forward to producing the rest of my ideas.

On a related theme: Is there any way to import the ANIMATED PZ3 file into Carrara like you can with RayDream? Also, anyone know of the 3rd party (Th0r, for example) tie-ins for RDD been converted to C? Some folks have compared C to the combination of RDD & Infinity. I'd like to be able to dump the RDD if that were truely the case. Unfortunately--it's not:( Ray Dream's been very good to me--I just need the disk space!

Similar question: Is there any way to do a "cloaking" scene, such as an object going from a solid texture to a refractive, but transparent over the animation? I've only got Bryce4, RDD502, and Poser4