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144 comments found!
Thread: Is Carrara for me? | Forum: Carrara
Try to get a few $ in the budget for some plug-ins like Anything Grooves (www.digitalcarversguild.com) which adds displacement mapping (an improvement over bump mapping). There's also Thor and Tree Druid at www.zenstar.com http://www.losthorizonsoftware.com/ supposedly has a v2 version of their power pack coming soon (I think v1 is bundled with Carrara v1.1).
Thread: tip on physical forces | Forum: Carrara
There are two Physics.* files in the "ext" directory of v1.0. Maybe you could just copy those over to the v1.1 ext directory. I upgraded v1.0 via the free online patch and then installed the v1.1 cd on top of that.
Thread: RayDream features that got left behind | Forum: Carrara
I think I just installed v1.1 over the top of v1.0 (or at least v1.0 was already installed when I installed v1.1). I don't recall having to do anything special after installing v1.1 that way in order to make the physics stuff work (it was just there and waiting to be used). In Cinema 4D-land you have to pay an extra $495 for their physics plug-in (to be fair it probably does more than what Carrara has).
Thread: RayDream features that got left behind | Forum: Carrara
v1.0 included a Physics module extension. If you know someone who has the v1.0 CD you might be able to just grab the Physics.dta and Physics.mcx files from them. I'm running v1.1 and the physics stuff still seems to work just fine (I can make balls bounce of each other like there's no tomorrow!)
Thread: What screen resolution do you work with ? | Forum: Carrara
1024x768 on a 21" monitor. Lightwave 7 does a nice job of giving most of the screen real estate over to modeling/layout (but the trade-off is the rather dreary interface). Things seem a little cramped in C4DXL7.
Thread: 'Bout them metal shaders | Forum: Carrara
Just got Real World Carrara Metals yesterday and am having fun playing with it. Definitely more realistic than many of the shaders that are out there. I think Alien Metal is my favorite thus far!
Thread: Is Carrara for me? | Forum: Carrara
I own Lightwave 7 and Carrara and even though Carrara is lacking certain features (such as fresnel effects and utilities for dealing with large scenes with lots of objects) I think Carrara tends to generate more beautiful results out-of-the-box. Lightwave's particle system is amazing, though. I'm running v1.1 on the PC and unfortunately I do tend to get a lot of rendering errors (and when that happens the scene I'm working on is basically kaput). This seems to happen more often if I'm using some of the nifty plug-ins like Anything Glows/Grooves. I've also needed to repeatedly discard my .ini file in order to keep going (but then I have to reload all my shaders into the browser). Lightwave isn't totally stable, either, but Carrara definitely crashes more often. If nothing else, Carrara is a friendly and fun way to learn the ins and outs of 3D (and the spline modeler is pretty cool). Lightwave is clearly very powerful but often leaves me dazed and confused! Maybe Carrara version 2 will add some helpful features like caustics, true volumetric lighting, and the ability to do things based on the incidence angle to the camera (for fresnel effects, etc). The program that has impressed me most is Maxon's Cinema 4DXL7. The BodyPaint add-on blows my mind (although I gather that RayDream had a 3d paint feature). If you can find someone with the Carrara v1.0 cd you can get some cool physical dynamics stuff happening as well (if you apply the v1.1 upgrade to v1.0 the physics features remain).
Thread: Tree Druid? | Forum: Carrara
Seems like the best setup is to have both and to use the standalone editor to create presets for the Carrara plug-in. Personally I think it would have been nice if the preset editor had shipped with the Carrara plug-in.
Would be nice if it shipped with more texture maps for different kinds of trees (it generates the shapes but doesn't do the texturing for you).
So far I've only been able to get trees to cast hard shadows (no shadow shows up with soft shadows).
Check out http://www.vb-visual.com/vb/produkte.php (something similar for C4D). This seems to come with lots of texture maps for different kinds of trees.
I've attached something I whipped up. Just for fun I made the tree be an Anything Glows light.
The tree plug-in is a lot of fun but it might be hard to create very realistic looking trees with it (especially without the standalone version to create new presets).
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Thread: I don't expect an answer but, .... | Forum: Carrara