That's my point... I don't want a backdrop image, I want the image to attach itself to the drawing grid (as it does in C7) so that when I pan the camera across the  image in one of the Ortho views (front  or side views) using Alt+LMB, my plotted curves and the drawing grid remain locked in position according to the reference image
But to answer your question, i start in a 4 view and I end in a full side or front view to plot the details.  It doesn't seem to matter if I start in the full vertex modeller or if I drop a vertex object in the assembly room and then load up my reference images.
I'm using a number of computers, 32 and 64 bit, Xp Pro and Windows 7.
As mentioned previously, C7Pro works flawlessly and I have absolutely no problem using reference images in the Vertex Modeller on any of my workstations.  I just can't seem to get the reference images to behave as such in the C8Pro Vertex Modeller.

Hello GreenHawke

You've come to the right place.  There are a ton of Tutorial vids for Carrara on the net and not that I'm promoting anyone in particular, but Mark Bremmer has an Excellent video series covering the basics and some not so basic stuff which is available from VTC.  Personally I found that series a bit pricey, but there are a lot of free tutorials out there covering just about every aspect of Carrara.  Most of the links can be found in this forum or the Carrara forum at Daz

Now that's what I'm talking about....looks like somebody already said that  .... but really,

Great Stuff Mark. Can't wait to get it.

Ditto!!!

And I seem to remember you (Mark) saying that you could easily do ten hours just on the shader tree.  Well that would be nice too!

Quote - > Quote -  The Little shrot from Eva was done with Poser and Carrara (Poser for the dynamic cloth and rig of the character), the all rest is Carrara:

http://www.vimeo.com/7247521

That is very good! It shows that Carrara is capable of doing a pretty decent job!! (of course, a very talented person on the other side of the screen helps a lot!) :biggrin:

Nicely done!!  Just curious....what was the render time for a short film as that??

Thanks for the good info

Quote - How many computers do you want to network, I think you have enough render node licenses that come with Carrara Pro to do 4 or 5 machines, if each was a quad core then you could have up to 20 Cores that way.

Can I configure these Render Nodes to render in the background while still working in the asembly room, if so, How?

Quote - It's for setting up a render farm.  If  you have a lot of networked systems that you want to use to render Carrara files, you use this to set it up.  If you don't want to do your rendering on a network render farm, then no, it wouldn't be worth it.  From what I can tell, the major advantage of this over the normal Carrara network rendering is that you don't have to tie up your production box.

Can I install Grid on more than one box or do i have to buy another license? Do I need to buy more hardware?