Here are a couple more, no so pressing questions I hav'nt found in the manual yet, and am hoping someone could point out for me rather simply. 10.) Are scenes easily merged? I'd be a bigt fan of this function, as I'm inclined to start a new scene for almost anything. 11.) In Poser 5 you can save a camera's position a couple different ways, what is the easyest way to do this in C2? As is I have the coordinates writen down on scrap paper. 12.) I made a coin from a cylinder object, saved it to my objects and then re-imported to find it lost it's shape. So, I made another coin, exported, re-imported, and added to the Objects Browser, but then I realized it loast it's Centered Hotpoint along the way somehow, even though the Lock Hotpoint to Center option is toggled on. What do we do to put it back in the perfect center? Right now the Physics option barely works.

I've found we can Select an object>Go to the Model Room>Edit>Convert to Other Modeler>Vertex Modeler>And then replicate with Offsets! The problem is though that when you go back to the Assembly Room the new objects are grouped, and there is'nt an Ungroup available. Else, I've resolved to Edit>Select all Primitives>Copy>Paste>Arrange>, Edit>Select all Primitives>Copy>Paste>Arrange, etc., etc. I've never used a plugin before, I'm sure I can find something about how to load it in the .PDFs though. Thanks for all the advice!

9.) And this is'nt near as important as some other questions, but I still do'nt know where this color comes from. How is this ground color changed? I tried reading pg. 213-215, on Backdrops and Backgrounds, but still have no luck changing it. As is the scene renders almost immediately, but as soon as I introduce an Infinite Plane, or Finite Plane, to change the brown color, the render time soares somewhere over %400!

This is the above scene rendered(With the Sun turned off.)

I just e-mailed the Beanz from 3DCommune, and told him of this URL, then mentioned there were some images here. So, I'm going to post a couple more. This is the scene in wire frame mode.

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I think, actually, the glbal illumination file here is the same as 3Dcommune's, as the donor's name there is Beanz, and Beanzvision here... BTW - the URL for the file, here, is attached...

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4.) I am also very much intertested in Multi-Replicating many of the objects I plan to introduce into this scene, and have started a post at the attached URL. Basically it is asking if C2 can copy and then paste(In a predifined pattern) an object, many times over, at once? I know Bryce can do this very well, but have searched the the C2 .PDFs and come up empty.

Also, I've been under the impression all we need to do, to turn off shadows through a whole scene, is click the Shadow Toggle Button on the right hand side of the GUI, is this true? Here is the render I keep getting with or without the toggle set to on! This is also the file I'm trying to illuminate globally..

Hope you've had a wonderfully satisfying Easter Holiday, Hoof! I spent most of it pluging away at C2, while my family eat, and eat, and..well, you get the picture.

1.) Though I've had much luck so far, I still have'nt mastered my light set.

2.) Allthough this is'nt especially pressing now, I'm still wondering if a Black and White Only image can be rendered?

3.) This is my BIGGEST setback! I'm missing a bunch of groups i.e. eyebrows, belt trim, and sandle buckles. I've tried esporting, from P5, a few times over, but have'nt seen them in the Shader Room or anywhere else. Could I bring in any specific creenshots? RAR'd this files is about 6 1.44MB files, if you'd care to have a look, I could post them? This may be a bit extreme, but I'd hate to end this scene here!

5.) Post 5 explains the diffiiculties I've had trying to get with your thickness tuteledge. Maybe posting this scene, on my website, is'nt such a bad idea, I could easily keep the URL low profile by only IMing it to you?

7.) I've also had a margin of luck with Global Illumination. It would be nice to see it in use alone, and not like the pic. in post 5, but I think I can live without that for now.

8.) It would be nice to see spot renders stay, and not dissappear on me?

Also, the link in post 5 now has an animation WIP, of mine, in it!

Thanks ahead of time, hoofdicommissaris! You've been my biggest help with this scene hands down, I appreciate your guidance very much, please take care! BTW, what does your name mean?

Here is an example of what I'm trying to accomplish, thanks a bunch for your second demonstratation! What I was getting at keyframing for was to add more treasure objects as the scene plays, but now I'm thinking I can just add them all on top of each other, over and out of view of the scene, untill the fall in front of the camera, all in the first scene, and with only one dirtectional force!

Allthough, with working on this scene some, I have a few more questions:

1.) Objects Browser - Is there only one place to view thumbs of Carrara's Installed Objects? I see them in my Browser:Objects palette, but I remember seeing race cars, and all kinds of other miscelaneous objects in the manual. Why do'nt objects put into the Objects browser retain thier shader settings? And why is that when I drag an object in, from the objects pallette, it registers in the scene at a very distant coordinates?

2.) Are there any gemstone shaders, for C2, around? I spent about 6 hours, yesturday, making Amethyst, Emerald, Sapphire, and Ruby, from the "Strange" shader(That I'd like to put in the feestuff area,) and would like others to compare!

3.) Have we seen a 3D Browser anywhere, this would be very helpful previewing many of the gem meshes I do'nt recognize by name.

Wow, that was fantastic, thank you so much, I'm saving this to disk and will be studying it much more! I buried my face in the .PDF manual ve the past few days and managed to put a scene together. I understand how to put in a directional force, and then how to then set an object's Motion to Physics, but was having alot of trouble seting my objects Physical Properties Parameter(Thanks to for the second screen shot!) The first setback I hav'nt overcome has to do with the Carrara Manual pg. 474-483, "Carrara wo'nt let you move an object that has physics applied later than frame 1," but now I'm wondering what we do about object you do'nt plan to introduce untill later frames, lik after other objects have settled? The Directional Force Graphic, on page 484, also has me a little puzzled, as it has Direction Value fields I do'nt see? BTW - I found using the timelines scub very fast for previewing the scene. It maybe faster than pressing play...I'm not all together sure, but that is what the manual said to do..just thought I'd mention it. Thanks again for posting screenshots!

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6.) That works fine, thanks a bunch! 7.) I'm getting warmer, with the Global Animation Renderer, and all your help! Here is as soft as I've rendered his skin. Still not quite as ambient as your HDRI file, what do you think? I'd have put more detail in, but am still trying to solve question 3, for a small handful of parts now, i.e. eybrows, eyeballs, belt trim, and buckles. 8.) I've also pondered a new query, do the spot renders ever stick? It'd be nice if my spot renders would'nt dissapear on each other between each other. I could actually get alot more previewing together if they did'nt. Also, I thought you may be interested in another post I've started here in the Carrara Forum, at the attached link. It concerns Physics, and piling all fo the Treasure Freebies I've been archiving for years now.

I'm so very happy to hear C2 has this function! I've been hoping not to ever need to leave MC's old style of 3D apps. i.e. P5, V4, B5, C2 for thier much more complicated bretheren. This kind of caps things for me! I just browsed around through the Tutorials and Back Room areas, for physics Would you care to post a few screenshots, to help me get things going? I'm sure I'll be needing two different reactions from the force striking either the ground plane or another object, ore and stone. I ca'nt think of any other materials that may be in my collection. Has you seen presets for either anywhere?

4.) Thanks, actually the image I posted in this past post has been touched up quite a bit. I managed to change all of those very dark icons by dragging the yellow alluminum shader from my browser to where that blue shader is now! 5.) I was trying very hard to follow the help, you were kind enough to offer, on the VM, but being new to Carrara I was just as happy to move on with just setting up my first textured scene. Thanks for reminding me, it made me have another look at our last post. I think I picked up on where I was getting confused. You mentioned having added a little negative thickness. This threw me way off. Now I've realized negative thickness must just be refering to the direction the thickness is added, i.e. inward vs. outward. I've found working with the VM is very slow, with 300MBs of SDRAM and a Celeron 700 ATX, and impossible on my 128MB Celeron 400 Desktop. Wich would be fine if the scene would then save, but then I keep recieving an "An inkown error occured while executing Save As...." message, the same thing happens whith the Save, function? I've been hoping to just set the thickness, export, and then reimport, but I'm also getting a "An unknown error has occured while executing Add Thickness" message. My only guess is the 50MB .DXF is too large. So, I exported other formats from P5. I found that .3ds and .lwo are very small, 6MBs and 3MBs, but the former imports shreded and the later is'nt supported. Then I tried exporting, from within C2, with my OBJ import, as .3ds, .wrl, but recieve futher "An unkown error has occured" message. Doing the same from .DXF worked for .3ds, but when it Re-Imports it's too small for anything, it's bounding boxes fill the document window before you can see the model. .3DMF exports and imports from P5(Without groups.) and C2, but I'm only selecting individual facets when I try to double click it into the Model room. Is there another way to get a figure from the Assembly Room to where we want in the Model Room besides double-clicking? And BTW can you remember what value of thickness you used, this way I can have a starting point to begin my testing? 6.) OOps, forgot to try that before I left to come here to the Library. Be back tomorrow! 7.) I also picked up on what you mention, regarding Global Illumination, in the other post, and did some reading of the manual. C2 has a Global Illumination renderer, I've actually made some improvements with(That I'll show with a little more work on my Master Light.) My big problem with it is that I ca'nt get it to work, much at all, without my little global lights placement. This is what I get with the setting attached? The expiriments are coming great, I think, thanks again for the imput, cheers! = )

2.) Your explanation of channels and Alpha Masking seemed very indept, but I think much of it went over my head. Please let me begin by simply asking this, can a Alpha Mask be render with only Black or White pixel values? 3.) When I open my Sequencer palette, click on the Master Shaders button, then double click on a shader this is what I see, but there is no entry named Eyebrows on any of all those materials. Is this to where you were refering, I was actually hoping to find my missing sandle buckles in the same place?