This is a real bad news i hear now from the group as i always reach this bug with the C3 version (i do heavy scenes !!) . My first concern to upgrade to CS4 was this bug i expected to be corrected. I have 2Go RAM, and the bug occurs before than the whole system reach this limit ! My opinion is that it related to HRDI rendering most of the time..but bad bad bad news for the CS4. I've been in contact with Eovia support a few month ago for that bug (that they told me have reproduced) and it stills there ???? Nothing more frustating than spending days in texturing, modeling, setup lights / shadows and so on, and when you ask for the final render with good parameters, then ALWAYS come this infamous message " a memory allocation has occured".... This news definitely spoiled my day :-(((

Hi

I think u should unckeck the "interpolation" param...this is probably what create these artefacts. Also u probably don't need the "improved edge", what will slow down your rendering ... Hope this help :-) Pete

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Great news ! Congrats :-) Pete

Hi Eric, Om my system, Your plugins are DEFINITELY NOT what crashes carrara with this error, because i have it with or without DCG plugins.....

Hello, I have this kind of error to quite often, with or without extra plugin...my machine is a DELL dimension 8300 iwth XP Pro 3Ghz proc/ 2go RAM/9800 pro My analysis of the problem if that Carrara has memory allocation problems ,let say when you use more that 1Go RAM. If you are using hyperthreading, you have this generic error. without HT activated, then Carrara tells you, crashing anyway at the SAME part of the scene, that a memory allocation error occured. The fact to use DCG plugin only add extra memory use (so it crashes sooner), but DCG plugins are not guilty :-). Eovia support reproduced the crash they told me, and told me also that it should be fixed in the 3.05. But this FU%*&%NG patch stills not there, and i start to be seriously PISSED OFF by Carrara, because they should issue at least one-off patches (or call it hotfix as u want) to correct that, as this bug is known since weeks. I bought The eovia powerpack + Transposer + Amapi Pro. But in september if things doesn't evolve seriously in a good way, i will drop Carrara to C4D too...

One question (with respect!): Are you sure to have a real version of Poser ? Many full warez version can be found on the WEB, with serial on so on... But as far as i know, TransPoser implements dedicated algorithms that seem to check that it's a real fully licensed version of Poser. Thus, your Poser can be fully usuable on its own, but not with TransPoser if you have this problem. Otherwise drop a mail to Eovia Support who will probably solve the problem. Just my 2 cents....

Nice Picture :-) Would i suggest to increase shadow quality maybe to soften them more ? :-) I have probably the same memory problem that you, when 'too much' memory is in use by Carrara (even if moe physical memory is available than what is used by Carrara). This should be corrected in the upcoming patch of Carrara, and i'm dying for it :-(

Nice one ..but i think that bump is a bit too heavy. I tsems also that there is a small pb on tiling of the floor texture...(not a seamless texture ?) Anyway keep going on :-) just my 2 cents....

Anyhow, the form doesn't check any serial value or whatever ! Just enter anything them go for download !

BTw i fanally found that i just need to play with the shadow intensity param to achieve to good transparency of the shadows.... so no more question !! thanks all for helping me :-) Pete

Wow ! Nice ! Thanks ! But how did u create that soft shadow ? When i try to achieve such an effect with the shadow catcher, the shadow produced is always opaque, even with the spot light effect "enable soft shadow" turned on ?? Thanks !

Hi Ed, It works fine for me in 1024 in jpg at least ... did u patched to the latest 3.03 version ????? Pete

I totally agree with Patrick !!!!