Several questions were asked by DustRider regarding Shade3D in this thread (See Link). Since that thread topic is the creation of a vampire effect in Carrara, I thought it would be more appropriate to answer the questions here.

1. Regarding the contents in the image below: The room is Jack Tomalin's excellent model Baroque Grandeur. The mirror is a prop from Jack Tomalin's The Library, and the model is The Orange Girl.

1. The scene was built in Poser and brought into Shade3D through PoserFusion.

2. The scene could have been built in Daz Studio and brought into Shade#D through FBX export See Link.

3. The FBX export from Daz Studio preserves the skeleton structure, so the poseability is not lost. But the FBX export for complex models could be a bit of hit and miss, so you may have to bring the model by small chunks.

4. The Poser Fusion does an excellent job at bringing Poser content into Shade with all the texture mostly intact. The image below rendered in Shade3D had no shader tweaking whatsoever, except the rug where the diffuse value had to be lowered because it was too bright.

@ DustRider:

Well, what can I tell you. If you want Shade to act like Carrara in every respect, then don't use it, because it's not for you.

@ DUDU.car: Keep fantasizing. No amount of convincing will get it through your head that my vampire effect was done in Shade with only a few mouse clicks. So then download Shade Professional and try it for yourself. End of the story afaiac.

@ diomede:

Who cares what you are currently learning or doing? You are off-topic mister. The topic of this thread is to see if Carrara can do a vampire effect in a complex scene. So far all I have seen were 2 (unacceptable) entries. This is proof that Carrara can't handle vampires. I have submitted my own entry, done with Shade3D with a few mouse clicks, to prove that Shade3D can handle vampires gracefully, in a very complex scene. I could add a dozen more vampires, and Shade3D won't blink.

If you have a solution for the vampire effect in Carrara, a solution that scales to dozens of vampires in a complex surrounding, please post here, otherwise go start your own thread.

diomede posted at 5:28PM Tue, 14 August 2018 - #4334726

But, Dr. Bernie was just spreading misinformation. It really wasted a lot of my time. Oh, he often backtracks and amends his statement, but that doesn't restore my lost time.

It's time for your cereals, kiddo.

OK so Shade3D can do a vampire effect very easily, while Carrara can't. Shade3D 15, Carrara 0.

Next I will explore Lightwave and Cheetah3D for their vampire effect ability.

So far I have not seen anyone meeting this render challenge. Therefore I think I am right by saying that the only animations Carrara is good are spinning cubes and bouncing balls.

Oh shush. Do you even know what 'Walking and chewing gum' means? It means someone has difficulties performing basic everyday tasks.

I am working on 2 articles: Daz Studio as Carrara replacement, and Blender as Carrara replacement. Stay tuned.

diomede posted at 3:50AM Tue, 14 August 2018 - #4334637

This is his record. It is not my opinion. It is not an attack on him as a person (probably a wonderful person). But on this forum, he is just spreading misinformation about a program he no longer uses and wasting people's time. If you are a Carrara user, best to put him on ignore if you don't want to see false information and have your time wasted.

A big pile of rubbish by an 'artist' with only 2 gallery entries in 5 years.

headwax. posted at 3:43AM Tue, 14 August 2018 - #4331494

That's funny Wendy. I wouldn't do that! I enjoy bernie's digs at carrara. Always puzzles me what motivates him/her though. He she appears to want users to move away from carrara and use other software by proving that other software is better.

I think that's admirable, trying to help us like that. I can't wait to stop using carrara now I know it's no good.

:)

Some people do enjoy my exploring of other 3D apps as Carrara replacement. See his posts above.

What a pile of rubbish. Before you talk, actually do name-callibg, I would like to see some of YOUR Carrara works first.

What a rogue, uncalled-for, hostile comment. A true disgrace.

I would like to observe that you only had 2 entries in your gallery in the last 5 years, both of them of very average artistic value, if at all. No captivating lighting, no interesting narrative. Nothing that would entitle you to act as a 'counsel' to people who visit this forum.

BTW, my 'vampire' effect above was rendered on a network of 4 computers with a total of 44 threads of execution, and 240 GB of RAM, in 9 minutes and 19 seconds. This proves that Shade3D, unlike Carrara, has a network renderer that actually works. It also proves that with a total of 500 threads of execution in a render farm with an average of 64 GB of RAM per node, an animation like this can be rendered in a reasonable amount of time, with a very high quality, without exorbitant license fees.

Oh, one more thing, Shade's network renderer is licensed for an unlimited number of nodes.

After all your mostly ineffective attempts at creating a vampire effect in Carrara by tweaking the alpha channel, or putting a hole in front the camera, or all kinds of contorted solutions that simply won't scale to a complex scene with numerous characters, here is Shade3D's solution. It's simple, all you have to do is to disable the reflection attribute for those shaders that you don't want to reflect.

A Vampire Effect should be a built-in feature in every 3D app. Here in the US, all local TV stations run vampire movies on Saturday nights, so it's not an unusual thing.

If your Carrara 'Pro' can't do it, then take it back and rewrite it.

Sniff!

@ wendyvainity:

It must be done in one render, no compositing, no photoshopping, no postwork allowed. Otherwise it would just be 'Mission Difficult', not 'Mission Impossible', See Link.