I would think they are fine, and well a but of realism is good to have.  I like realism in my posts when its appropriate so Look forward if you share and a thanks in advance too.

6 and 7 have hair/fur as well

I agree, very cool.  Great to see how it evolved :)

Thanks

Like several of the big packages that only come with PDF manuals I take it and have a one off printed and bound for me.  Wasn't too costly and I have a printed manual and I had them put in extra large binding rings/spirals.  Yeah the Carrara manual isn't so much on the teaching, just this is tool X here is how it works.  I have Carrara 5 Pro Handbook and I learned alot more , I also have Mark Bremmers VTC tutorial set and those are great.  Though I like to have 2 monitors hooked up for doing that as I want to do as he shows.  I would suggest a video DVD but then resolution would be a problem.  

Thank you for the shader and the C7 update as well.

BTW what was the name of the truetype font?

From what I understand (the author told me this) is you can just download the latest and use the same serial number.  However just go to his site directly and ask.  I am hoping he releases a 7 when the SDK's are released.  I have purchased it but I haven't gotten around to installing it yet.

His site is http://www.des-web.net/html/shoestring_shaders.html  real nice guy.

He also has some samples  and other things on his site.  Hopefully he reads this and can post.

Thanks bwtr for that link too.

Get HowieFarks to submit something!   He does great things with Carrara

My Corel Painter didn't come with a printed book, most of the software doesn't come with books that are printed.  I took the PDF from C6 and went down and had it printed and bound.

I just downloaded the C7 manual, its 276 pages longer then the C6 that I had downloaded for 6.2.  Its about 40 megs larger as well.  Its about 1-2 megs larger then the 6.5 temp version, and 24 pages longer as well.

I believe the Beta is still good for a little more time too over in the daz forums

Thank you!!!

Also to see if its a Carrara and the Tiff format version that GIMP uses, try this.  Get irfanview (one of the best little image viewers/resizers etc and its free, at http://www.irfanview.com/

Open the file and save as/export to .tif again, also save out to another lossless format say PNG or BMP, then open that file and re-save as TIFF and try each one, to see if it has the same issue.  if it doesn't then it narrows down what is happening.  I would still like to try it, if you can put up a sample somewhere.

can you post a simple test with files somewhere to look at?

You could try for painting Paint.net http://www.getpaint.net/  the DazStudio would be a good choice, you can get Bryce 5.5 your millage of course may vary as you stated above about the system.