I agree, I have rendered the scenes that HowieFarkes has put together for Carrara and they are fairly complex with items.  There are some in his gallery that are pretty large.

His Gallery at cgsociety http://howiefarkes.cgsociety.org/gallery/
His Gallery on his own page http://howiefarkes.com/#_images/gallery/

This one was interesting
http://howiefarkes.cgsociety.org/gallery/559385/

100 instances of tree's with about 10,000 replications per instance

Another thing to try out is dream-lounge.com

They have some free light sets and a couple of free tutorials.  However its worth joining for the in depth tutorials

I don't believe your SN is tied to mac or pc, you should be able to switch to the mac one.  Just reset your download and grab all the files for the mac version.  Also they said in the forums on daz that C7 is coming along.  I don't remember off hand the timeframe though.

Looks like they are coming along nicely

Thanks This should be a lot of fun to use!

Thats great about getting back into this.

I would recommend that you try Dream Lights tutorials.  You can look at the first two for free, and even just sign up for a month to get everything, but there is a lot if you keep it going.  Also right now they are having a 50% off sale on the membership. 

http://www.dream-lounge.com/dreamlight/home.htm

To see a list of the tutorials you get I believe you can go here.  About half way down the list you will see "Daz Studio for the Beginners" part one and two that you can get for free. (they are up to 12 videos in that series now).

http://www.dream-lounge.com/dreamlight/club/membersarea.php

You can also can get a free Light Dome for Daz Studio as well.
Hope that helps

Thanks! going to download this tonight

Google seems to becoming more the evil day by day.. I am trying out Cuil (cuil.com) its made by the lady who developed a lot of the algorithm that google uses and has something new she says.  Not sure if its the 'one' at least for now going to spread things a bit.

Thank you very much!
Milo

Very cool! thanks for sharing this.  It also gives ideas!

-Milo

Victoria is Poser/DazStudio content product just install it into your regular runtime.  Then in Carrara make sure you have added that runtime to the Content tab of the object browser.  You have to add the Carrara specific shaders to her.  There is a tutorial to save all the shader steps into just one, as well as what shaders to  use for V4. 

I have in mine for example I use an external runtime for just about everything.  There are some things that DazStudio ships with.  So I added both those runtimes to Carrara.  I also have a temp runtime that I test things with and can wipe completely.

V4 shaders in Carrara
http://forum.daz3d.com/viewtopic.php?p=1076290&highlight=#1076290
Saving the shading domains to one drag item (works for many objects).
http://forum.daz3d.com/viewtopic.php?p=1099125&flatnum=1#1099125

You can copy the poser.exe stub that is in the DazStudio directory (its to fool installers BTW) into any other runtimes for when poser is required, however by selecting dazstudio you are getting everything you needed.  Make sure you run the update victoria that shows up on your desktop, and have only one installed.

The first your saying like Ca rare ra right? or are you saying Car EE ra

I am going through them now.  I ended up buying the DVD and its a fantastic resource.

Go to ShareCG.com and do a search with chainmail  it will return textures for M3 Norman and other just textures in general.

Quote - This is the way that cameras works in 3D... I dont remember but theres a value to adjust to this, its called clip plane or something.

I will have to look that up.  That may be what I was seeing myself then.  Thanks