SWAMP - just wait until she's out and the ball gags are made. grins XENOPHONZ - sense, sense man! You're talking sense - that's an uncommon commodity around here ;) Will anyone listen - no

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Just an interview g I think people are seriously jumping to conclusions, here.

don't you Rubbermatt? :P thinking brain dogs, funny grins

for some things I don't want to use TransPoser. Also note this thread was posted before the TransPoser was available. Some people who use Carrara don't want to use Poser, either. TransPoser is nice, but Poser stomps all over certain types of geometry. I have bought it though.

sniff. And I ordered the first day too. Just emailed them over it.

it works, but its a stopgap until better tools are available for Carrara :( That being said, for price vs. features, I don't think any other software beats Carrara right now. The renderer is top notch, plugins are inexpensive and really add most of the functionality that is missing. (like displacement and fur from DCG, fresnel/blurry reflections from Zmorphics, etc)

I use Morpher, not bones, though you can use bones... its just a bear to edit the influences. What I really want is to be able to paint the weightmapping, instead of having to edit it almost vertex by vertex, and losing it all when I detach the skeleton. The only drawback is that morpher only lets you load one morph at a time. You need a lot more morphs for facial animation... I end up using Poser 5 to blend morphs and export as a facial target for Carrara. I don't know what Zmotion is truly going to be like, its supposed to import BVH motion files and let you import rigs and animations done in Motionbuilder. (and Poser)

morpher comes with C3. Zmorphics is coming out with another tool called Zmotion, but its not out yet.

yes I know about it... am looking forward to it. :)

yeah that's the biggest problem I think with Carrara is the weakness in character animation. But I've managed to get a lot done with Carrara bones.

I don't know if its going to be a long while before C4 comes out, C3 came out in September, C2 came out a year and a half before it. If time is any indicator on Eovia, the next update is probably going to arrive around spring of next year. But a year is a while to wait, I agree.

Its not easy... what I've done to apply facial morphs, is have the head parented to the skeleton, but a separate mesh from the body. That way I can load expression morph targets onto it. Only problem is that Morpher only takes one morph at a time... I hope that gets fixed in C4.

Amapi 7 is available for Mac.

Don could really use the work though... he's a good char and neglected badly. thanks for AnAn, she's lovely!