Aha!  That Control + Tab was exactly what I had in mind!  I like the shift click on the different options too - thank you! :)

I noticed the new header the other day and then forgot to say anything about it - very nice!  I also noticed that the Carrara F.A.Q. apparently has no questions, because of course, as Carrara users, we already know everything worth knowing. ;)

I've been kind of wandering through the thousands of pages of free stuff here at rendo in my spare time over the past couple weeks - there's a lot of really great stuff in there but I haven't come across that little robot model yet or I would definitely have grabbed it and used it in something; I had tons of those as a kid.

I was thinking "Particles" for the next theme - which gives me a couple months (or however long it is before we start up again) to learn how to use particles, something I've been meaning to do for about the last year. :)

I really like that 1930's Menswear outfit - I used it for the photo in the lower left corner of this image:

Usually the unimesh fits require the basic outfit in order to work - the one you linked to requires the Space Dwellerfor M4 outfit.  I don't know about this one specifically but I have some other unimesh fit outfits and they work fine in Carrara; I used this one Menswear 1930's Unimesh in a render not too long ago and it not only loaded fine, it auto-fit to Gensis 2 Male almost perfectly.

Village Creator 1 and 2 work in Carrara 8.5, although the ground comes in at a bizarrely large size - you either need to scale it wayyyy down and make a lot of duplicates/replicate it or adjust the texture and tile it at about 6x6 or 8x8.  The textures are a bit low-res but that's not really a loading problem. :)

Very nice effort. I hoist a glass of ice water in your general direction!

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Here's the final. :)

This is just a WIP - I'll finish it this weekend when I have a little more time - I need to work on the lemon slice UV and shader, add some modeled water drops and actually do something with with the lighting (it's just a low quality HDRI and the default light right now) before rendering with good settings.

Lol, yeah.  The first step is admitting I have a Carrara problem and the second step is to just embrace it. :)

I like it.  Also, I liked it.  Also I hate you because I had things to do yesterday and I downloaded that bottlemesh.3ds file and spent way too many hours texturing bottles and fiddling with lighting instead of working on what I should have been working on.

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"Strange Weather"

Rain of fire created by applying a tracer sprite and a gun flash sprite to a splat in a replicator.

How about "Splines and Things That Rhyme with Splines" for the next theme. :)

For those who are as bad at rhyming as I am with the Spline modeler...

http://www.poetrysoup.com/what_rhymes_with/spline

http://www.rhymes.net/rhyme/spline

Aspirational imagery of the best kind. My paper airplanes always ended up a nose like an accordion. 

Attack Formation!

Made in the vertex modeler - this model could really use a bit more work but I'm going to go with my usual "good enough" standard. :)

I will say that I think the subsurface worked nicely to show the sun glowing through the higher planes - I think I'm starting to get the hang of that channel.

I figured out what part of my shadow problem was and fixed it, but apparently once you close the window you can't edit your post anymore. :(

Still not perfect, but a little bit better... 

My first idea was to do something with negative lights and colored shadows, but I couldn't make it work the way I pictured.  So, keeping with my original shadow idea here's a quicky - this one isn't great either but it's something.