Thanks. I tried importinng characters and props and it was fun to see that the textures imported along. The only annoying thing is that Carrara asks to locate several of the textures. The problem was however with the eyes. It doesn't bring the texture from the eyes or eyelashes, so you get white eyeballs with no iris and black non hairlike eyelashes. I was reading the thing you posted. it was good, I still am wondering if there is a way to bring in characters into Carrara with Inversekinematics and bones already in place. but i guess maybe not. Oh wait! you can also import several frames from a poser animation to ccarrara right? so that will be great: ) thanks everyoen

Great! Thanks eveerybody including Daigoro. However, i don't see how the appropriate Textures will import to the poser models. For example, Vicky has her own texture etc. But I doubt carrara will know how to paste them to her body. Another thing i'm shocked about Carrara, and would like to know if there is any way to fix it, is the speed. When i had the G3 macintosh and Ray Dream Studio 5.5 i could get pretty awesome renders of say Cubes, spheres etc. In little time, But now it takes like loads of time, especially that Number 1 symbol that appears in a box that indicates the section being rendered. It goes in Subrows of that particular section, that makes it slower. I'm on a G5 with 512 MB ram, should i add more? However, moving things around in the modelers is super fast , it's just the rendering is kind of slow to me. ANy tips??? thanks

Great BlueTone. Me too, i'm having fun. It's awesome aside from the fact that i don't know how to use it well yet since i got it just yesterday. I should do some tutorials and look through the manual in depth. What feautures would you recommend for me to try? Have you created your own characters?

Oh, and i saw the FedEx site and now my tracking number got results so i was able to see the expected delivery date. So how's Carrara at first, are you like all confused when you start it up? or is it simple to use?

Great news everyone! Mine is getting heere tomorrow by 3 o clock. So after work i should be able to feel it with my own hands. Pricilla did say it, shipped out of san diengo at 5:30 pm today, my city is a few hours north. . at last, now i'm thinking what to try out first in carrara. : )

Wow jval. YOu sure are lucky. Well, according to Pricilla, who i complained to, i should be receiving mine tomorrow. So happy^_^

GOT it! I think i got it. The problem is, like i said before, there is only one guy at the sales office. And he's not your hard working bee, he seems to take long breaks up to 3 o clock PM.

I'm beginning to understand what you guys are saying. I previously said that "wow, i'm getting mine in a week". But It's already 29th of september, which is the day they said it would ship, and there is no working tracking number. Unacceptable!

Great. I ordered this week on tuesday and got an email today that is scheduled to ship on the 29th. and by the way, yes sir ee, they have a small staff . you can get a sense of this by listening to the answering machine you get when you call and the only guy there says "i'm not at my office". He's nice though. I aint have Carrara yet but in the meantime i'm posing some posettes in poser.

I ordered last week so i'm still waiting. But i get the feeling it is coming. He he, that 7.75 tax got me in the tail. Total was $459.92 Ray Dream 5.5 was nice, pretty awesome. Except for the Mesh modeler, it was hard to do anything , plus i had a slow machine. I m sure C3 will be much better now.

don't know about you but for me the G5 solved many problems. I use poser and coudln't even start a descent full render anim. For example, one frame would take minutes, like 5 or sometimes just wouldn't. I had a G3 at 300Mhz. Now it renders one frame full render( maybe without antialiasing) at 10 seconds. creating my movs now and happy : )

I have to agree with all of you, it looks weird. But what i'm most concerned is the Chat not loading.. In the previoussite style, i couldn't get chat in IE 4.5 , but i could in Netscape Communicator 4.6, now i can't in both. plus the chat area that i do get, starts flashing like crazy

Great RHaseltine, thanks.. Now I FOUND THE ANSWER!!!! It was dumb ZipIt that made Textures not work. When i opened the Zip file containing all the textures and models not with Zipit but with StuffIt, itWORKED!!!! That was tricky, i wouldve never known.

Hey everyone. 6:00 Pacific time, i was reading through people's emails here And i discovered what my problem was, it was that i was opening the Zip files with ZipIt. !!! Then textures would not work but i tried opening with stuffit and the texture now work perfectly. that was weird. i never thought that would be it

Oh man, i never thought of that. I have Quicktime 5.0.2 I hear there is 6.3 now right? maybe i should update. He he GOod idea. Thanks man