I just bought carrara 3 w/ free upgrade to c4pro but it stinks there are not a lot of textured models ready for purchase that carrara uses. I see tons of untextured .obj & .3ds but never really any .car files.

I still use c1.1. I never upgraded b/c they never touched the timeline till recently. Hopefully 4 will be a lot better then 1 in that regard. I still had big plans to not upgrade until they hired someone to make animations better but I have a rush job and the client volunteered to buy just so I could do the job faster.

Oh well its off to wings3d/mirai I go to make a santa model...

Very nice...nothings better then when a consumer piece of software shows up it's 'high end' counter parts. I am doing a few 3d pieces for a client, no one in the area can compete with me b/c they all think they need 2k + a year in school to get a handle on it. I want to tell them about Carrara but I am far to selfish :)

Here's some things to look for: 1) See that blue tab in the middle? click on it and pull up, there's a big timeline in there. You can see your key frames then. 2) See that white circle on the left side? Turn it off if you're doing a still...that's what permits animation. 3) If you don't want the camera to move, select the camera in the sequencer and then in properties uncheck animation. 4) I'd tell you to re read the manual but sometimes I want to kick myself for not figureing out extremely simple things. -brent

Thanks for the comments. Makes me feel better knowing that someone else had the same texture problem with the windows...thanks litst, it looked right, but animated wrong :) Looking back on all my 3d projects at work the renderosity community has been great, with tons of tips and tricks. Mateo_Sancarlos: This is america! The economy is booming! Ok the stock market sucks but everyone is still buying. Take a look around: AOL time warner/charter/radio/cox they are all having record blockbuster sales. There stocks are all in the dumper b/c everyone is buying everything in site and not paying off debt. I see the crap they are reporting on TV, but now is a great time for a small business. I have yet to advertise once and I already have a good 4 or 5 jobs lined up. Nothings without risk, but don't buy into the bad economy crap. Do some research and you'll see I'm right. -brent

Hey, thanks, thats going to be great. It's excatly what I needed. My brain is getting fried on this project. I only have to fill in 6 more seconds and do all the sound/post. :)

nothings hidden except in scene 3 of the spot in the office I put the toothbrush on the desk from a 15min challenge last year of stuff thats found in the bathroom. Hopefully the client won't notice b/c I dont want to rerender it :)

It appears my problem is the .ini. After I delete it, the computer is stable for a few hours and then the .ini corrupts again. I'll try to send it to Eovia and see what they say. -brent

thanks guys, I'll check into that stuff and let you know what happens. Good ideal about the .ini b/c this has never happened before. -brent

Welcome to the hell of Carrara 1.1 where you cant get decent AA to save your life. I have everything cranked, and that's the best I can get. I own a very nice high-end 3d package now but I am just getting used to it, so I have to stick with carrara. The thing is that while C1 does a lot of bad naughty stuff, it allows you to do impressive work quickly and cheaply. I just dont see not being able to use Carrara in the next few years b/c it generates impressive results much more quickly then any other program on the market. Thanks everyone for the feedback, I'll post up the final next week in mpeg1 so everyone should be able to actually view it. -brent

Ok, I cant get at carrara, but if I get C2 and use bones wont that really mess things up?

thats really sad. I would have hoped they would have fixed that immediatly. I'll have to wait and see how 2.5 looks. Maybe they will fix it then. :( back to mirai... -brent

Adam - I believe you are dead right. I have been up at 2am on the verge of chucking my computer through the window b/c of that @#$@# render failed issue...and Eovia's free tech support?? I should sue them for saying that have tech support at all...they are pretty much worthless...I have left them voice mail and email, never to recieve a response. The thing is tho...I can't leave carrara all together. I just bought my dream 3d software Mirai and it kicks @ss!!! but what 3d program has such awesome text generation as carrara?....no extruding/extra modeling...its just there... How about how easy it is to make awesome scenery??? In terms of making Scenes quickly for simple projects none of the other 3d apps in any price range can compete (imho of course) For simple work I will continue to use carrara, but how I can I trust Carrara as my main software when the company who makes it does not find it benificaial to give it a professional modeler when they can sell it extra?? I sort of feel like Eovia is about 4 years behind the curve....You cant even export the boned caracters out of carrara into a usable format by game engines unless someone ever manages to write a carrara --> .x exporter.....C2 is out and the designers still don't have the SDK...why didnt Eovia release that first???? ALSO...why use amapi at all? You take the time to make beautiful edgeloops and quads and then it just triangulizes it when you save it for Carrara. Anyway Carrara is awesome, but in terms of professional animation you can't use it for a primary tool. Its to unrealiable, and there isn't a great support system to fall back onto interms of customer support. I have 3 or 4 stories of Carrara leaving me in the cold this last year b/c of that render error, then when the deadlines got tight there wasn't even a render farm I could send my stuff to.... I will upgrade later this year, and I will contiue to use it, but only sparingly..... -brent - former carrara fan, now a carrara user only.

Won't the shockwave exporter work? I thought all flash/shockwave was all pretty much the same thing..???

wahoo..thanks for the answers, I'm going to order the update as soon as get some time this week. -brent

Great job Litst!! So am I seeing correclty? It looks like you can move the control cage around and see the sub div in realtime??? and it supports quads?? WOW!! Also was that Bevel a result of a beveling tool or did you just pound that out by hand??? Anyway..C2 looks great and you did an excellent job showing it off Litst...GREAT JOB!