I have recently been experimenting with exporting from Carrara to Flash, with mixed results. I use the Toon Plug-in and the Poser Pro-Pack. With the Toon Plug-in I have rendered out to animated GIF and sequenced GIF. I import in to Fireworks to optimize the palette, then import to Flash as a symbol. The problem I run into the most with this technique is file size. With the Poser Pro-Pack, I import simple models from Carrara as wavefront objects and animate them in Poser, or I render an AVI movie from Carrara and import it into Poser as a background movie and render out to Flash. File sizes are fairly manageable, but no cool Carrara camera controls or other special FX. Also 12 fps seems to yield the best results for quality and file size in both applications.

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Yes I was able to see the cube. In my earlier post I said that Navigator was not supported, I was in error. So I tried to instill the Metastream 3.0 plugin for navigator and was successful. I cant find where it is embedded for IE5, but the plugin for Netscape is called Mime Type application/x-mtx Description MetaStream Plugin File Suffixes Mtx If you type about:plugins in the URL field of navigator you can see what plugins you have. I went to http://www.metastream.com/download.html then followed the link Download the MTS3 partner release: A little Java app launches asking to install the software. Then a dire warning pops up about installing software, I clicked yes anyway. A dos window popped up and installed the plugin. A Netscape window then popped up asking if I wanted more information about plugins. I closed that and went back to the demo page and successfully viewed the Demos. After my earlier post I remembered something that happened when I first installed Metastream 3.0 that seemed a little funky. The first time I clicked on a demo I got a pop up window asking to install a Windows component off my D: drive. If this happens to you, click the triangle by the drive name and chose install from Internet. I hope this helps, I know how frustrating it can be when you want to do something and the technology fails. Let me know how it goes bob

I think that it only works with IE 4 or better, no Netscape or Macintosh support yet, were you using Netscape or a Mac? It was a very confusing download for me but I was able to view it in IE 5. In addition to the Metastream 3.0 update I also had to download some kind of component, I think it was svgml, though I dont really remember. Once the download is complete the Demo was very impressive. The objects load very fast and have great detail. bob

Great image, the sidewalk and the garbage are outstanding. I think I have my monitor set a little dark, is the female rising out of the smoke of the cigarette? bob

Amazing, very dramatic.

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Things that are definite: Bob Rice will be in charge of the whole company. Metastream 3.0 debuts Friday March 31st. Many partnerships formed (Adobe, Nike etc.) Metastream will charge based on usage. Things that were alluded to: Announcement regarding graphic software sometime next week. Mark Zimmer will stay attached to the software. It might not be an outright sale; it might be an [arrangement].

Things that are definite: Bob Rice will be in charge of the whole company. Metastream 3.0 debuts Friday March 31st. Many partnerships formed (Adobe, Nike etc.) Metastream will charge based on usage. Things that were alluded to: Announcement regarding graphic software sometime next week. Mark Zimmer will stay attached to the software. It might not be an outright sale; it might be an [arrangement].

Posted the same question the other day. Got these responses, all work. Viper: what i do is save my charater with clothing as a .cr2 file in the library. then save the scence as a .pz3 file and then rename the pz3 file to the same a the cr2 and then i can open it in poser from the menu. i works most of the time Im hopeing mason will have a tutorial soon JeffH: You can only save one figure per CR2, but there is a way around this. Save your file as a pz3, then manually rename it to .CR2 and put it in your library directory overwriting the CR2 you made in your first attempt. -JH. JeffH: Viper, Integrating the P4 clothing into a figure is easy. Using this figure and clothing as an example: Open the P4nudemale OBJ in Compose, then Open the shorts OBJ merging it with the file already open. Save the OBJ file to a new name in the same directory as the nude figure. Open the p4 nude male CR2 in an editor such as CR2editor and change the two directory references to point to your new OBJ file. Open this new edited CR2 inside Poser, let the resource build and there you have it...the nude male wearing the shorts. -JH. Bam: Here's another way. You can save (normal save)the figure with clothes and in posed position in a .pz3. Then import the .pz3 using the import function. In this way you can save various figures and poses in separate files and then import them all in when you want to compose the whole scene *************************** I love this forum Hope this helps bob

Thank you all so much!