No, they never supplied a .car file for it.

Attached Link: http://www.carrarastudio.com/tutorials/littleplanet/part1/

Maya Complete is only $1,999.00. You slightly overbid.

"sailor_ed means that the effect has an impact on rendering time" Even if he did mean that, it's clearly not what he said. If he meant that he would have said: "The results are subtle but definately have an impact. (on the amount of rendering time)" rather than: The results are subtle but definately have an impact. (Visually) If he did mean rendering time then what he said makes even less sense. What he said was that the results will look different, not take longer to produce. No sailor_ed, I'm afraid you are not communicating very well at all but we won't hold it against you.

Yeah, but subtle or not so subtle the effect/impact is still visual. It couldn't be anything else.

"I have used the Zmorphics fresnel shader. The results are subtle but definately have an impact. (Visually)" What kind of impact could they possibly have other than visually? Can you hear it? Smell it? ;-)

I suppose I didn't so much mean "know it's there" as I did, "know it's funtion". It's strange that people don't know how it functions considering A) it's pretty handy B) it's been there since version 1.

It's hard to believe people don't realize that "batch render" exists but it seems that most don't.

Your black and white TIFF image is 19 MB? That's ridiculous. What possible reason could you have for making it so big?

"I thought it would enable me to export animations as .swf, looking much like the animations I'd rendered. " It will, however it will not render texture maps or procedureal patterns. (example: If you make a marble texture it will render a solid color, no marble banding). There's no reason your stuff should come out only black/gray/white unless your scene either contains no color or you have your settings wrong in VectorStyle.

"can you import poser animation into carrara" Nope. "(my friend says you can)" He/She is incorrect.

With that patch it works exaclty the same as it did in C2.

You're right, C2 didn't come with VET. At the time (of C2) you could download the VET plugin from the Eovia site. It also came as a bonus or extra (or whatever you want to call it) on the VectorStyle CD (which is where you may have gotten it). VET is now integrated directly into C3 (you no longer have to install it as a plug in). VectorStyle however is still a separate plug in.

FYI In case it wasn't obvious, (and how couldn't it be?) Shoner's thing there wasn't done with VectorStyle. It was done with the Viewpoint VET export option. It has nothing to do with VectorStyle. And your search continues...

" Brian is an amazing artist. His work is one of the reasons I upgraded from RayDream to Carrara 1" No question about the amazing part. Thing is, the only part of Rustboy made in Carrara is Rustboy's head. Everything else was made in Infini-D.