Carrara dead huh?

I believe I mentioned this some YEARS ago.

And now you think another near death program is a viable alternative? Seriously?

Either you're all gluttons for punishment, enjoy throwing money down the toilet and have money to burn on outdated and dying software, or enjoy being perpetually 5-10 years behind everybody else - I don't know which.

It's almost funny to watch, and sad in a lot of ways.

So then what? Carrara will only be 15 yrs behind everybody else? And it probably still won't work and they'll still charge an outrageous price for it.

Told ya.

How long have I said DAZ doesn't give a rat's ass about C or it's users? That's why Carrara went to shit, because DAZ just didn't care enough to keep it relevent.

FINALLY! Someone who gets it...

WHAAAAT!!!!  But you've got all those "new features", you can start AND stop animations now!! So everything I said has been spot on - have fun waiting....

I've said ad nauseum my issues are with DAZ, not carrara. Carrara is my be all end all CG app. I'm just frustrated DAZ has done nothing to retain me as a customer. I have a huge; 120 gig, selection of older content I can easily use in carrara. But since most new content or at least new content for the new dollies, doesn't work or work well in carrara there is no reason for me to shop at DAZ. I can get far more carrara compatible content from other sources. I stepped away from carrara to get over the frustration of trying to use the new DAZ content in it and change my mind set back to using the old content. I needed a brake. But DAZ has pretty well destroyed my hopes DAZ would ever do anything with what is the best CG app in it's price range.

So now is your time to put up or shut up titanic, link us to what YOU have done in Blender, or step away.

First let's see something BESIDES posed, naked DAZ figures in some of your work - ever do anything ORIGINAL? Any schmuck can pose SOMEBODY ELSE'S models...

I've stepped away from carrara for a while. Playing NFSW again. DAZ's last patch was a jank, destroyed any hope I had of DAZ every fixing C8.1 or there ever being a C9. And I just wont be janked around by DAZ anymore.  

I might get back to carrara, but I am done with DAZ. That last patch that didn't actually fix anything just proves they don't want me as a customer.

WHAAAAT!!!!  But you've got all those "new features", you can start AND stop animations now!! So everything I said has been spot on - have fun waiting....

My wallet isn't empty, I don't shop at DAZ, I haven't paid for an update for 2 over years, not sure what delusional world you are getting your information from.

In fact you would be hard pressed to find any one on this forum guilty of what you are accusing us of. The carraraests here spend very little if anything at DAZ on any sort of a regular bases.{an issue of DAZ"s own creation}.

The only thing I can figure is you are a very frustrate petty individual that has been banned from the DAZ forum so you bring your impertinent petty arguments here, were no one really cares what you think. Then you get agitated when we ignore you or tell you your opinion means little more then a popcorn fart in a high wind.

And I'm working on quitting smoking so in a mood to argue

I managed yesterday on 3 cigs and 3 pieces of nicerett gum. Figure I'll get out of the cigaret habit then the nicotine.    

Want a cigarette?

Any normal person would know how to post using a quote with out adding their post to the quote. Something that seems beyond your ability. If you can't manage something that simple on a forum how can you possibly use any comp graphics software.

For some one so in to Blender you seem to not exist on the forum or in the gallery. Do you actually do anything besides come here to run down carrara and it's users?

No? Then pick up that soap box and go gripe else ware. You're just spitting in the wind here, no one cares what you have to say.

Somebody woke up on the wrong side of their empty wallet this morning... How is it my fault you cashrara (oops, typo) people keep taking it in the ass from DAZ? How's that "update", the "update" you've been complaining about for the last 2 years, working out for you?

You have the power to "stop and start animations" now. Don't let all that new carrara functionality you keep paying for go to your head, with great power comes great responsibility. Just think how many more halfnaked nuns you can pose now.

I especially love the Marquee selection of key frames for Graph Editor and the Play/Stop animation "features"... seriously?

Only to a carrara user would this be considered worth paying for, any normal person would have thought you would able to "marquee select" anything at all after version 1.

Marquee selection IS NOT a feature, it's should have been in there already.

"Play/stop animation" - so not only can you "play" an animation, but you can "stop" it too?!?!  OMG - way to go DAZ for setting the bar so much higher.

Assuming 10 years ago we were with version 5 you've now got -

Bullet Physics 

Soft Body

Dynamic Hair

Paint 

Non Linear Animation Clips

Mimic for Carrara ( plug in)

and

 What’s New in Carrara 8.5? ( as listed by Daz)

⦁ Native DSON Importer means seamless integration of:

⦁ TriAxTMWeight Mapped figures (Genesis, G2F, G2M)

⦁ General Weight Mapped figures

⦁ Legacy Parametric Figures (4th Generation and earlier)

⦁ DSON presets

⦁ Scenes

⦁ Scene Subsets

⦁ Wearable(s) Preset

⦁ Character Preset

⦁ Properties Preset

⦁ Shaping Preset

⦁ Pose Preset

⦁ Hierarchical Material(s) Preset

⦁ Material(s) Preset

⦁ Shader Preset (preset must be for a Carrara shader)

⦁ Camera(s) Preset

⦁ Light(s) Preset

⦁ Support for multiple UV sets (through Hierarchical Material(s) Presets and Material(s) Presets)

⦁ Native AutoFit functionality means:

⦁ Conversion of legacy parametric clothing to TriAxTM weigh mapped figures

⦁ Automatic Morph Projection quickly gives you the fit you need for your figure’s shape.

⦁ Automatic Weight Map Projection allows AutoFit clothing to bend and pose smoothly with the figure.

⦁ Morphs built into clothing are carried through the AutoFit process.

⦁ Improved Sequencer, Keyframing and Animation Tools

⦁ New keyboard shortcuts to:

⦁ Play/Stop animation

⦁ Advance the frame

⦁ Preview a frame

⦁ Key Frame Filters

⦁ Sample – Creates a key at every frame of the animation.

⦁ Smooth – Smooth out wild keys to get an even looking animation

⦁ Reduce – Programatically determine which keys are unecessary and eliminate them.

⦁ Graph Editor Box allows for fine tuning of animations

⦁ Easily adjust timing

⦁ Simple yet powerful manipulation of amplitude

⦁ Scale, and translate key frames along the Graph Editor.

⦁ Marquee selection of key frames for Graph Editor.

⦁ Smart Content and Daz Content Management System Integration.

Not all is perfect but then you're not paying $4000 for the software.

All these "features" are only good if you want to keep suckling at the DAZ content teat and dropping your money down their toilet, plus all of these "features", like everything else in craprara (oops, typo), only works half-assed at best.

I can do all this plus a 1000 times more using Blender AND it costs NOTHING!

So where did you get the "$4000" figure? Let me guess, you actually paid $4000 for some piece of software? You must be one of the "if you don't pay through the nose for something, it's not as good" crowd. I imagine you would pay just about any amount to DAZ for the "priviledge" of being able to pose halfnaked girls in "fantasy armor".

  My simple answer is - for the "money" currently only $159 I think there is nothing better than Carrara  for an all round software that will utilise daz AND poser content and imports and exports a plethora of formats. It is not perfect and that is more Daz's fault through lack of interest in developing and marketing Carrara. Someone said it is little different to Carrara of ten years ago - not true of course - many things added since then. If you can live with the software as is there is a lot to learn about what it can do as any regular user will testify. Forget the negatives here and elsewhere and give it a try  

http://bond3d.wix.com/carrarators#!carrarcafe/c1ms5

 http://www.bond3d.byethost18.com/index.php

"Many things added..." - like what, exactly?

  

Once again Blender to the rescue, Blender has built-in 3d printing tools.

One more thing carrara doesn't have and never will.

Why do people keep paying for it again?

Why are you staying on this forum if you don't like Carrara ?

Same reason you keep paying for it - I'm a glutton for punishment.

He asked a question and I merely answered it - how is it my fault that carrara fails again when DAZ could have added this functionality years ago?

You want me to lie next time?

Once again Blender to the rescue, Blender has built-in 3d printing tools.

One more thing carrara doesn't have and never will.

Why do people keep paying for it again?

On question that I do have about Carrara: Does it have something along the lines of Maya's 'set driven key' functionality? What about proxy rigs?

No. None of those things.

Hope you didn't waste the money yet.

Hello ladies and gentleman,

titanic401 is a troll. Please don't feed him. He hijacked a thread in June and is very close to getting banned. He only shows up to insult members. His lack of any work and nothing but vitriol speaks volumes.

Mark

I am NOT a troll.

I am however an ex-carrara user who got wise and for the life of me can't figure out why anybody would continue to PAY for a old, worn-out piece of software that is no different or better than it was 10 years ago?

Does that sound like DAZ cares to you?

You call me a "troll", but prove me wrong on anything I've stated. If you want to ban me for stating my opinion, knock yourself out but all that will do is prove one of the other statements I made that if anyone dares say anything against DAZ they will be silenced.

And why? Because DAZ wants to keep you paying for software that hasn't had any new features or modelers for YEARS, features that are now considered basic to every other package around. Any motion tracking in carrara yet? Any compositing? Any animation drivers? Does carrara have access to any other rendering engine yet which isn't a creation of DAZ? Any softbodies? Any cloth simulation? Any smoke simulation? Any nodes? A built in game engine, perhaps? Any HD rendering yet?

I think you and I both no the answers to some, if not all, of these questions and that would be 'NO'. And why not? DAZ hasn't collected enough money yet? Why is it that carrara still looks and functions the same as it did 10 years ago? What's DAZ's excuse for that?

You accuse me of "hijacking" a thread - how is stating my opinion and asking legitimate questions "hijacking"? So, basically, anybody can post anything they want as long as you and DAZ agree with the content?

You claim I have no work to show? What "work" would you consider proper without being accused of "hijacking"? I can quickly go pose a figure, put a sword in it's hand, brag about my "degree" - which by the way is pretty much ALL carrara is still capable of these days.

Instead of throwing out accusations and calling me a "troll", why don't those who still think carrara is relevent and still insist on paying to keep waiting for a .xx "update" from DAZ, show their work. Just between you and me, there is no "update" is there? The reality of it is that DAZ is just collecting money based on the 'hope' of an update. And in the end, update or no, carrara will function the same as it always has - lousy.

So ban me if you don't agree with my opinions under the guise of being a "troll". Truth doesn't matter anymore apparently, unless it's the way somebody wants to hear it.