I took a look at Tree Pro and it seems very good. A little pricey with the libraries. I do actually have DPIT which is a tree generator plugin for Cinema. It is very competent for a lot of things but lacks a good library. This is why Im trying out Carrara since it has enough presets that can be modified easely plus I "knowit from Bryce. I got in contact with a companion that I asked to export a palm out of Carrara as obj and 3ds. He had never done it before so he sort of used the default settings for export. He sent it to me and both formats open fine in Cinema, obj being much faster. The only thing is that single sided polygons (leafs)have reversed normals, not a big problem thou. Both formats had the correct selection tags exported as well Also the textures wasnt correct as it looks, but that could just very well be his inexperience. So in short it seems to work pretty well! Cheers Lennart

Thanks. Good to know. I was mainly looking at Carrara as treegenerator. .obj and 3ds would be the main formats I need for import to Cinema4D. The materialgroups seems to be a problem thou. They need to turn up as polygon selections (SelectionTags) in Cinema, so I can re-apply the material again. In the Carrara manual it says procedural materials (for the tree) can be exported as bitmap textures. That would imply some sort of selection are made during export. If anyone knows more of this Id be very happy! Thanks again. Cheers Lennart

Thanks. Hm..SkyLab seems to have kicked in again.... Have to check this more tomorrow. Wierd. Cheers Lennart

Hi. First of all , many thanks to all of you!

Now regarding "broadcast rendering". What ever you do when rendering a Brycemovie - ALLWAYS- render with no compression! (Setting "None"). I had a hard learnt lesson trying to render with compression thinking it would save time. It did NOT! AFAIK the rendering is the same(timewise) -but- the compression selected just leave you with a smaller but f**cked up animation with artifacts. So, make any compression in post and have your movie at fullest quality for further color adjustments etc.
Even the highest setting in the "Animation" compression make things like clouds blocky. It is very visible when things are moving.
There is so much information taken away in the DVD version and the only way to make color adjustments correctly is to have the full bitdepth avaible to start with.

Best
Lennart