Hello I am thinking of purchasing carrara. I looking to start modeling, eventually being able to model clothes for the Daz Mil people. Is this a program that will allow me to do this. I thank anyone for their opinions. Thanks Simon

The question "Will Carrara allow me to do this?" can be answered "Yes." I do it, and I have talked to at least two other people who do it. The unasked question, "Is Carrara the best program for this?" I can't answer. Making Poser clothing, as I may have mentioned before, is only a little short of making fully-rigged figures, and that's some of the most complex stuff you can do in 3d. On the other hand, I learned it, so it can't be THAT tough! I'd suggest grabbing a couple of demos and some of the excellent free sofware -- like Wings -- and just starting to model stuff. You may find out you hate modelling, or you may find out you are a natural modeller. Or you may find out that making buildings or military vehicles is so much fun, clothing is no longer attractive. After you've gotten your feet wet in modelling you can start looking at the various excellent tutorials, books, training aids, and see what is involved in creating clothing for Poser. I think most of us here agree that Carrara is a very friendly modeller for a beginner. Whether it suits your needs is something for you to learn down the road.

I had the same question at a point and there was never an exhaustive answer, and I had to do it the hard way, learning small peaces at the time envying these guys who managed to do it.

Before Poser 5 and Pro Pack I got to learn through some tuts using Ray Dream, PHI builder and UV mapper making confirming clothes. It was so tedious because I could not model properly, I kind of gave up.

When the Pro pack came, it apparantly would do the needed slicing of the model easier, but for my part I did not do anything before I could model more properly and when I got hold of some better tutorials.

I started with PhilC's tutorial, but that one did not give it all because he explained his method using Thruspace app. I did get alot of valuable knowledge about what I lacked and what tools I needed.

Something wonderful happened when I got hold of the app., P-Wizard which actually made a proper conformed clothing of your sliced model based on the target CR2 file. For the slicing I was using UV mapper.

When I got hold of Amapi, I got to learn and apply some of the methods from PhilC, and even better, when I got hold of Brycetechs Amapi tutorial, I have managed to do what ever I have put my mind to make.

I have not relied solely on one app. alone, but just telling how it became possible for me.

My app. bundle is like this: Amapi Designer for modelling dynamic clothes alone, and for conforming clothes models. For conforming clothes; Amapi, UV mapper Pro and P-Wizard. And for master render, Carrara, of course with Transposer.

PhilC's and Brycetechs tutorials, also.