Dose anybody here use Creature Creator by FxRealm? Is it any good? -Grimpup

I use it and its nice. Worth the price. Morg and Antman are from Creature Creator. See my on-line store here at Renderosity under Hawkin-Z GraF-X Clint

I do have a problem with this type of program...is it useable for animations? I look @ this and poser and I really want one of them, but until someone can come out with a plug-inn its use's seem pretty limited. Come on! Lets see some news on V2.0 of C

Brent - Yes. You just take the model out of CC...do a lot of work on it and bring it into Poser. You can then animate it in Poser. CC doesnt render or texture. It creates .3DS files. You then have to convert the .3DS to .OBJ and take it from there. Clint

Ok so I animate in poser...how do I bring it back into Carrara for animation? Can I make the model interact with my 3d world in carrara? Lets just say I have a car made in carrara....How complicated would it be to make a poser figure sit in that car..and then how complicated would it be to bring the animated figure back into carrara? Im not being sarcastic here..I just really want to know. Poser seems like the most ideal solution for my needs, but its usefulness appears very limited from the info I have seen.

Each program (Poser, Carrara, RDS, 3DS MAX etc) have thier own type of IK setup to use for animating models. So, If you wanted the figure to move in Carrara you have to bring it out of Creature Creator then into Carrara, start choping it up and setting IK information. or If you wanted the model to be animatable in Poser then you take it into Poser once you have choped it up and set all the Joint Parameters. I dont know how human figure animation will behave in Carrara. I havent tried it. Carrara will work with Robots and things that have pivot points. Humans need to have bend zones where skin is stretched over a pivot point and Im not sure Carrara will do this. Poser will since its designed for human figure manipulation. Ghost has some robotic type figures that are animatable in Carrara...They should be in the Renderosity On-Line store. Robots have pivot points at the joints. Humans do as well but we have skin stretched over the pivot points. Im just not sure that Carrara will work properly with skin bending/stretching over the pivot points. Im almost sure it wont work..but not 100%. Make any sense at all? Clint

I have the standalone version of Creature Creator and I like the program, but I have a BIG warning for anyone who is interested in the product: The REGISTRATION number for the product (without which it will NOT work!!!!!!) is tied to the computer that you installed it on!!! That same registration number will not work on any other computer!!! And, if you make some modifications to the original computer and then have to reinstall Creature Creator, the original registration number MAY no longer work even on that computer!!! So, no problem, so long as you never make any significant changes to your current computer and you never buy a new computer. Of course, they'll always give you a new registration number for your new computer, won't they? Probably, but go to their web site and look at what kind of detailed documentation they want from you if you buy a used copy of the program (from a previous user). They really don't trust you. But what happens if you buy a new computer and the company has gone out of business??? You're SOL!! Or what if they just don't like you? I made some criticisms of their product many moons ago (this very subject: the registration number; Clint may remember my postings), and now they won't respond to my email messages about their new upgrade. (They have responded REAL fast if they don't know it's me; but when I identify myself I never get a response.) So I ask you, when I need to re-register my old version (I just bought a new computer), will they send me the new registration code or just ignore me???? I don't know yet. Let the buyer beware!! bitplayer