Forum: Bryce


Subject: 3D World Magazine

TheBryster opened this issue on Dec 28, 2007 · 76 posts


TheBryster posted Fri, 28 December 2007 at 3:08 PM Forum Moderator

Just a heads-up.
The 100th issue of 3D World has a small article on Bryce (page 86) about making waves.
and a reference to Zhann. Some cool models od the dvd coverdisc too.

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All the Woes of a World by Jonathan Icknield aka The Bryster


And in my final hours - I would cling rather to the tattooed hand of kindness - than the unblemished hand of hate...


Death_at_Midnight posted Fri, 28 December 2007 at 5:57 PM

Rats! They still have issue 98 over here.


pakled posted Sat, 29 December 2007 at 10:07 AM

so we know she's still breathing..;)

I think a heretical App (Cinema 4d, version...uh..6?) is also in the mag.

I wish I'd said that.. The Staircase Wit

anahl nathrak uth vas betude doth yel dyenvey..;)


TheBryster posted Sat, 29 December 2007 at 1:32 PM Forum Moderator

Carrara 5 pro FYI, but of course a true believer would never even consider installing it.

Available on Amazon for the Kindle E-Reader

All the Woes of a World by Jonathan Icknield aka The Bryster


And in my final hours - I would cling rather to the tattooed hand of kindness - than the unblemished hand of hate...


danamo posted Sat, 29 December 2007 at 5:19 PM

Oh, cool! Thanks for the heads-up.


Cyba_Storm posted Sun, 30 December 2007 at 2:17 AM

It can only be a small heretical app because of all the Poser crap they have started putting on the discs.


TheBryster posted Sun, 30 December 2007 at 12:26 PM Forum Moderator

578mb on disc. Includes 8 hours of training video. Full commercial version with commercial license. As Sold for $549 in 2005.

(Box pic posted as a  warning to those who might inadvertantly install by mistake. However, installation of this app, even if by mistake, is no excuse! YHBW !) 

Available on Amazon for the Kindle E-Reader

All the Woes of a World by Jonathan Icknield aka The Bryster


And in my final hours - I would cling rather to the tattooed hand of kindness - than the unblemished hand of hate...


dhama posted Sun, 30 December 2007 at 2:06 PM

Why the hell would I want to install that Frankenstein anyway.


TheBryster posted Sun, 30 December 2007 at 4:59 PM Forum Moderator

I see Dhama is looking for Cardinal status ;-)

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And in my final hours - I would cling rather to the tattooed hand of kindness - than the unblemished hand of hate...


danamo posted Sun, 30 December 2007 at 6:05 PM

*"Why the hell would I want to install that Frankenstein anyway?"-*Sorry Dhama; I can't answer that one for you, or for anyone else in this Forum. I can only tell you in brief why I plan to.  After years of dabbling in 3D (I started with Bryce2) I have gotten to the point where I am starting to receive commisions for doing stills and animation work in Carrara. In other words; my "hobby" is starting to pay for itself.  I have done this all in Carrara5 Standard, and the Pro version comes with render nodes, and other advanced tools, and will export animation files with information that AfterEffects and other video compositors can use. So I can do even more pro quality work.
   I won't crit Bryce 'cause I still use it for certain tasks and for fun. It is still about the easiest app out there for setting up a scene. I just won't use Bryce when I am under a deadline, or for animation because Carrara offers me many more animation tools and capabilities, and it renders much faster. 
  I also love being able to use 2nd party plug-ins which allow me to achieve effects, or have shader options that Carrara doesn't have "out-of-the-box".
These are much less expensive than say plug-ins for any of the "major' 3D apps, yet I am able to compete with users of these apps for many jobs. Many of the skills that I am learning in Carrara will transfer very well in learning how to use 3DMax, Maya, XSI, C4D, etc. if I eventually decide to go that route.
  As far as reasons to "install that Frankenstein", you could easily go to DAZ's website and check out Carrara's features, and see if any of them are desirable for you to learn. I take Pakled's attitude in that I am willing to try any app, 3D or otherwise available to me, especially if it is cheap, or FREE, and add it to my toolkit if I find it useful.
  I respect the artwork that you have done in Bryce. If you are satisfied with the toolkit and abilities that Bryce gives you I say more power to you! I just wanted to push my comfort zone a little and learn an app that is admittedly more complex, but it also has more possibilties for the area and direction I wish to go. Good luck, and have a Happy new Year. Dan


pakled posted Sun, 30 December 2007 at 6:59 PM

looks like I'm starting to backslide...;) Oh well, I got Bryce 4 (albeit after I got 5) in a disc on one of these magazines once...;) No program is ever useless, it  can serve as a bad example..;)

I wish I'd said that.. The Staircase Wit

anahl nathrak uth vas betude doth yel dyenvey..;)


danamo posted Sun, 30 December 2007 at 7:39 PM

Now Pak, you know I meant that in the nicest way! You've even managed to do some modeling work in BLENDER, fer gosh sakes! I have tried to come to terms with that app 'cause it has so many neat tools and potential, but the interface and method of working make me feel like I'm trying to do Origami while wearing a blindfold and boxing gloves. Oh well, I'll keep working on it and maybe it'll soak through my thick skull like water on a rock. In tribute to you Pak; I'm going to go fix something fried in bacon and eat it. ;-)


dhama posted Mon, 31 December 2007 at 3:42 AM

I did give it go..... oh heck, there goes my 'anychanceofa' Cardinal status...... but I found the interface to be unnecessarilly difficult. ...oh there comes that Cardinal chance again... Bryce got it right in so many ways, so why can't an 3Dapp be sophisticated and powerful AND have a wonderfully staright forward simple to use out of the box without having to read a bloody manual interface. Yep! Bryce has that. Possible Cardinal status absolutly glowing now!!

Quote - *"Why the hell would I want to install that Frankenstein anyway?"-*Sorry Dhama; I can't answer that one for you, or for anyone else in this Forum. I can only tell you in brief why I plan to.  After years of dabbling in 3D (I started with Bryce2) I have gotten to the point where I am starting to receive commisions for doing stills and animation work in Carrara. In other words; my "hobby" is starting to pay for itself.  I have done this all in Carrara5 Standard, and the Pro version comes with render nodes, and other advanced tools, and will export animation files with information that AfterEffects and other video compositors can use. So I can do even more pro quality work.
   I won't crit Bryce 'cause I still use it for certain tasks and for fun. It is still about the easiest app out there for setting up a scene. I just won't use Bryce when I am under a deadline, or for animation because Carrara offers me many more animation tools and capabilities, and it renders much faster. 
  I also love being able to use 2nd party plug-ins which allow me to achieve effects, or have shader options that Carrara doesn't have "out-of-the-box".
These are much less expensive than say plug-ins for any of the "major' 3D apps, yet I am able to compete with users of these apps for many jobs. Many of the skills that I am learning in Carrara will transfer very well in learning how to use 3DMax, Maya, XSI, C4D, etc. if I eventually decide to go that route.
  As far as reasons to "install that Frankenstein", you could easily go to DAZ's website and check out Carrara's features, and see if any of them are desirable for you to learn. I take Pakled's attitude in that I am willing to try any app, 3D or otherwise available to me, especially if it is cheap, or FREE, and add it to my toolkit if I find it useful.
  I respect the artwork that you have done in Bryce. If you are satisfied with the toolkit and abilities that Bryce gives you I say more power to you! I just wanted to push my comfort zone a little and learn an app that is admittedly more complex, but it also has more possibilties for the area and direction I wish to go. Good luck, and have a Happy new Year. Dan


TheBryster posted Mon, 31 December 2007 at 8:29 AM Forum Moderator

Dhama's application for postulant.....................................revoked.

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And in my final hours - I would cling rather to the tattooed hand of kindness - than the unblemished hand of hate...


johnyf posted Mon, 31 December 2007 at 9:30 AM

rofl!


dhama posted Mon, 31 December 2007 at 10:57 AM

Quote - Dhama's application for postulant.....................................revoked.

 
Whatever.......


pakled posted Mon, 31 December 2007 at 5:12 PM

well, to be honest, I haven't done much modeling in Blender. It's just a tool to do some things Wings won't..;) I still scratch my head over that one...;) you're not alone.

I wish I'd said that.. The Staircase Wit

anahl nathrak uth vas betude doth yel dyenvey..;)


Cyba_Storm posted Mon, 31 December 2007 at 5:51 PM

"...If you are satisfied with the toolkit and abilities that Bryce gives you..." Quote from danamo.

I have 3ds Max on my computer, but do most of my modelling in Wings 3D. Why? Because I like using it. Bryce is the same. It is one of those apps that I enjoy using.  It may have short comings, and it may use archane ways of achieving certain results, but it is fun. 

For me, it is about enjoying the process. 


danamo posted Mon, 31 December 2007 at 6:10 PM

I hear ya Cyba. I can't afford 3dsMax, or any of the other majors yet, but I may go that route eventually since DAZ seems to be intent on turning Carrara into their top-of-the-line content renderer instead of further developing it into a competitive all-round 3D app.
   I have about the same attitude toward Poser-type apps as you do. I am still proud to be a Wingsian heretic like yourself, but I'm really learning to like Hexagon2.2. I've been building terrain blocks and outcrops in Wings and displacement painting and texturing them in Hexagon. They work very well together since Hexagon really likes .obj imports. I still love Bryce though. It opened up the doors to the whole world of 3D and I'll always be fond of it.


Flak posted Tue, 01 January 2008 at 6:22 AM

Quote - I still love Bryce though. It opened up the doors to the whole world of 3D and I'll always be fond of it.

 

Yup. me too :)

Dreams are just nightmares on prozac...
Digital WasteLanD


Boofy posted Tue, 15 January 2008 at 11:42 PM

Hmmm, I can feel heretic thoughts abounding here!
Bryster you are being outmanouvered by the Heretics Anon. You can bow out gracefully and indulge in your inner desire to play with these lovely applications and we will not think the worse of you......promise :rolleyes: I will even make you a cup of Brimstone Tea to take away the shock if you like. Go on!  You want to! Your eyelids are slowly drooping....your eyelids are slowly drooping...


TheBryster posted Wed, 16 January 2008 at 12:25 AM Forum Moderator

Boofy, you can prise my loyalty to Bryce out of my cold, dead hands!

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All the Woes of a World by Jonathan Icknield aka The Bryster


And in my final hours - I would cling rather to the tattooed hand of kindness - than the unblemished hand of hate...


Gog posted Wed, 16 January 2008 at 3:30 AM

Danamo once you do get your head round blender, you'll come to love most of it. You just need to have one hand with twenty fingers for all the keyboard shortcuts......

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Toolset: Blender, GIMP, Indigo Render, LuxRender, TopMod, Knotplot, Ivy Gen, Plant Studio.


Boofy posted Wed, 16 January 2008 at 3:53 AM

*"Boofy, you can prise my loyalty to Bryce out of my cold, dead hands!"

*Ah so you have a nice warm heart then....btw...is tickling allowed???


pauljs75 posted Sun, 20 January 2008 at 2:08 PM

I went to Borders today to look for that one, but they're still on issue #99. It didn't look that interesting, so I got a Photoshop magazine that looked like it had some of Rochr's stuff in it instead. I guess I'll have to wait another month.


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Also feel free to browse my freebies at ShareCG.
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Analog-X64 posted Sun, 20 January 2008 at 8:03 PM

I'll have to see what they got here, its a kind of hit and miss.


Boofy posted Sun, 20 January 2008 at 9:35 PM

"I'll have to see what they got here, its a kind of hit and miss."

Sounds like most newsagents etc...some have it sometimes...maybe or not at all. I have to scrounge 5 different newsagentcies for the mags but dont want tosubscribe as some issues (in all the mags) are not worth it.


Analog-X64 posted Tue, 22 January 2008 at 7:07 PM

Quote -
Sounds like most newsagents etc...some have it sometimes...maybe or not at all. I have to scrounge 5 different newsagentcies for the mags but dont want tosubscribe as some issues (in all the mags) are not worth it.

That and the fact that most of the magazines that I'd like to subscribe to cost over $200 per yearly subscription.  So I was allowed to subscribe to one.. and I did.


Boofy posted Tue, 22 January 2008 at 8:03 PM

That and the fact that most of the magazines that I'd like to subscribe to cost over $200 per yearly subscription.  So I was allowed to subscribe to one.. and I did.

I would like to do that but my hubby's job is too unstable to fork out that sort of money at the moment....oh wll I will do the rounds this weekend...:blink:


danamo posted Tue, 22 January 2008 at 9:38 PM

Attached Link: HowieFarkes gallery

I have a ladyfriend who's interested in learning Carrara, so we're both keeping a sharp lookout at the magazine stands at the local Barnes and Noble. As soon as I see it hit the stands in the Western US I'll pounce on a couple of copies. I'll also sound a heads-up here in the Forum unless someone beats me to it. Think only Vue can do photorealistic landscapes? Check out this guy's gallery and tell me that! He did a lot of these using Carrara5!

Boofy posted Tue, 22 January 2008 at 9:54 PM

I'll post if I get my mitts on one downunder!


Analog-X64 posted Wed, 23 January 2008 at 8:43 PM

So far I've been to 3 different Chapter stores and found Issue #99.


Boofy posted Wed, 23 January 2008 at 11:32 PM

So far I've been to 3 different Chapter stores and found Issue #99.

I will have a look on the weekend. Is 99 any good?


Analog-X64 posted Thu, 24 January 2008 at 3:17 PM

the Disc on 99 contains some Daz props, some kind of Mesh Mapping program and some other things I would never bother to use.


Incarnadine posted Thu, 24 January 2008 at 4:39 PM

the mapzone procedural texture generator is quite powerfull - been tinkering a bit.

Pass no temptation lightly by, for one never knows when it may pass again!


Boofy posted Thu, 24 January 2008 at 4:47 PM

*the Disc on 99 contains some Daz props, some kind of Mesh Mapping program and some other things I would never bother to use.

Thanks Analog-X. Hmm the normal mix of interesting and dont bother!

*the mapzone procedural texture generator is quite powerfull - been tinkering a bit.

Can the results be used in Daz/Wings3d/Bryce etc do you know Incarnadine?


danamo posted Thu, 24 January 2008 at 4:51 PM

Yeah Mapzone can help you make some great textures, but you don't have to buy the mag to get it.. G**gle Mapzone and you can find their website and d/l it from there.


Analog-X64 posted Thu, 24 January 2008 at 6:34 PM

I give up I went to 2 more bookstores and all had Issue #99.  I will wait till next week or after and check again.

On a side note.. I was also looking for a Computer Music Magazine, which nobody seemed to have, one store had two copies but both were missing the included DVD Disc.

So tonight I was at another Chapters looking for the 3D and Computer Music Magazine... the guy who handles the magazines was really cool!!  he said they didnt have any Computer Music Magazines left in stock... but proceded to pull out 4 Different DVD Discs that were no longer use to him since they no longer had any Computer Music Magazines, so he gave all 4 of them for free and to top it all off, one of the 4 discs, is actually from the latest issue that I was looking for.

I dont really care about the magazine itself its the content of the Discs that is what I'm interested in..  Considering that each Magazine is about $21 + Tax = $23+ I got about $95 worth of Discs for free!! :)


TheBryster posted Thu, 24 January 2008 at 6:37 PM Forum Moderator

Wow! Way to go, Analog!!!

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danamo posted Thu, 24 January 2008 at 10:03 PM

In the States here the issues of 3DWorld are around $16 U.S. Still, for the price  of two mags, I can get two commercial licenses(for a friend and myself) with 10 render nodes! We can do some serious web design then.


Analog-X64 posted Fri, 25 January 2008 at 5:26 AM

If you live in the US, a 13-issue subscription costs £60
If you live anywhere else, a 13-issue subscription costs **£75
**
I live in Canada so I wonder if I fall under the anywhere category :)

going by the current exchange rate 60 pounds = $118.75  works out to be just under $10 per issue.**

**


Boofy posted Fri, 25 January 2008 at 6:28 AM

*So tonight I was at another Chapters looking for the 3D and Computer Music Magazine

Analog-x, what sort of music mags are you after,  & what part of Earth do you inhabit? I have seen some computer music  mags here Down Under a while ago, I can keep an eye out for more you if you like??


Analog-X64 posted Fri, 25 January 2008 at 3:24 PM

Quote - Analog-x, what sort of music mags are you after,  & what part of Earth do you inhabit? I have seen some computer music  mags here Down Under a while ago, I can keep an eye out for more you if you like??

Just like 3D World Magazine, I only buy certain issues that have content that interest me.   It depends on the content really... like if there are any free audio samples or Virtual Synths.

the Majority of the good magazines for Musicians, do come from the U.K.  if I run into a situation that I cant get a particular magazine I'll send you a site mail... Thanks.


Boofy posted Sun, 27 January 2008 at 4:03 AM

Just like 3D World Magazine, I only buy certain issues that have content that interest me.   It depends on the content really... like if there are any free audio samples or Virtual Synths.

the Majority of the good magazines for Musicians, do come from the U.K.  if I run into a situation that I cant get a particular magazine I'll send you a site mail... Thanks.

No probs Analog-X, Happy to help. Jen


pauljs75 posted Sat, 02 February 2008 at 4:35 PM

Issue #100 is now available state-side. :)  (Or at least here in the midwest.)  Went to Borders Bookstore today and nabbed one. Seems funny going to a bookstore for one specific mag, but it has good stuff on the included CD. I'm also suprised at how busy the bookstore is on a Saturday, I had to park two shopping center entrances over - since the front and side lots adjacent to the bookstore were full. (Maybe there was some other deal or something going on?)


Barbequed Pixels?

Your friendly neighborhood Wings3D nut.
Also feel free to browse my freebies at ShareCG.
There might be something worth downloading.


danamo posted Sun, 03 February 2008 at 10:26 AM

Thanks for the heads-up Paul.  Issue 100 hasn't hit the local bookstores in Portland/Vancouver yet, but I'll bet they're shipped from the East Coast. I'll check for it tomorrow.


Analog-X64 posted Sun, 03 February 2008 at 5:57 PM

Thanks for the info.. I will check out my local Chapters store tomorrow after work and see if they have it  yet.


Analog-X64 posted Tue, 05 February 2008 at 5:48 PM

Ok so... I came home from work.. changed out of my dirty work pants into nice clean ones and drove to get some grocery shopping done and buy the magazine.

Wife and I get there only to find that, I left my wallet in my work pants... so she had to buy me the magazine. :)  So I only purchased one issue... I might go back for another... there are some neat stuff on the CD.

Now with Carrara 5 Pro in hand, I can re-start the video I was working on before my HD Crash.


pauljs75 posted Wed, 06 February 2008 at 1:33 AM

It'll be interesting to see what gets cooked up after that adventure. :)


Barbequed Pixels?

Your friendly neighborhood Wings3D nut.
Also feel free to browse my freebies at ShareCG.
There might be something worth downloading.


Death_at_Midnight posted Wed, 06 February 2008 at 11:15 PM

I just wanna read about Zhann in that issue.


danamo posted Thu, 07 February 2008 at 2:13 AM

I hit paydirt at Barnes and Noble yesterday. Issue #100 finally hit the stands and I snagged a couple of copies. :-)


TheBryster posted Thu, 07 February 2008 at 6:58 AM Forum Moderator

The Zhann item is only a little thing. No need to get too excited.

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All the Woes of a World by Jonathan Icknield aka The Bryster


And in my final hours - I would cling rather to the tattooed hand of kindness - than the unblemished hand of hate...


Analog-X64 posted Fri, 08 February 2008 at 4:29 PM

Quote - I just wanna read about Zhann in that issue.

Its a small Tip.


Boofy posted Sat, 09 February 2008 at 4:37 PM

Been to every newsagents and borders stores in a 10 klm radius and I can only get issues 99 + 101. One newsagents said they only got 2 copies and those hardly hit the shelf, so I have had enough running around and put in for a back order of issue 100 before it sells out completely.


Analog-X64 posted Sat, 09 February 2008 at 4:54 PM

Boofy: I'm crossing my fingers that you find a copy.

There is an offer in there that ends in february which is to upgrade to Carrara Pro v6 for $164.. which is not a bad deal.. .I'm thinking about it.


Boofy posted Sat, 09 February 2008 at 11:37 PM

Thanks Analog-X, so am I. I have heard that Carrara is a good prog so it would be fun to try it....sorry Bryster, the heretic in me is just tooooo curious🤤, keep that comfy chair handy.


danamo posted Mon, 11 February 2008 at 2:21 AM

I found a cool little trick in Carrara that I thought I'd share with you. I took a texture from that cgtexture site that was mentioned previously and opened it in Photoshop. I converted a copy of the texture into grayscale and applied a gaussian blur of about 3 pixels. I opened up Carrara and added a couple of sphere primitives to the scene and added a finite plane for the ground. I added a realistic sky background with skylight for a Global Illumination effect.   I took the texture previously prepared in PS and added it to the displacement channel in the sphere's shader. I took the original texture and applied it in the color channel, made a copy of the sphere, reduced the size slightly, moved it upward, and rotated it about 45 degrees.   I added another prepared texture to displace and color the finite plane, added a little tree for scale, hit the render button, and viola!  I'm stoked at how well the textures and displacement wrap around the Carrara primitives. The actual geometry of the sphere is being changed by the displacement maps so you can have realistic shadows and lighting. The whole procedure is dead simple and took about 30 mouse button clicks including the image prep in PS. I think it makes a really cool looking rock formation. What do you think?   The pictures show the spheres and plane before and after rendering. If you like, I can write up a tutorial of this and other tricks I've learned. Here is the before showing wireframe view...

danamo posted Mon, 11 February 2008 at 2:24 AM

And here is the "rockstack" render. Obviously I could go nuts with this and add more plants and trees sticking out of the rocks, more rock stacks, background mountains, etc. but you get the idea.

Analog-X64 posted Mon, 11 February 2008 at 3:16 PM

Danamo: That is just too awesome!!! Going to try it out myself... nice little tutorial. :)

Boofy: Did you find a copy of the magazine yet??


danamo posted Mon, 11 February 2008 at 3:24 PM

Thanks Analog-X! It was just so easy to do and I hadn't seen a tutorial using this method.


Boofy posted Mon, 11 February 2008 at 5:38 PM

Nope! i have 99, one store has 101. No luck for 100. I havent heard back from my email to order a copy......I think I will wrap it in gold trim if I eventually get the $%$$ thing!


ThunderStone posted Tue, 12 February 2008 at 7:35 AM

Quote - And here is the "rockstack" render. Obviously I could go nuts with this and add more plants and trees sticking out of the rocks, more rock stacks, background mountains, etc. but you get the idea.

That is so awesome!!! I will have to go to my nearest Mag place downtown 42nd st across Bryant Park and see if they have it... Otherwise, it's this for me for the rest of my creative life...

:b_drool:   

and then

:b_crying:


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Poser: Poser 11.3 ...... Units: inches or meters depends on mood
Bryce: Bryce Pro 7.1.074
Image Editing: Corel Paintshop Pro
Renderer: Superfly, Firefly

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TheBryster posted Wed, 13 February 2008 at 5:44 PM Forum Moderator

I so wanna delete this thread.. :lol:

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Boofy posted Wed, 13 February 2008 at 6:49 PM

Yaaay! Got one in Melbourne! Any others looking go to 'Mag Nation' near the corner of Collins and Elizabeth sts, Just where the tram stops there were 2 more on the shelf! i will take it home and play tonight! just saw Zhanns tip Great stuff! Go Rendo's!


Boofy posted Wed, 13 February 2008 at 6:57 PM

I so wanna delete this thread.

No chance Brycie dear....BTW: are we corrupting your morals or making you twitch towards the heretic folds????


Boofy posted Thu, 14 February 2008 at 1:23 AM

Hmmm, OK this is what I have got....what next??? I cannot find out in the manual where the blazes my toolbars have gone to :cursing:.....unless The Bryster has snuck in and pinched them on me to save my heretic soul :wub:.

Can anyone tell me where to find them please????


danamo posted Thu, 14 February 2008 at 2:42 AM

It's TheBryster's Fault!!  Seriously though Boofy,  I haven't seen quite this problem before. This does look kinda like an OpenGL glitch of some sort, or a video driver prob. I had a problem with disappearing menus on my old machine, but haven't since I built a newer system with a much better Video card. Do you have this installed on a newer machine?
 
From what I can see from your screenshot, you can still see your FILE Menu header at top left of screen. If you can click and open it there's a setting you can check  underFILE>Preferences>Application>3DView, which can switch between the software preview and the OpenGL. It can't hurt to try switching from one to the other to see if that might help clear things up.
 
If that doesn't help, I would recommend trying out this question on the denizens of the Carrara Forum because they in truth would probably be able to answer this question better Than I. Besides, dear girl, we don't want to give TheBryster any excuse to shift this whole thread to another Forum just because you asked a question about that app, lol. This thread has turned into a thorn in his side, and we want to keep it there, haha! I'm enjoying my "heretic" status way too much!


FranOnTheEdge posted Thu, 14 February 2008 at 11:23 AM

Cripes!

I've only just now realized - reading this thread that you are saying that the 100 Issue of 3DWorld has Carrara5 pro on it... full version.

:b_upset:
:b_angry:
:b_confused:
:b_stunned:
:b_rolleyes:
:b_drool:

As I had not been able to install from a friend's Computer World copy, and couldn't find a copy to buy myself, I'd pretty much given up on it - so you mean to say that I'd had in in my 3DWorld mag all the time?

Grrr!!!   Yippeee!

Now I dunno whether to be angry or happy, both probably, split personality. Lol!

Measure your mind's height
by the shade it casts.

Robert Browning (Paracelsus)

Fran's Freestuff

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Analog-X64 posted Thu, 14 February 2008 at 3:08 PM

I'm considering taking the offer to upgrade to Carrara Pro v6  which ends at the end of this month.


FranOnTheEdge posted Thu, 14 February 2008 at 5:43 PM

The DVD doesn't work.

See? Heretics get punished...

Measure your mind's height
by the shade it casts.

Robert Browning (Paracelsus)

Fran's Freestuff

http://franontheedge.blogspot.com/

http://www.FranOnTheEdge.com


Analog-X64 posted Thu, 14 February 2008 at 5:51 PM

Quote - The DVD doesn't work.

See? Heretics get punished...

Is the Disc Scratched??


Death_at_Midnight posted Thu, 14 February 2008 at 6:05 PM

Is this the Bryce forum or Carrara?


danamo posted Thu, 14 February 2008 at 6:34 PM

Forgive me if I ask an obvious question Fran, but you are trying to install using a DVD-rom, or DVD burner aren't you? I ask because I had a friend who tried to install using his CD-rom and it took me the longest time to explain to him why that wouldn't work. ;-) I didn't have any probs with my installation of CarraraPro5.

In answer to D_a_M, this is the new Carrara Forum annex, didn't someone tell you? ;-P


Boofy posted Thu, 14 February 2008 at 7:55 PM

D-a-M, blame The Bryster, he started it! we just gleefully jumped on board!
Seriously though I am going to unload and reload it on the weekend Danamo and see if that helps. Jen


FranOnTheEdge posted Fri, 15 February 2008 at 6:16 PM

Thanks all, I have - it seems - a faulty or corrupt disc, sent it back to Future Publishing as per their instructions, today.

(Not scratched, just no good)

(P.S. I was using a dvd drive - I have two, tried it in both.  I know I'm usually incredibly thick, but this time I knew about CD's and DVD's but my drive will play both...)

Oh, P.P.S. saw Zhann's mention!

See? back on topic... ggggg

Measure your mind's height
by the shade it casts.

Robert Browning (Paracelsus)

Fran's Freestuff

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spinner posted Sun, 07 September 2008 at 4:23 AM

Quote -
Boofy: Did you find a copy of the magazine yet??

Hi, 

i didn't see this until now, I don't come here all that much anymore. 
If this is the QnA-image you're talking about, 3D World's 6 month copyright has run out, and I could always post it on my website, if people are interested? 
The reference in the QnA is to Zahnn's Raging Seas/The summoning. 

~s