Lyne opened this issue on Jul 31, 2014 · 8 posts
Lyne posted Thu, 31 July 2014 at 12:30 PM
My only beef with "Carrara" is how do you SPELL IT!? :) But seriously...I just had a really bad-a** graphics machine built for me, installed win7 64 bit and now my OLD Carrara 8.1 renders as large an image (both dpi and physical size) as I want! I LOVE watching the image "melt into view"... giggle fit!
The main thrill for me is that I don't have to buy Pro, no need for the "64 bit" when my 32 bit works a treat! heheeeehahahahha YAY! Am I happy or what?! The ONLY reason I got and kept hoping Carrara would work are Howie's scenes...I spent a fortune on them, because in my opinion NO OTHER LANDSCAPE RENDERER WORKS to create photo-real landscapes and Howie takes all the pain of creating them out of life!
I am admittedly dyslexic... and doing anything original in Carrara is just not possible for me...and I am also a "post-work fanatic"... I am most at home creating backgrounds and adding my POSER characters perfectly rendered in later. (My brain could NEVER wrap around DS, and it looks like - from browsing around in this forum, that's a good thing, in relationship to Carrara anyway.) I do remember that my particular Carrara version could actually bring poser INTO itself really well... so if I wanted to learn the lighting that would make them look proper, I could... but that's just too time consuming when I can get perfect results from poser's renders....
Mainly I just wanted to let folks know that the 8.1 version is VERY compatible with my win7 Professional 64 bit!!
runs off to play in Howie-Carrara land!
Lyne
Lyne's Creations
Life Requires Assembly and we all know how THAT goes!
Xerxes0002 posted Thu, 31 July 2014 at 2:00 PM
Woot congratulations!!
I have plans on taking your coats you just posted and using them in Carrara. Not sure if you have adjusted or saved out the coats as Carrara Shader, but if I do that I will send em back.
I am trying to get my own head wrapped around rendering layers and postwork myself.
Again congratulations!
manleystanley posted Thu, 31 July 2014 at 2:43 PM
Grats. 
One of my dreams is a render farm 
Lyne posted Thu, 31 July 2014 at 6:11 PM
oh gosh, I don't even know HOW to make a Carrara shader!? The coats are JUST in jpg form with instructions on how to apply them WITH CWRW's coats on the HiveWire horse... her textures make up a lot of what I didn't provide with this conversion job... But sure, I'd be glad to host a "shader" of them on my site, if you can work that out! :)
Life Requires Assembly and we all know how THAT goes!
Xerxes0002 posted Fri, 01 August 2014 at 12:52 AM
I will see about doing it this weekend. I need to review a couple of things.
booksbydavid posted Fri, 01 August 2014 at 1:24 AM
Congrats on the new machine, Lyne, and on Carrara 8.1's new lease on life for you. I still use 8.1 Pro and it's still works great!
@Stan-Never thought you were the farmer type. (heh, heh. couldn't resist)
tsarist posted Sat, 02 August 2014 at 1:10 AM
Congrats on the new machine!
Howie does make some really cool stuff, you'll love what you can do.
By the way, I don't know how to make shaders, but you can buy some from Daz website.
Holyforest and a few others have created some really great items.
booksbydavid posted Sat, 02 August 2014 at 10:51 AM
Yes, Holyforest's shades are very good. He's got a shader for just about everything.