Forum: Carrara


Subject: what project yoo workin on today?

MistyLaraCarrara opened this issue on Jul 21, 2018 · 85 posts


MistyLaraCarrara posted Sat, 21 July 2018 at 6:07 AM

i'se goin out exploring snap reference photos. old kodak 7k pixels park, animal petting zoo.

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ProPose001 posted Sat, 21 July 2018 at 12:17 PM

...Today? Working with Antonia by ODF(?). Great character for Carrara!!

edit Workin on a couple of beers too. That burger looks good!


diomede posted Sat, 21 July 2018 at 1:20 PM

I'm working on a golf shirt for G8M


Steve K. posted Sat, 21 July 2018 at 3:24 PM

The current game level/cut scene contest here, back to the Age of Sail ... ⚓


diomede posted Mon, 23 July 2018 at 8:11 PM

Come to think of it, I modeled and rigged an old man and a boy for a fake game called "Get off My Lawn!" They are based on Dennis and his neighbor Mr. Wilson. Rendered some fake screengrabs. Maybe I should try my hand at animating the figures for the contest. Do the contest evaluators ever say anything more severe than "Hell no!"?


diomede posted Wed, 25 July 2018 at 6:18 AM

Today I am going to work on a project for the Carrara Monthly Challenge over at that other forum. Well, after I have an appointment.


ashleyb posted Wed, 25 July 2018 at 3:33 PM

diomede we never say "h*ll No!" look forward to seeing you & Steve as a submission!









diomede posted Mon, 30 July 2018 at 6:20 AM

Thanks, Ashleyvs. Always appreciate encouragement.
Today, I think I am going to revise the rigging of some of my custom figures.

Some very experienced software developer incorrectly stated that a Carrara rigged figure cannot have two actions at the same time. Turns out that a Carrara-rigged figure can have dozens of NLA tracks applied simultaneously, maybe even hundreds, but must pay attention to order of preference if actions for the same joint or morph are stacked. Hey, we are all wrong sometimes. But then I found out that this person does not have Carrara installed and does not currently use Carrara (if the user's posts are to b believed). Pretty rude and obnoxious to frequent a forum for software not installed and not used, and then knowingly make false assertions. Wasted a lot of my time.


Wonga posted Thu, 02 August 2018 at 1:08 AM

Just fiddling around in Carrara

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also doing a sorta Corgi morph on the HWBig dog for fun

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MistyLaraCarrara posted Mon, 06 August 2018 at 3:56 PM

kittehs! 😹



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diomede posted Tue, 07 August 2018 at 7:01 AM

Excellent pets, Dave. Today I am going to watch a tutorial for substance painter and substance designer. Then I will try to model a simple object and render it in Carrara.


MistyLaraCarrara posted Sun, 12 August 2018 at 7:03 PM

officially working on fantasy tavern for officially workin on scifi flying fortress. with a 'private' chamber for a lusty space pirate captain

made all quad bottom starter for bottles and drink wear

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dr_bernie posted Tue, 14 August 2018 at 7:12 AM

I am working on 2 articles: Daz Studio as Carrara replacement, and Blender as Carrara replacement. Stay tuned.


diomede posted Tue, 14 August 2018 at 8:45 AM

I am working on the renderosity animation challenge. Originally, I wasn't going to because Dr. Bernie told us that Carrara couldn't have a figure do two things at once. He even had a thread with a title saying Carrara could not have M4 walk and chew gum. Turns out Carrara can have dozens of simultaneous NLA tracks applied to the same figure. But, Dr. Bernie was just spreading misinformation. It really wasted a lot of my time. Oh, he often backtracks and amends his statement, but that doesn't restore my lost time.


dr_bernie posted Tue, 14 August 2018 at 12:21 PM

Oh shush. Do you even know what 'Walking and chewing gum' means? It means someone has difficulties performing basic everyday tasks.


DUDU.car posted Tue, 14 August 2018 at 12:36 PM

Diomède, I know you like that, I'm working on a second "Catastrophes" sequence (no good sound nor real postwork yet...)😂

http://www.bond3d.byethost18.com/index.php?topic=147.msg2130#msg2130


Steve K. posted Tue, 14 August 2018 at 3:41 PM

diomede posted at 3:41PM Tue, 14 August 2018 - #4334726

But, Dr. Bernie was just spreading misinformation. It really wasted a lot of my time. Oh, he often backtracks and amends his statement, but that doesn't restore my lost time.

Yup. The "Ignore" button is your friend.


dr_bernie posted Tue, 14 August 2018 at 5:29 PM

diomede posted at 5:28PM Tue, 14 August 2018 - #4334726

But, Dr. Bernie was just spreading misinformation. It really wasted a lot of my time. Oh, he often backtracks and amends his statement, but that doesn't restore my lost time.

It's time for your cereals, kiddo.


diomede posted Wed, 15 August 2018 at 11:49 AM

DUDU.car posted at 12:48PM Wed, 15 August 2018 - #4334748

Diomède, I know you like that, I'm working on a second "Catastrophes" sequence (no good sound nor real postwork yet...)😂

http://www.bond3d.byethost18.com/index.php?topic=147.msg2130#msg2130

Great job, Dudu! Fluidos has really ben an amazing addition.


MistyLaraCarrara posted Thu, 23 August 2018 at 10:19 AM

just trying to stay awake at dayjob today

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MistyLaraCarrara posted Mon, 27 August 2018 at 10:24 PM

started proj to import michael 4 to duf and triax wm saving him to his individual characters i want to use

would be more ideal to be able to remove polys under clothes without messing up the morphs. if the vert order doesnt change ... dunno

sorry if sounds ungrateful, but sick of being told about genx xfer m4 to genesis 😒



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Steve K. posted Tue, 28 August 2018 at 7:24 PM

MistyLaraPrincess posted at 7:23PM Tue, 28 August 2018 - #4335383

sick of being told about genx xfer m4 to genesis 😒

I don't understand most of that, but it sounds like my sticking with Gen4 characters in Carrara is a good thing.


diomede posted Fri, 31 August 2018 at 8:49 AM

I will be modeling some props for my entry in the Carrara challenge at that other forum. Must use one of the DCG plugins that Eric generously made free and open source. Theme is Frontier.


diomede posted Fri, 31 August 2018 at 5:20 PM

Ended up working mostly on terrain with the intent of using the plugin that creates shore lines where water meets terrain. Great concept.


diomede posted Mon, 03 September 2018 at 10:36 AM

Completed the terrain, but instead converted it so it could be used with the Fluidos plugin. To use a terrain with Fluidos, it must be an enclosed object, not just a single facing sheet. I used the zero edge filter with a setting of 80 to get the narrowest and steepest edges, converted to a vertex object, and then enclosed the bottom with the fill command. I then tessalated the bottom. Could just select the top and add thickness, but that increases poly count compared to selecting and filling the bottom.


Wonga posted Sat, 08 September 2018 at 2:13 AM

yep, I been doin' some Carrara modelling for same challenge.. a helicopter and a sledge

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Wonga posted Sat, 08 September 2018 at 2:24 AM

and also been modelling some Sherlock props... as a hobbiest I find Carrara my goto software for having fun at modelling and rendering :-)

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Wonga posted Sat, 08 September 2018 at 2:27 AM

Carrara is such fun to use and modelling can be done quickly as you can manage... I did all these models here and above in well less than week and I don't know what I'm doing!

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Steve K. posted Sat, 08 September 2018 at 3:05 PM

Wonga posted at 3:03PM Sat, 08 September 2018 - #4335937

Carrara is such fun to use and modelling can be done quickly as you can manage... I did all these models here and above in well less than week and I don't know what I'm doing!

Very nice. Maybe I should take a break from short animations and try modelling. Some day. 🎞


MistyLaraCarrara posted Sun, 09 September 2018 at 8:34 PM

we alll live in da yellow submarine, lol, song stuck in my head now. looks fantastik!!

i was in hospital last 9 days, can barely remember what i was doing. think was the tavern. skooma botlle, oh yes. was making label separate piece on the bottle.

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WendyLuvsCatz posted Mon, 10 September 2018 at 2:57 PM

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MistyLaraCarrara posted Sat, 06 October 2018 at 8:17 PM

cant get over the disappointment of the new g8m minotaur cryyyyy 😿



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WendyLuvsCatz posted Sat, 06 October 2018 at 8:48 PM

yeah it's total bull, the geografts won't work well in Carrara anyway so no loss

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MistyLaraCarrara posted Sun, 07 October 2018 at 9:01 PM

wendyvainity posted at 10:00PM Sun, 07 October 2018 - #4337226

yeah it's total bull, the geografts won't work well in Carrara anyway so no loss

bull, lol

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mrsparky posted Tue, 06 November 2018 at 3:48 PM

Today...using CG to create "plans" for a wooden storage cabinet.

One thing I find with making furniture is that some tools are in imperial, but I also work in metric, so way to easy to convert things wrong. Which is where C5 comes in, it allows me to create a part in inches then change the measurement to CM.

Also by being able to visualise things before getting hands on, I can see straight away that things are the right size, or that it will fit. Thus - hopefully -less wasted wood.

In theory having accurate plans should allow the use of accurate tools, such as digital calipers. I've already made a router jig/sled (using shelf uprights) with a value of 90.002, aka 1/4 of 1 mm out on the vertical. But one day I'd like to reach the bronze standard of many colleges/contests. Where every joint can have a maximum variance of 1/16th of a inch (1.5mm).

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MistyLaraCarrara posted Thu, 08 November 2018 at 1:56 PM

brings back memories of Dr Geep's magic box 🗃



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NetWorthy posted Tue, 20 November 2018 at 10:46 PM

Been out of circulation for a couple of years dealin with real world stuff and a lost muse, and I'm really bad out of practice. When I picked up the loose ends to get started again, I re-discovered a folder with about 30 unfinished images. So I decided to finish most of them as a kinda warm jump start LOL! But I may not be able to finish them all: I got a couple of new ideas just from working, plus a couple more from a couple of Rendo friends. Good times again!


ProPose001 posted Fri, 23 November 2018 at 4:27 AM

MistyLaraPrincess posted at 2:25AM Fri, 23 November 2018 - #4339337

brings back memories of Dr Geep's magic box 🗃

Poser University!!!! Just looked through it yesterday for the first time in years. Lots of good info!


MistyLaraCarrara posted Sun, 02 December 2018 at 8:49 AM

is cheering to find a bit of life coming back to the carrara

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MistyLaraCarrara posted Thu, 06 December 2018 at 10:42 AM

thinking a beach walk with shops, like Santa Barbara



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Lacathedral posted Thu, 20 December 2018 at 1:40 PM

Yes, I still use Hex and Carrara! I just built a new machine with an I7 12 core chipset and GTX 1080 video card and 32 gigs of ddr 4000 ram. Rendering is fast and easy. I'm toying with some Christmas stuff, the Erzgebirge is animated but I'll just upload a still shot.bells.jpg Doc2.jpg


MistyLaraCarrara posted Fri, 21 December 2018 at 9:11 AM

12 CORES???!! 💚(green with Cores envy 😹 UNLEASH THE CORES POWER,



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WendyLuvsCatz posted Mon, 07 January 2019 at 6:20 AM

I have been playing with Mandelbulber 3D rendering 360 backgrounds to use in Carrara as well as exporting Mandelbulbs

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WendyLuvsCatz posted Mon, 07 January 2019 at 6:21 AM

awww my Facebook VR doesn't embed

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MistyLaraCarrara posted Wed, 09 January 2019 at 8:11 AM

i is programming an excel spreadsheet, working out year to date hours formulae the ifs function isnt working, cant imagine why, having to nest if statements, is a pita doh



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diomede posted Tue, 05 February 2019 at 5:17 PM

I’ve been working on models of pipes and related plumbing fixtures. Uvmapping has been a challenge.


MistyLaraCarrara posted Wed, 06 February 2019 at 9:07 AM

da uv unwrapping unwraps an egg without distorting >.<



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MistyLaraCarrara posted Wed, 13 February 2019 at 9:39 AM

whaz new putty tatt mow meooww meoww

mebbe if we showed a vendor like Rhiannon how good her creations look in carrara, they might do stuff for carraara. or exnem

worth a try.

that flowy stuff wendy been rendering. looks brilliant in carrara 😂



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Wonga posted Sun, 03 March 2019 at 1:20 AM

started with a cube and finished up with this in a day

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MistyLaraCarrara posted Sun, 04 April 2021 at 6:02 PM

i wish cubes would speak to me like that. tho, i can uvmap one 😄



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WendyLuvsCatz posted Mon, 05 April 2021 at 6:44 PM

I am doing Hag Skank, yes she is sadly that other software DAZ studio but the background for some is Carrara.

and some Twinmotion.

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WendyLuvsCatz posted Mon, 05 April 2021 at 7:11 PM

gis0008.jpg gis0128.jpg gis0219.jpg

and some scifi stuffs

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WendyLuvsCatz posted Tue, 06 April 2021 at 8:02 AM

cube0000.jpg animating displacement (and backdrop) using a Mandelbulber 3D fractal animation as the texture, in Octane considerably faster than Carrara native displacement.

just started will be a few hours to do my 4800 frames

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WendyLuvsCatz posted Tue, 06 April 2021 at 8:04 AM

the other one that took 10 hours

my embed not working, works in preview, loses the body posting

[is here]https://www.facebook.com/wendy5/videos/10223367094039585/

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MistyLaraCarrara posted Sun, 11 April 2021 at 12:35 AM

i block that site with a hosts file. redirects to 127.0.0.1



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MistyLaraCarrara posted Sun, 11 April 2021 at 12:51 AM

i'm up to page 102 in my project to backup my whole prod lib. need a couple more ssd externals. 90 pages to go. i'm skipping most of the v4/m4 stuff.

ise ready to take a brake from d/ling and gonna start installing in the morning. a few at a time and save them to carrara. decided to start with ant farm and predatron sets.

still undecided on g2. i use to render gianni 6 maybe is time to replace him with a g8. there still 2 v4 characters i was using in my movie, havent found replacements for then. only cause they have the perfect attitude i like in a supporting actress. can see ow casting directors get ulcers.

i don't know how relative paths work in carrara files. i know the jpgs can be external. dunno if the geometry can be external, like the poser geometries folder.

finding some nice pbr shader files on pbr websites. haven't found anything for good plain old dirt. want the dirt to look so fresh i can imagine smelling it. hoping vendors will start coming out with pbr shader sets. i don't understand how roughness works or how to make one. but i guess, how many skin roughness maps do i need. can prolly keep using the same one.



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WendyLuvsCatz posted Wed, 21 April 2021 at 6:28 AM

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Unreal Assets FBX and obj exports in Carrara, Octane render, I am doing a video

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Wonga posted Fri, 23 April 2021 at 12:51 AM

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WendyLuvsCatz posted Fri, 23 April 2021 at 1:45 AM

looks cute ?

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diomede posted Sat, 24 April 2021 at 10:52 AM

Thank you for Crar!


WendyLuvsCatz posted Wed, 28 April 2021 at 3:25 AM

a Metahuman, in Unreal not Carrara ? but I wanted to share him somewhere

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MistyLaraCarrara posted Wed, 28 April 2021 at 5:10 AM

motioning the camera around takes a lotta practice. >.<



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WendyLuvsCatz posted Wed, 28 April 2021 at 5:21 AM

in UE4 sequencer it defies all logic, keeps changing my keyframes, I didn't want it to do that!

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MistyLaraCarrara posted Mon, 03 May 2021 at 6:49 PM

one project was to convert my animates sets to animated .duf

i forgot hows. iirc, it was a right click operation down near the key line?

Wendy!!

help??

for some quirky reason the animates importer doesnt do well with the hip. which was a real issue with the belly dance animates.

converted the v8 belly dance to g8m. lot more to get done. theres the old thriller dance moves i'd like to convert too

theres other ds plugin usages to prep content



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WendyLuvsCatz posted Tue, 04 May 2021 at 12:06 AM

click anywhere bottom left in the Animate timeline to bake them to keyframes in DAZ studio and save an animated pose.

I usually choose the box with the name of the Aniblock set in it

no the AniMate importer for Carrara is not good on G3 and 8

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MistyLaraCarrara posted Tue, 04 May 2021 at 1:34 AM

wendyvainity posted at 1:32AM Tue, 04 May 2021 - #4418355

click anywhere bottom left in the Animate timeline to bake them to keyframes in DAZ studio and save an animated pose.

I usually choose the box with the name of the Aniblock set in it

no the AniMate importer for Carrara is not good on G3 and 8

thank you.

i bought the aniblock for the deepsea eagle. should be interesting project.



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Wonga posted Fri, 14 May 2021 at 12:53 AM

done today.. :-)

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WendyLuvsCatz posted Sun, 16 May 2021 at 10:11 PM

in Unreal Engine but no other forum to share here ?

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WendyLuvsCatz posted Tue, 18 May 2021 at 12:24 PM

I bought more HW3D cat pelts today ? too cold to sit by computer (yes 7°C is cold for me?)

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MistyLaraCarrara posted Wed, 19 May 2021 at 3:50 AM

is the twinklies the issue makes you not render animations in carrara?

its a pretty serious issue. i'm starting to think i cant use carrara to render my movie.



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WendyLuvsCatz posted Wed, 19 May 2021 at 4:10 AM

I am not quite sure what the twinkies issue is?as don't see anything particularly wrong, Carrara looks far better than fireflies from iray or Octane just takes much longer than the latter, I often end up using Carrara native instead of Octane because of that.

Main other reason I don't use it more often is my CPU overheats easily, I need better hardware.

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MistyLaraCarrara posted Fri, 21 May 2021 at 11:23 AM

tee hee. wondrin if R would let me name a product butt invaders. only cuz for a tentacoosssss monster would be highlarious.

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WendyLuvsCatz posted Tue, 25 May 2021 at 12:51 AM

dug out the M4 Immortal Ronin from my Runtime, hat tassels have lots of morphs

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WendyLuvsCatz posted Sun, 30 May 2021 at 5:12 PM

my flames don't always animate, I did change some parameters and move he completion slider to the end at the end, sometimes they do, sometimes they don't

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WendyLuvsCatz posted Sun, 13 June 2021 at 4:24 AM

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Carrara render, faster than Octane on my i7 with 4 cores 8 threads and 3.6Ghz clockspeed

(the Ryzen 3 would crawl like a snail, the GPU for Octane it's only saving grace)

I need a fridge first or I would buy a Ryzen 9 processor NOW! so prob next year at this rate but this has convinced me to kick Octane to the curb in future

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HMorton posted Sun, 13 June 2021 at 2:44 PM

Yeah, the Carrara will be faster on CPU because Octane requires GPU with Cuda. If it's a newer version of Octane, then it depends on the architecture of your GPU. I think it will only use the CPU when your GPU runs out of VRAM. If you have an older GPU, then newer versions of Octane will not perform as good. However, the results look much better in Octane than the Carrara version.


HMorton posted Sun, 13 June 2021 at 2:45 PM

If you have an Optix enabled GPU, it will use the Optix denoising which should clear that noise up nicely.


WendyLuvsCatz posted Sun, 13 June 2021 at 2:51 PM

it's only 100 samples on that frame as I am rendering an animation so yes noisy, and I did enable the denoiser, unlike DAZ iray Octane will not use the CPU to load the geometry at all and it is pretty much maxing my 980Ti with that scene, this is OR4Carrara plugin not the DAZ one. The Carrara render doesn't have those noise issues as well as being faster so definitely my preferred choice for this scene.

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ProPose001 posted Sun, 13 June 2021 at 4:33 PM

Missus wants a free standing linen closet. Using real wood and real tools. Real boring!!!


HMorton posted Sun, 13 June 2021 at 4:45 PM

wendyvainity posted at 4:37PM Sun, 13 June 2021 - #4421210

it's only 100 samples on that frame as I am rendering an animation so yes noisy, and I did enable the denoiser, unlike DAZ iray Octane will not use the CPU to load the geometry at all and it is pretty much maxing my 980Ti with that scene, this is OR4Carrara plugin not the DAZ one. The Carrara render doesn't have those noise issues as well as being faster so definitely my preferred choice for this scene.

Yes, it will definitely be faster for a number of reasons. The first is that your GPU isn't able to handle all the scene and is probably offloading a lot of it to your CPU, which will be slower than if your CPU is taking all the load to begin with. I don't know which version of Octane, but like I mentioned, newer versions will not work as well with older GPU cards because the architecture of the card is different. Lastly, we can see that the Carrara version is not nearly as complex or accurate in the shadows or realism. Octane will always try to make the most realistic lighting for the scene possible. When you have a completely enclosed scene, lit by only a bunch of emission lights, then It's going to try to bounce millions of light rays around the scene to create more ambient light. This will take TONS more processing power. Carrara is obviously not even attempting to do that. The carrara scene appears to be flat and lit much more like a first or second gen gaming engine, except for some raytracing. So I guess it depends on the look you are happy with, because they certainly look like two completely different scenes.

I feel like if you really cranked up the render settings and set up the Carrara scene to render with the same look and quality of the Octane scene, then render times would tend to even out. Then again, it would depend on your GPU for Octane. Your 980 ti would be good in earlier versions of Octane, but not so much the newer versions. You'd need a card that had much larger VRAM capacity in order to load all the textures and geometry into the GPU.

So yea, without a GPU upgrade, and without try to actually make the scenes look exactly the same in both engine, the Carrara version will always render faster.


WendyLuvsCatz posted Mon, 14 June 2021 at 1:15 AM

some better Carrara Octane renders

too many samples in these to do an animation

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MistyLaraCarrara posted Mon, 28 June 2021 at 12:13 PM

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MistyLaraCarrara posted Mon, 28 June 2021 at 12:48 PM

installing the 3dc ship elements sets. soo confusing. its a challenge, dont feel up to it.



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