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no its if you been good or not ;-)
Why aren't mine all red, then? I'm confuzzled.. :P
Wishes for Carrara:
- More stable particle system
- Better Poser/Daz content browser (I'd pay for SEARCH, for carps sake)
- Better documentation (not holding my breath here, thank holy carp for tutorials)
Other than that, everything else is gravy as far as I'm concerned. The shader system is decent, Poser content support is good, terrain and landscaping is sufficient unto the task.. it's not Lightwave or Maya or SoftImage, but I'm not forking over $1100+, either! :bug:
All in all I have more compliments than complaints, and with Digital Cervers Guild and Inagoni and Fenric, there are some plugins that cover a lot of things that aren't there "out of the box". :coolsmile:
Yeah. Neither is Optitex. Your point?
Are you sure?
[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zt_j_TvITD8[/video]
gimped damn forum.
Ah! Yes, that is a devilishly tricky thing to get right.
Absolutely! Again, SQL Server spoiled me. That should be the model for correct behaviour in my opinion. Heck, SQL Server won't even start up if it cannot write to its errorlog file!
9 pages of fluff and no closer to an answer.
what did you expect !
Actually 4 days closer to an answer. :coolgrin:
the answer is 42
what did you expect !
True.
Want me to tell you what the announcement is? It would be a guess, but not far from right.
Yeah. Neither is Optitex. Your point?
Are you sure?
[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zt_j_TvITD8[/video]
gimped damn forum.
What am I looking at? why is her clothing falling off?
Why do cloth and hair sims always look so weird? Just stop doing these bad sims people! Going to elaborate lengths to "prove" something works, even though it looks terrible... I don't understand. A sheath dress like that would be less distracting as a parented figure, and it would stay on... I'm sorry, I know this is a rant, but WHY WHY WHY are people demanding features that look goofy? There is no gee whiz factor just because something is waving or wriggling or dumping to the bottom of the frame due to hitting the sim button... Just go WITHOUT the sim 99% of the time it looks better....
99% of comedy is knowing when NOT to talk. 99% of art is knowing when to stop.... Not everything needs to be simmed! Augh! I'm freaking out! Someone slap me I'm hysterical....I'm completely anti sim this morning... ACK! Dynamics - it's all a lie!
I think well made conforming clothing with the adequate wrinkles and folds can look pretty good in an animation even though it's not dynamic and you can always make tweaks to help sell the realism since most conforming clothing comes with various morphs and there's always the magnet tool. If you look at frames of real movies, you don't see that much cloth movement and what movement there is could be more easily and believably be manually animated. And real hair usually doesn't move much thanks to hair product and/or lack of wind. I saw a video that someone did in Poser where they ran a hair prop through the cloth room and it looked and moved more realistically than any program's dynamic hair.
I think we spend too much time sometimes trying to play God.
my Optitex .duf scenes from DS4.5open in Carrara with animated frozen sims.
I realize many are not so fortunate
most Poser7 sims after running dyntomorphs work too.
but actually, I do not use or need a lot of flowy cloth, animated morph targets look just as good often and you can create those from Carrara softbody bullet too,
just pose your figure with the dress conformed,
go into the vertex room and move it to roughly fit the pose using softselect ie a seated figure
export the garment as an obj with morphs and skinning enabled
import the obj, using bullet on it and figure, run a sofftbody sim with a chair underneath and the figure drop onto it with the cloth around it
export the last frame
import it as a morph target for the original.
with fenrics obj exporter one may even be able to do a series of drapes
There's a good idea!
Actually 4 days closer to an answer. :coolgrin:
C'mon spill the beans! :)
lol, I actually have not tried it using Carrara bullet, only Poser cloth!
and I cheat and save the cr2 as a morphing variation of the dress!
but same principle
you can (the horror), also add it as a morph target in Daz studio! and save the pose!
both Poser and DS are cool Carrara plugins!
C'mon spill the beans! :)
Sorry, Forum Team don't get any more information than Forum Members, it just stands to reason that we are 4 days nearer than we were 4 days ago. :roll:
Actually 4 days closer to an answer. :coolgrin:
Only if the announce date isn't February 29th! :bug: :snake: %-P
I had a feeling that's what you meant. :)
Patience my friends...let's wait until March before firing up the wild, unfounded speculation and conspiracy theories!
Holly, that would have looked much better if I could have redone the dynamic sim in studio to sent to carrara. But DAZ killed that and has no intention of fixing it; as far as I can tell.
And the dress didn't fall off, the shoulder strap slipped down, which is what I would expect.
But that was basically a decent render of a rough draft which I was never able to complete. I was just getting it to work decent when DAZ killed collada. I keep getting told that DUF will move studio dynamics to carrara, but it's lucky to get a clothed figure from studio to carrara, let alone animation or dynamics.
"Patience my friends…let’s wait until March before firing up the wild, unfounded speculation and conspiracy theories!"
I don't have to wait, I could tell you now, but the post would just get pulled so no reason to. As I said it would be an assumptive guess, but probably right. I only see 3 possible scenarios. And the one that isn't bad is indifferent.
I had a feeling that's what you meant. :)
Patience my friends...let's wait until March before firing up the wild, unfounded speculation and conspiracy theories!
But.. but.. I'm sure Carrara has been sold off to the Men in Black that are at Area 51 with the space aliens, the ones working with the shadow world government and the Illuminati! :bug: :gulp: %-P
Here's hoping it's good news... :cheese:
My patience ran out the end of September.
Yeah, I'm not claiming I have had any success, or gotten as far along as you...
But I don't understand why you think Studio doing the sim and sending to Carrara is such a great step above MarvelousDesigner doing the sim and sending to Carrara... That's still not "inside" Carrara....
Or doing the sim in Poser for that matter....
Yeah, I'm not claiming I have had any success, or gotten as far along as you...
But I don't understand why you think Studio doing the sim and sending to Carrara is such a great step above MarvelousDesigner doing the sim and sending to Carrara... That's still not "inside" Carrara....
Or doing the sim in Poser for that matter....
One and only one reason $
And yes, I would much rather do poser like dynamic clothing in carrara, but I don't see that ever happening. I have to work with the tools available.
HI Stan :)
Have you tried using DS 4.5 to simulate the optitex cloth, then freeze it (or whatever you do to make it an animation), and then save that animation as a DUF file.
Then load that into the beta of C8.5
Also,... If there was a version of Daz Studio, and Carrara which you were happy with, and could use to get dynamic clothing into carrara,. then why not re install those programs, and use them just for that purpose, or until the issues with dynamic cloth between Carrara and DS are resolved.
Andy :)
That's why I always beat the, "it's a beta," drum. I also never rush out and get the latest and greatest version of a software I'm relying on until I have a chance to read about it, and evaluate how it fits my needs, what the bugs are, how it effects other software in my pipeline, etc,. If I do decide to upgrade I always try and do a separate install if the installer/updater allows it. Heck, I still have C5 on my machine and Bryce 5.
One and only one reason $
And yes, I would much rather do poser like dynamic clothing in carrara, but I don't see that ever happening. I have to work with the tools available.
Poser 8 is $19.25 on Amazon and Poser 9 about $50 more. You can clothify lots of things besides what is available that's dynamic and use the free python plugin to export the animation to Carrara.
Mostly on-topic, but I figured people here in this thread would know...
Is there a list / link somewhere to the main plug-in vendors for Carrara?
Thank you... :red: then I should be updating it more...
I wish I could quit my job and just do Carrara stuff all day long...
Believe me I have tried both. Quite a few times. I have the same problem with DUF now as I had when collada got updated and broke it. I tried to roleback/reinstall but it didn't fix it. My only chance now is for carrara to get dynamic with it's clothing, but I think I stand a better chance of learning Blender.