Animate backgrounds

laynemoore

In Carrara, is it possible to animate the preset backgrounds to make them look alive?

WendyLuvsCatz

do you mean the preset scenes or loading a texture map in backdrop?
you can load an uncompressed avi or preferably an image series (not gif) in the scene backdrop or in any texture map for that matter for animated textures.
For preset scenes, go into the sky editor and animate clouds etc changing parameters of choice ie cover, density from the first and final frames.
Also the completion parameter slider should be zero at beginning and the other end at the end.
and a wind speed set.
Trees can have rustle and wind added in their model settings too.
for more details click on the carrara manual link in the forum sticky.

Dartanbeck

wendy♥catz said:

do you mean the preset scenes or loading a texture map in backdrop?
you can load an uncompressed avi or preferably an image series (not gif) in the scene backdrop or in any texture map for that matter for animated textures.
For preset scenes, go into the sky editor and animate clouds etc changing parameters of choice ie cover, density from the first and final frames.
Also the completion parameter slider should be zero at beginning and the other end at the end.
and a wind speed set.
Trees can have rustle and wind added in their model settings too.
for more details click on the carrara manual link in the forum sticky.

...and there you have it. Great answer. Yeah, pretty much everything in Carrara has some sort of animation setting for it.