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The clone brush can be very useful!
Stuck for location ideas? The iStreetView.com link that was posted earlier has a Random Street View button that can be anywhere in the world! Find one you like, download the panorama, adjust gamma and you have a ready made background scene - I'm becoming addicted! It seems like most locations it comes up with are really photogenic.
yes the Greenland one looks spectacular https://istreetview.com/F:-1Q-KKDiB_YU/WIzGzW3XOSI/AAAAAAAAANo/nmdcllvF83IsLwKkkyuRjBv52ioS5ahZQCLIB
OK.... where in the world am I.... an easy one I reckon
we'll have to start a new thread for all the where in the world am I renders
The flat directionless grey lighting that you tend to get from a JPG looks just right for that scene too!
Stezza - love the addition of the whale! (do I really have to name where it is?)
thanks Phil, nope you don't.. 3DAGE is still guessing
Looks like the Tyne Bridge to me . . . although it may have been relocated!
(BTW, I have flown over it in a little Piper aircraft, although it was a few years ago now!)
HitFilm Express 2017 (The free version of HitFilm 2017) has been released and its free, its a great video editer, compositer and VFX package. They highlighted it with downloadable tutorials for trhe new release
https://hitfilm.com/express/westworld-to-yuma?utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&utm_campaign=2017-05-23-hitfilm-launch-no-products&[email protected]
you can also access a ton of tutorials and previous project do alongs as well like portal etc.
(edited out short-term freebie from wrong thread... - moved it to https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/comment/2448681/#Comment_2448681)
I can add a handy tool for re-meshing objects:
http://igl.ethz.ch/projects/instant-meshes/
While Optitex-based dynamics are DS-centric, unmentionable dynamic creator scripts and this tool can be used to 'regularize' polygons in cloth meshes, allowing many older outfits (e.g. many of the older ones sold here at Daz3D) to become dynamic with some fiddling. These can then be draped and 'frozen' in DS-Dynamic Cloth tool, and exported to Carrara as animated drapes. I have and like VWD as well, but this can add to the toolkit and perhaps make certain tasks 'doable' for a specific task/goal.
FYI, this tool creates an entirely new mesh, so any UV-maps, rigging, etc. are gone in the resulting output. Of course it can then be edited, UVmapped, and rigged like any new mesh. If you've ever tried to re-size a zillion polygons manually, you'll really appreciate this little gem!
cheers,
--ms
Looks like you need to be on social media to get to the download link; I'm not.
Nope... :)
just ignore the pop-up and click the link at the top of the page!
I don't social either... and got it anyway! yay!
--ms
Not getting a pop-up as such - and every 'get . . . free' link I find takes me to the social media links page.
need to turn off Adblock too
hmm - ok, i get an uncloseable pop-up or page that says to 'share' with all those FB/Tw/... icons/links... I leave it open, ignore it... I think I used chrome.
While it's still open, I recall that a download link at the top of the background page (darkened?) was actually live, and was able to click it and start the download.
I can't reproduce it now, so it's from memory, but I was able to move that silly share popup out of the way (couldn't close it), and click on something else on the page to get the download started.
anyone else have any luck?
--ms
That was it - I had just disabled it for the one page. Now to get it home and see what it complains about when I install it on an off-line system. :-)
NASA space models
This might be a repeat, but just saw it in the freebies thread.
"Just stumbled across this site. It's a collection of various models that NASA has made available to the public, for 3d printing and other uses.
https://nasa3d.arc.nasa.gov/models
Usage guidelines are here:
https://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/guidelines/index.html
"
Interresting Diomède, but Carrara don't import .stl files...
How are yu doing?
In that example, I downloaded and imported the 3ds file of shuttle model 2.
The model formats vary on the NASA website. There may be a few that need another converter but many have 3ds or obj files.
I'll look deeply but there are a few terrains of the moon in .stl...
Do you know a good converter?
Thank you!
possibly here:
http://www.greentoken.de/onlineconv/
AccuTrans is fairly good, though its not free its very inexpensive. I wish it gave some control over smoothing normals though. STLs dont have smoothing info, so if you convert without modifying the normals, it may not look the way you expect.
Fortunately, Carrara gives you a choice to import as a Facet Mesh, and you can adjust the smoothing angle if the normals have not already been smoothed.
EDIT: Just wanted to add that a lot of STL models don't have good topology. There are long, spikey triangles that are prone to shading artifacts. Sometimes the model may actually look better without smoothing the normals, like a box. For something with curved surfaces where you want smooth shading, editing the model might be needed to eliminate the problems with the triangulation/topology.
there is Blender
Blender will definitely work, and you can smooth the normals. For a conversion it would be relatively painless.
I know it works as have used it to create stl for my 3D printer too.
this normal map creator might be good ?
http://charles.hollemeersch.net/njob/
see https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/comment/2512751/#Comment_2512751 for a brief rundown on destructions
Hitfilm Ignite Express 2017 -> https://hitfilm.com/ignite-express/
Couldn't resist Njob... gotta give it a try... thanks :)
pleasure =
plenty of things here - https://sites.google.com/site/mcasualsdazscripts/Home
not software for carrara but of interest anyways
Njob looks pretty good, like a poor man's Crazy Bump! And thanks for the link to MCasual - lots of useful scripts there, there are a couple that have already proved their worth! (I know they are free, I donated $10 to him immediately as they are so useful).