Free Software that Makes Life Easier

WendyLuvsCatz · September 2022

ed3D said:

And Then , how about if a game is Free - could it be remarked on here -

Or " is it Not for Games " & thanx

pretty sure I mentioned some waaaay back in the thread

ed3D · September 2022

WendyLuvsCatz said:

ed3D said:

And Then , how about if a game is Free - could it be remarked on here -

Or " is it Not for Games " & thanx

pretty sure I mentioned some waaaay back in the thread

Alright then , saw where the Sims 4 base game _ will be Free after the middle of Octoeber - & Thanx

WendyLuvsCatz · October 2022

huge heavy set

been trying all day to import it into Carrara

at 100% now hours later but hanging

DAZ studio imports it untextured which while better not much so given the number of textures

Crios · October 2022

WendyLuvsCatz said:

huge heavy set

been trying all day to import it into Carrara

at 100% now hours later but hanging

DAZ studio imports it untextured which while better not much so given the number of textures

First free kitbash kit that i've purchased, are almost simply to retexture, but this https://kitbash3d.com/products/mini-kit-neo-city?_pos=1&_psq=neo+city&_ss=e&_v=1.0 is impossible to add surface in DAZ, almost for me.

I don't know how come out this Minerva this time. I hope are comung back to old surfaces models.

WendyLuvsCatz · October 2022

Crios said:

WendyLuvsCatz said:

huge heavy set

been trying all day to import it into Carrara

at 100% now hours later but hanging

DAZ studio imports it untextured which while better not much so given the number of textures

First free kitbash kit that i've purchased, are almost simply to retexture, but this https://kitbash3d.com/products/mini-kit-neo-city?_pos=1&_psq=neo+city&_ss=e&_v=1.0 is impossible to add surface in DAZ, almost for me.

I don't know how come out this Minerva this time. I hope are comung back to old surfaces models.

well Neocity imports into Carrara just fine and that is how I broke it up and exported obj's for DAZ studio if I recall but I also could have used Blender

Khoe · October 2022

Crios said:

WendyLuvsCatz said:

huge heavy set

been trying all day to import it into Carrara

at 100% now hours later but hanging

DAZ studio imports it untextured which while better not much so given the number of textures

First free kitbash kit that i've purchased, are almost simply to retexture, but this https://kitbash3d.com/products/mini-kit-neo-city?_pos=1&_psq=neo+city&_ss=e&_v=1.0 is impossible to add surface in DAZ, almost for me.

I don't know how come out this Minerva this time. I hope are comung back to old surfaces models.

I imported the set Minerva (FBX) into Blender then the individual objs are exported again, now I can import them into Daz studio or into Carrara. It takes some work but it works. :)

WendyLuvsCatz · October 2022

The Blend file froze up my PC and eventually crashed Blender

my Win7 because my Win10 is busy rendering

I ran out of RAM

FirePro9 · October 2022

DreamFusion, a text-to-3D ai based app from Google Research.

https://dreamfusion3d.github.io/

It does not appear to be avialable yet, but we can hope.

The math behind it is way beyond me but I think the app basically does what other text-to-2D apps are doing but then uses photo data to further estimate depth data.

REIVAX · October 2022

hello all

if you want test Dreamfusion.you can use colab from google

https://github.com/ashawkey/stable-dreamfusion

Chris Fox Art · October 2022

i'm sure it was already mentioned but if not, i'll do it again.
Blender! One of the best free 3D Softwares that makes life/modeling much easier.

Blender 2.9 also came with a Daz to Blender Option for morphs, rigging, posing and so.
I've got blender for a long time on my PC now with different versions but never really got time to take a deeper look at it but i have to say, modeling with Blender (character modeling for example) seems to be much easier here.
I didn't say that it's not possible within Carrara as i've also tested Character modeling here but with blender the tools seem to be better for this.
Here for example my first attempt in Blender to model a head (not finished yet) but this was very fast just with blenders Grab/move tool. (first it was just the cube, than added smoothing and than get it in shape which also can be done in Carrara).

WendyLuvsCatz · October 2022

I eventually got that KB3D set to load on my other computer with 32GB of RAM

it needed 20GB of RAM

https://www.facebook.com/wendy5/posts/pfbid0AJK43NEJReuFB9L4TZeSWfFMi6VMAmh4jV95SexgXJs2MLp67SkTZu6MCrhJTuU8l

an Octane Render Video

(too noisy IMO need to copy files to my other PC with better CPU for Carrara native)

WendyLuvsCatz · October 2022

video

Family home, think glow incorrectly assigned

ed3D · December 2022

And another about useing DaVinci Resolve

Particle Illusion Standalone & DaVinci Resolve
_ very cool video _ and explains pretty good about this -
well , worth watching

Particle Illusion Standalone ( Free one )

www.youtube.com/watch?v=dcQ137yQlbc

Dartanbeck · December 2022

Yep. That's my workflow.

Where he's making footage with Particle IIlusion, I'm doing that plus with Iray and Carrara. The backplate footage that he uses when he goes into DaVinci Resolve for me would be an animation rendered in Carrara or Iray.

Iray Passes

Rosie and Car
Cyberpunk Alley

VFX

Carrara Volumetrics VFX
Rotoscoped Mask in Fusion
DOF in Fusion

Diomede · December 2022

UVMapping came up in another thread, but this free add-on to Blender's UVMapping should go here as well. The add-on is called text tools, and it is #5 in the linked video.