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DRxDONDRxDON Posts: 0
edited December 1969 in Carrara Discussion

I have Carrera 8 and, believe it or not, have never used it for character posing or animation. I was mainly into trueSpace when I got it YEARS ago and then I got a tiring job that took away from my CG time. Now I want to get into character modeling and I got DS and downloaded some old free and inexpensive content. I looked in my Carrara's Content tab and it's completely blank. No characters, clothes, props,... NADA! There's not even any Options shown to import anything. When I set it up before I even think I remember seeing it install some figures and stuff too. I actually upgraded from C7 and there's nothing in that one's Content folder either. Please advise.
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  • NexySaloonNexySaloon Posts: 71
    edited December 1969

    See the bar that say Scenes Objects Shaders Clip Misc Artwork Content?
    To the right of it is a small black circle, left click, choose Add Runtime, and tell it where to find it.
    You can import things with upper left corner File> Import> tell it where to find x.
    Hope this helps! -Nexy

  • bighbigh Posts: 8,147
    edited December 1969

    DeCarlo said:
    See the bar that say Scenes Objects Shaders Clip Misc Artwork Content?
    To the right of it is a small black circle, left click, choose Add Runtime, and tell it where to find it.
    You can import things with upper left corner File> Import> tell it where to find x.
    Hope this helps! -Nexy

    if that not enough help - look in this thread -
    http://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/15970/

  • DRxDONDRxDON Posts: 0
    edited December 1969

    Nexy, The Add Runtime and AutoDetect Runtime options are greyed-out...

  • DRxDONDRxDON Posts: 0
    edited December 1969

    DRxDON said:
    Nexy, The Add Runtime and AutoDetect Runtime options are greyed-out...

    DUH! I didn't have the content tab clicked! ;-(

  • DRxDONDRxDON Posts: 0
    edited December 1969

    DRxDON said:
    DRxDON said:
    Nexy, The Add Runtime and AutoDetect Runtime options are greyed-out...

    DUH! I didn't have the content tab clicked! ;-(

    Where does DS store its Runtime material? I looked in the DS folder and Users/DAZ/Studio/Runtime folder and could find any "valid" Runtime Objects...

  • DRxDONDRxDON Posts: 0
    edited December 1969

    DRxDON said:
    DRxDON said:
    DRxDON said:
    Nexy, The Add Runtime and AutoDetect Runtime options are greyed-out...

    DUH! I didn't have the content tab clicked! ;-(

    Where does DS store its Runtime material? I looked in the DS folder and Users/DAZ/Studio/Runtime folder and could find any "valid" Runtime Objects...

    Oh yeah, I'm using Widows 7.

  • evilproducerevilproducer Posts: 9,050
    edited December 1969

    Are you using Carrara 8 or Carrara 8.5?

  • DRxDONDRxDON Posts: 0
    edited January 2014

    I have Carrara 8. What I really need to know, though... I think, is where does DS put its content runtime after it downloads and installs it.

    I have a question for ya, Evilproducer: how do you make your "torch fire" undulate like that? Are you animating the fall-off and/or the scale or rotation of the fire object... or something else? It looks really cool! :-)

    Thanks

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  • evilproducerevilproducer Posts: 9,050
    edited December 1969

    DRxDON said:
    I have Carrara 8. What I really need to know, though... I think, is where does DS put its content runtime after it downloads and installs it.

    I have a question for ya, Evilproducer: how do you make your "torch fire" undulate like that? Are you animating the fall-off and/or the scale or rotation of the fire object... or something else? It looks really cool! :-)

    Thanks

    I can't really answer directly about where D/S sticks its stuff as I don't use it. I do know that C8 used Collada to import D/S scenes, but as I recall, Carrara doesn't natively read D/S files like it does Poser files, so the D/S specific files won't show up in the Content Browser. C8.5 has some significant differences in how it integrates with D/S, but I have no personal knowledge or experience with it as I'm using C7.2 Pro for the foreseeable future.

    Thanks for the compliments on the torch fire. :) The fire is Carrara's fire primitive. You can animate it over time. It just takes a bit of testing to find the right balance of the various parameters. You can get some nice effects with it, but there are some caveats: It doesn't react to scene forces or physics, it doesn't have parameters to fake forces like wind.

    The video I posted uses three other elements to help sell it. I used a particle emitter to send up a few sparks, I used a bulb light near the base of the flame with a 3D light sphere to add an additional level of "heat", and I added an animated gel to the bulb to simulate the flickering on the wall. That is probably the crappiest part, as it was a quicko' hack. I also changed the brightness of the bulb at the end of the animation and used an oscillating tweener to vary the "flicker" over the course of the animation.

  • DUDUDUDU Posts: 1,945
    edited December 1969

    He Evil, I use since always the post production to create explosions, flames, smoke etc… but when I see the excellent quality of your torch, I would like more explanations to arrive at this result!
    Can one have a capture of screen of your adjustments in the particles?

  • DartanbeckDartanbeck Posts: 21,583
    edited December 1969

    DRxDON said:

    Where does DS store its Runtime material? I looked in the DS folder and Users/DAZ/Studio/Runtime folder and could find any "valid" Runtime Objects...

    Default installation by the DAZ Install manager:
    Documents > My DAZ 3D Library

    To add the runtime, select that folder (My DAZ 3D Library) to your content tab using the 'Add Runtime' command as mentioned earlier.

  • DartanbeckDartanbeck Posts: 21,583
    edited December 1969

    Note that, in Windows, it's public documents, not "My Documents"

  • evilproducerevilproducer Posts: 9,050
    edited December 1969

    DUDU_00001 said:
    He Evil, I use since always the post production to create explosions, flames, smoke etc… but when I see the excellent quality of your torch, I would like more explanations to arrive at this result!
    Can one have a capture of screen of your adjustments in the particles?

    If I can find the original scene file! If not, I may have some time to recreate it. I'll post it in a different thread so as not to derail this one.

  • DRxDONDRxDON Posts: 0
    edited December 1969

    Thanks, Dartanbeck.

    Evil, I'd like to see that too. If you post it, please leave a message here. I tried the fire and all I get is a rather staid looking flame with streaming flames going up vertically, whereas yours looks more real and "undulating". Did you animate any of the other parameters besides the 'completion' one?
    Thanks

  • evilproducerevilproducer Posts: 9,050
    edited December 1969

    I've posted a thread about the torch fire. Here's the link:
    http://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/35229/

    Hopefully you'll find it useful!

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