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thinkin, major carrara play time weekend. holidays over means relax time.
look under synthesizer
Atmos
Sweet!
Cool. Thanks!
Hoping to get a bunch done this weekend myself. Hello Carrara! :)
chores to finish before i can sit to play. ... or can do chores tomorrow
Monday. Put the chores off 'till Monday
total carrara immersion this weekend!!
one last cuppa tnite, waking up early to start tomorrow.
no i7 yet, 2 cores, i'll need to start earlier >.<
explosion modifiers ... was thinkin like how on Buffy she'd stake a vampire they'd explode into dust, even their clothes.
I sometimes combine the object modifier "explode" with the object effect "blur" and a shader that has a spotty alpha or transparency to create smoke. Trying to use clouds as smoke is difficult for me to manipulate, but I know lots of other people get better results that way.
teee heee esploded the rybolt mechanical
a little too frenetic though. lol
great idea the spotty alpha thanks for that !
combining modifiers?
strokes my imaginary van klondike beard/mustach
A couple of pages back it was asked thoughts about Genesis 3 support for Carrara. Personally I am of the mindset that we have V4 M4, Genesis, Genesis 2, do we really need Genesis 3? Also if they are going to add Daz Connect to that mix, I would much rather they didn't then mess up Carrara with that junk. I haven't bought a thing for Genesis 3, and I doubt I will at this point. I don't see the need for it. To me it feels like Daz made Genesis 3 to create a new category of content (that is largely incompatible with everything else) to buy nothing more. It doesn't bring anything new to the table that I see. Perhaps I am wrong....
What I would much rather see is bugs fixed and new features we have asked for.
Combining modifiers can be a lot of fun and can create some really odd and interesting shapes. I made these images a while ago by just applying various modifiers in different orders to a couple basic shapes I made in the vertex modeler - I didn't have any goal in mind, I just kept playing with them until I got some cool looking results:
All six final shapes started out from the same vertex object which was just three tall slender cylinders (see attached screenshot).
interesting shapes. looks suspiciously like chocolate,
i do have a goal in mind. need special effects for scifi weapons and wormholes.
feels so natural to say fire phasers or punch it chewey. 'fire lasers' doesn't have oomph
LOL - maybe you're just hungry?
The interesting thing is that the textures I used were thre different all procedural metals, but when the modifiers were added and cranked up even the procedural textures streched crazily, so one now looks like glass, one kind of like colored glass and one like, as you said, chocolate. At one point I was going to export them to OBJ (which permanently applies the modifiers) then import them back to Carrara and try unwrapping them to add the textures back on without distortion, but doing that resulted in insanely dense meshes that would have been a nightmare to unwrap. Maybe I'll give it another shot now that I'm a little better at unwrapping.
wanted to try replicate on the infinite plane instead of stretching it to fit 300ft
worked out pretty good me thinks, 25 test renders later, lol
thinkin - where to start to make a chewing gum with attitude face animation for Aiko3 or Aiko5
tootsie pops lol
When using the infinite plane, you can easily adjust the size of the tiling texture, by adjusting the size of the plane displayed in the Assembly room view. If it is pixelated, try making the plane smaller for instance.
HI misty,. :)
When you add an "infinite plane" to the scene,. it looks like it;'s just a plane, with visible edges and you can see the motion panel says it's 64ft or whatever,.
But it's not.
It's infinite,. so,. if you use the camera tool to render an area of your scene, the infinite plane will be visible as fas as you can see,.it gets tiled repeatedly as if it was replicated.
so there's no advantage to adding an Infinite plane to a replicator,. it's already rendeibg to infinity,.
even if you placed you camera 1 mile up in the air, and did an area render,. you'd see the infinite plane exxtended to meet the horizon / sky
Carrara's realistic sky editor also has a "Show ground" option which works in a simillar way,. it's just infinite.
without the replicate would render the same? (doh)
never needed to stretch it either? double-doh
feels like i learned a lot this week.
tee hee. autogrid replicated the spinning sphere. turned on seamless.
That's pretty cool looking. I wonder if you stacked them vertically too, would you get sort of a kaleidoscope effect?
it has tiling for the 3 axiseez
thinkin, a target helper that's a scene compass, pointers to east, west, front back, etc. hard to tell which direction the hot point is pointing
thinkin, how to get the cloud layers to interact in scene. sky, not realistic sky.
testing theory if max altitude is 100 inches, then cloud layer altitude of 40% is prolly 40 inches , dunno
wanted to show the ship reaching cruising altitude above the clouds
was tryin to lower the clouds altitude with the ship in frame.
it works like magic, thank so much for this tip!!
focussing on the next 3 things.
animating cloud layers in realistic sky
m4 displacement map setup for carrara displacement
put hair and cape on Aiko3 make em flutter in a breeze