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Seriously cool work!
good onya dart
Okay, I've put up some rather lengthy videos...
Carrara EnvironKit - Woodlands: Getting Started introduces the full product in pretty full detail.
Carrara EnvironKit - Woodlands: Build a Scene: Palenque Ruins I guide you through as I build a new scene, starting with the Base Scene from the Realistic Sky presets, bring in Daz3d's Palenque Ruins, and build a woodland scene around it.
Hey, thanks for all the kind comments everyone!
hope you take this the right way .
the videos are good - but they take way to long to do what I would want .
so I just got your set and want to use it - not all the stuff behind what you did .
just a - quick start video - is what I want .
are there full scenes to load - if so lets do one .
I figured as much, but the videos are intended to go beyond the already included pdf.
I was planning to make more videos for this, so I'm glad for your response. I need that sort of input. So... down and dirty for one preset scene.
That's cool. Where I likely would have done a single video for a bunch of them, as I tend to ramble on and get carried away, as you can plainly tell. Thanks bigh!
Any of the promo images which do not include additional Daz3d content in them are what you get when you hit render, using the speedy default settings through the default camera, if that helps.
It's a bit difficult to show the whole thing because there are 42 scene presets, plus the bonus animated backdrop with motion camera scene. Like you say, short, to the point videos could help me illustrate that better, with appropriate links to help folks choose which they'd like to see.
I watch the instructional videos for Project Dogwaffle, and love the idea of just going in with the mic and capture running, and mess around, showing things. So I want to keep that sort of style for those, like me, whom like that sort of thing.
Looks cool---any update on the release date?
Thank you, and next month, I believe.
amazing images Dartanbeck :)
I'm eagerly awaiting this preset kit. This is a godsend. Wonder why it takes so long to be put on the market.
My apologies for the delays. I really wanted to give everything I could in this - without overdoing it and making a mess. Thus, the 42 presets:
30 using the Realistic Sky
12 using Background Map
Bonus: The "Walking in a Storm" animated setup with an animated backdrop. I don't count this when I give a preset count because backdrops are stuck at how they are filmed. Meaning that, now matter how you rotate the camera, the backdrop remains the same. This one is pretty cool, as it contains a motion camera that will loosely track the motion of a character in a walk cycle for up to three (or is it four?) seconds. The lighting is animated to backlight whatever you add to the scene every time lightning flashes.
This whole set is actually originally intended to be a huge tutorial set, illustrating how to build a scene from the ground up - which it can still fully facilitate. Watching the rather in-depth video (the first one linked to above) will help to show what all you have at your disposal, simply by installing the thing. Even if you never use actual woodlands scenes or the plants or nature blocks, you get some really well thought out and tested light rigs. The cloud rig is super-cool, I think... and the ease of building woodland type environments becomes so second nature, that one can surround any product or original creation with nature of many forms.
It took me a while to get the Woodland blocks icons the way I like them. I had to go through each preset many times and play with them - to take the burden off of the shoulders of the already over-busy Daz3d testers. I know that they have to rip it all apart, anyways - but the last thing you want to do is give them stuff that should have been fixed before they see it. So I tend to get a bit overly anal. That in combination with people dragging me away from Carrara during this time of year to beautify their properties just made my release much later than I had planned.
To help ease the burden of wait, I threw a really small price tag on it - and, so far, it's fine with Daz! They said they just love it!
So it is now in their very capable hands, and will be released soon - but with as much as I've included in the kit - it gives them a lot of real estate to test.
Sorry about the wait, though. That's my fault.
so email me a copy - then I can test it for you too ( smile )
No need for apologies, Dartanbeck. It is better for us to wait a little bit and get a top notch product.
Some great looking examples - I will look forward to the final product!
Here I just plunked in TheAntFarm's new "Shanty Town (Yaaay! I love this set!) to the Base Scene, cranked on some clouds and the ground fog, dropped in some deadwood and a big Woodland Block in the background. Nearly no tweaking involved.
This helps illustrate the part where I wanted to give folks a good setup to where they can just plunk in what they have, what they've made, or what they've just bought - so they have a bit of an instant setting rather than an empty scene. When I want to see my new purchases, I often open a default base, such as this, that I have saved to my browser for just such an occasion. You can use any of these base scenes to quickly set up such quick, default saves for your browser. It provides instant global atmosphere and lighting, highlight lighting for whatever it is you want to look at, and lightning fast default render settings - which the above image was rendered at. Then, if you want to add clouds or change the position of the sun or just make it really foggy - perhaps you want some water, or to be half in and half out of the water. Basically this makes it easy to create quick default base scenes for viewing your stuff in. But then it also works for creating a whole scene where this is the focal point - like many of the images throughout this thread.
I'm very pleased with how easy and fun it is to use.
well I was umming an arghing about buying shanty town, your cool render made up my mind :)
now I need to get some of your Eviron trees in there to "liven" it up,
The good news:
DAZ 3D has approved it and it will be hitting the store shelves!
The Bad News:
I had to season the grill before I could use it - so I had a cold supper. Leftovers from the fridge.
Ooh! What kind of grill? Mine is a horizontal barrel smoker which I couldn't use this weekend because of the friggin' weather.
Big Red Kamado Grill that my neighbor bought us for all of the gardening we've been doing for her over the years. I tell ya... this is THE nicest grill I've ever seen in my entire life! This is double steel with insulation between the layers and then powder-coated. But then there's a separate steel 'fire drum' inside, protecting the double-walled steel Acorn from being burnt out from years of hot coal use. Even the darned wheels are nice!
The thing came in a giant box and I got to build the thing from the ground up. The quality of this thing is found through and through. The grill grate is cast iron!
I have a Primo smoker and Grill, wonderful. It was payment for an illustration job I did a while ago. Must have cost and arm and a leg to send to Oz from Arizona.
Congrats on the news Dartanbeck :)
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I have a rusty Webber kettle, looks exactly like the one in the Carrara object browser!!
Great news on the Daz approval. I'm not really into grills though...reminds me of a piece of toilet graffiti:
"I Like Grils"
"Don't you mean Girls"?
"What about us Grils!"
Hey Phil... We are being summoned to fill the store with more Carrara goodness - perhaps on many different fronts. We should wrap our brains together on how to handle something like this: http://www.daz3d.com/forums/viewreply/360704/
Yes Please! More Carrara content needed!
I bought a tarted up Cadac the year before last and the last two summer have been a washout. Don't buy one if you want a bbq summer!
Good kit though....
http://www.cadac.uk.com/products/product.php?pid=258
:) Silene
I've got a couple of things in a state of semi-completeness, I really should devote some time to finishing them!
Silene, that CADAC is really neat! I could use one of those for when Rosie and I go on our outdoor shots! Oh... wait... our digital versions do that in Carrara...
Me too. We need to finish them as we start new ones. Carrara and its dedicated users need some love! :)Well the real Rosie and I could really put a CADAC to good use when we're out and about. I love to travel, and I love to eat! And my stir fry's are killer, due to my own sauce :)
You whipper snappers and your fancy schmancy toys. I have a grill too, it's a rock circle, with a rack on the top. :P
Those new ones can't be cheap with the price of metal these days lol.
well those rocks must be getting pretty expensive, what with the price of rocks these days :)
well Dartanbeck I have just started playing with this and I wanted to congratulate you on a superb achievement/
Magnificent, absolutely magnificent job you have done!
I'm still finding my way around at the moment, it's like wandering the hills and valleys of a wonderful new land :)
Thank you so much!!! :)
Ill post some renders when I have something worthy of the kit!
cheers