Digital Carvers' plugins

VIArts

Do you use Digital Carvers' plugins? I'm thinking about getting Anything Goos ton make my figures dirty/hideous and maybe TerrainTools to put cuts in a log as i animate it being chopped.

 

Any thoughts?

UnifiedBrain

I don't have any of them them yet, but have heard great comments.  A definite buy down the road.

You save quite a bit when you get a bundle instead of buying them one at a time.

Headwax

LightofHeaven said:

Do you use Digital Carvers' plugins? I'm thinking about getting Anything Goos ton make my figures dirty/hideous and maybe TerrainTools to put cuts in a log as i animate it being chopped.

 

Any thoughts?

I have anything goos - it's very good for dirtying up edges - i don't use it a lot because I am lazy

I have ToonPro - I use it a lot for getting line work without the base render - but I have discovered you can get the line work with the built in NPR renderer - but Toon Pro is alot easier .

Dont have any others sorry

 

UnifiedBrain

HW, I'm pretty sure that you have Shoestring Shaders.  Those fresnel effects are fantastic.

VIArts

Could you throw up a quicke orf Goos on a figure's face?

 

i only have toon pro and parchmsnt

Headwax

UnifiedBrain said:

HW, I'm pretty sure that you have Shoestring Shaders.  Those fresnel effects are fantastic.

Ah sorry yes!! I bought them from Shoestring itself -from Mark and then Eric took them over.

Yes Fresnel is good ,plus for animations there is a proximity shader so one object can effect another one's shader - eg induce a n alpha map for a cross section effect

 

many of them look super powerful but I havent found the time to play

 

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Jamy

Shader ops is very handy for making ghosts or X-rays

Jamy

exemple

3DAGE

You can currently make a "multilayer" shader in carrara,. and use that to add the effect of dirt (fractal noise) or an image,.. you can have several layers all blending together.

You could also create a Mixer of your texture map and a noise or texture map to apply a dirty grunge effect, and use a Blender to create areas of dirty/clean.

for the log chop,.. You can create an object and have it deform via morphs,. or replace it with a damaged version at a keyframe like a swap/replace ,. pickup/putdown effect.

here's an old example done in C6

I have some plugins from DCG, they work well,. ..if they didn't,.. they wouldn't sell :)

Check out Sparrowhawke3D's plugins ... great,. and free

I don't use plugins much,. i'm just as lazy as Headwax,. well maybe not that lazy :0

Baker and Fenrics BVH/PZ2 export,. I use those a lot for getting stuff out of carrara.

 

Try to experiment with what you have in front of you before you jump at buying all the plugins.

UnifiedBrain

Jamy said:

exemple

 

That car is awesome, Jamy.  But are you sure that it was done in Shader Ops?  It looks very much like the Fresnel effect in Shoestring Shaders.

Whatever, I want it. :)

VIArts

Man, this thread is dirty  lol And i zll looks coo

 

the proximity shaderr  head wax mentioned earlier piques my interest as well. it would be cool to see how it works

Jamy

UnifiedBrain said:

That car is awesome, Jamy.  But are you sure that it was done in Shader Ops?  It looks very much like the Fresnel effect in Shoestring Shaders.

Whatever, I want it. :)

Thank you for the compliment :-), it's really ShaderOps ... with a Fake Fresnel effect.

UnifiedBrain

Dang, I better start saving my money. :)

Thanks!

Mistara

fresnel

blurred reflections

carrara caustics