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Carrara 8.1 and 8.5 on the same P.C.?

Box8068_31c338ee4bBox8068_31c338ee4b Posts: 292
edited February 2014 in Carrara Discussion

Hello
I am a happy user of Carrara 8.1 running on a i7 P.C.
With this sale I'm considering purchasing 8.5 Honestly the main reason I'm considering the upgrade to to get the transport commands so I could use my shuttle pro when animating. ( A feature I requested )
I don't use Genesis, just models I build in Carrara. I am a little nervous about switching.
For a long time I had Carrara 6 and 8 on the same machine.
2 questions
will they live on the same machine?
I use both 32 and 64 bit 8.1 because I prefer to render in the 32 bit where I still get Quicktime animation codec.
( I know I can use Sequenced PNG but I really like the quality and workflow of QT animation)
Will 8.5 Carrara files open in 8.1?
Thanks
Brad

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Comments

  • wetcircuitwetcircuit Posts: 0
    edited December 1969

    Yes, the release version of 8.5 has it's own preferences file. You will (I believe) need to reconnect all your browser folders and runtimes.

    I think some of the plugins must be updated (Mimic MUST be updated) but others work for both 8/8.5

    One annoying thing is all image textures get changed to Fast Mip Map. There are no controls for this feature and I do not know how it is suppose to function. I don't think anyone did an analysis to know under what conditions Fast Mip Map is better than gausian or Sampling.... Fenric made a plugin that fixes all your shaders at once.

    I render to QT Animation in Mac 64bit without issue.

  • Box8068_31c338ee4bBox8068_31c338ee4b Posts: 292
    edited December 1969

    Hmm
    Sounds like you are running Mac, I forgot to mention my fast render machine is a P.C. ;(
    I do have a mac but she is only a Intel core Duo.
    Brad

  • DustRiderDustRider Posts: 2,739
    edited December 1969

    I'm using Win7 64bit, and have 8.1 and 8.5 both installed.

  • DiomedeDiomede Posts: 15,165
    edited December 1969

    I also am using Win7 64bit, and have 8.1 and 8.5 both installed.

  • Box8068_31c338ee4bBox8068_31c338ee4b Posts: 292
    edited February 2014

    Thanks Everybody!
    I purchased it. Holly I assume the proper Fenric Plug In is Multi Shader Editor?
    Thanks
    8068

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  • FenricFenric Posts: 351
    edited December 1969

    It's the Advanced Shader Tweaker.

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