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Yeah! In my basket now...
Totes. And Howie's other stuff is on sale too (50% off for PC+, or stacking discounts else) Got to be worth a few missed bill payments for! :coolgrin:
Me, too. A very nice expansion from Howie's (mostly) landscape-only products for Carrara (which are very nice, I should add). Medieval, Carrara, Howie - perfect combination for my current Medieval animation WIP. No hours of fiddling with textures and lights in a Poser product.
Okay, daft question, but... where it it?
Install manager says it's installed in Presets/Scenes along with Country lane 2 and Yule Cottage. But none of them appear to be accessible from within Carrara.
Word Gardens Japan, Stoney Creek and Secret Lake *do* show up in the Open Presets dialog. But there's no sign of the new scenery, and there's no "Scenes" submenu under Presets.
This is C8.5 Pro, Mac. Any clue?
(I have a similar problem not being able to access some of Ringo's hair shaders, which is still unresolved)
Aaargh. You have to pull up the entire install location in DIM. For whatever reason, something is creating extra content install locations for Carrara files. The Dim is probably just showing you the last 3-4 subfolders. Look at the whole tree. Check to see if it created a new core install location. Very annoying. I've noted it in the Carrara issues sticky and fixmypcmike responded. He seems to think that DIM doesn't create these new install locations, but I know we are not doing it ourselves. I wonder if it has something to do with how vendors create their products, but it seems to me that Daz would have the last say on standardizing that.
Edit: wherever it installed it, you can add the folder with the icon in the upper right in the browser tray.
Thanks Diomede. I had a look at the installed files list for one of the scenes that DOES show up. It seems that the .car files are located in
/Scenes
But the new stuff that doesn't show up, is installed in
/Presets/Scenes
There's nothing else in that folder, other than the "missing" scenery.
(all these are inside the Carrara.app "file" - full path Carrara.app/Contents/MacOS/Scenes)
Copying the scenery folders from /Presets/Scenes to /Scenes does not make them appear.
Has anybody tried/used this set in Carrara 8.5.??
Does the viewport respond well or is it laggy.??
Cheers for answers,
S.K.
Just a quick out of the box render with some props added..
Windows 8.1 64
Carrara 8.5 Pro
No probs so far ;-)
Excellent,
Thank you,
Into the Cart it goes then....Kind of fitting considering your image..Lol..
Cheers,
S.K.
lol.. yep
I just had a wiz around the streets... no lag at all on my PC.. very nice product you will like it I'm sure
thanks Howie,looks grande
I rendered a quick video had to lower a lot of settings to do in 12 hours but still used skylight just no indirect lighting and accuracy way down.
I will definately use this with simple lighting in animations I can see
Wendy - thanks for the trip around this set, it makes it clear how detailed and yet extensive it is!
Wendy, if you render a single frame, and save the irradince map, you can then use that saved map when rendering your animation. It will make the light calculations near instantaneous. As long as you don't change the lighting or have an animated object, the lighting will stay accurate no matter how you animate the camera. You can even turn up the lighting accuracy and still get fast light calculations.
Shaders that use SSS, Translucency, etc, will still slow down the render, as will soft shadows etc.
Wow! Nice set, Howie! Thanks for the walk-through, Wendy! ;)
you can export it as an obj for Daz studio too
if one wanted to that is
Very nice. I'm a sucker for realistic and this model has it in spades.
Wendy - did you need to delete certain features to do this? I'm quite surprised that it came across so complete.
Thanks for the tour, Wendy. It just goes on and on...and the details are amazing.... the window reflections are cool, too!
:) Silene
Wendy - did you need to delete certain features to do this? I'm quite surprised that it came across so complete.
I did not say you could render it easily or even navigate,
shaders do not come across either even using baker
but it was exported as is
...just saw this. Wishlsited until I can scare up some funds.
Really nice detail.
Wondering if this might be the first in a series of historic European town sets? Would love to see something like Dubrovnik, Edinburgh, the Backstreets of Paris, etc.
oh the silly things I do
got the complete scene into iClone 5 untextured section by section
now reapplying textures one by one in the app,
..........could take a while
I am working on a Daz Studio version of this scene, no current estimate of completion though. I am using it as my learning Daz Studio project so a lot of trial and error.
Things that have surprised me - Studio actually has a very powerful (but not easy to find tutorials or examples) shader system hidden away in the "Shader Mixer". Maybe even more powerful and flexible than Carrara's. Also, it seems to treat bump/normal map/displacement all the same. I don't know what magic it is using but the bump channel actually does displace geometry to some extent and with no discernible slowdown in rendering or memory usage.
your set bogs down DS pretty much on my PC but oddly iClone5 is coping
although I had to import it in sections (streets)
just the texture load the issue, I have to add them all referenced externally from my carrara folder,
doing so mainly for animation reasons, have my Octoberfest G2F ready with her beer jugs
I am not sure Youtube is ready for me singing "Mein hut der hat drei ecken" yet :lol:
Yeah I'm finding that Studio is having trouble handling a large complex scene - however as I have built the scene in sections it is easy to hide the sections I'm not working on and everything speeds up again. I turn them all on again for render without issue. In fact rendering in Studio is very fast - the pic below only took 3 minutes to render. Carrara's viewport (at least in 8.1) can handle much more geometry/textures without becoming a slideshow when trying to navigate the scene.
Howie - it is interesting seeing your thoughts on DS as you are coming from a similar direction to me, knowing Carrara well but not having much experience of DS.
Still can't access the scene. Got a ticket out with Support, but all they said was 'we'll get back to you." That was a day ago. :(
in iClone
well main street only
any more was to much and only partially textured,
iclone uses GPU so very limited texture wise
For me I just don't find DAZ Studio interface to be very intuitive. Poser is much user friendly for me.
Support has finally come back to me and said there's a bug in the Mac installer, and they'll pass the details on to the devs.
The workaround they've suggested involves creating a short cut and placing it into Documents. They said don't try moving the actual files or it'll destabilise Carrara (which explains why I couldn't get that to work). I'll try it tomorrow, since it's 1:30 now, and my third late night in a row!