HU-Carrara 8.5 Pro Bargain of a lifetime
Charlie Judge
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Flashback special 'Today Only': Carrara 8.5 Pro for $47.88 (or if you own a previous version it shows up as $23.94 in your cart)
http://www.daz3d.com/carrara-software/carrara-8-5-pro
Charlie
Edited to add: Even if you don't use Carrara, the content (V5 and M5 Pro Bundles) may be worth the cost
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Save over 250 dollars. Count me in. Thanks for the heads up
Saw that, have the discount for owning 8.0 Pro... and yet, I still can't think of a good reason to buy it. Carrara's fallen so far behind the other programs in its class that it's no longer even funny and the modest number of add-ons and improvements for 8.5 really should have been a free upgrade to existing users. DAZ didn't even bother to upgrade the VIDEO demo linked on the 8.5 catalog page, which is still extolling the improvements in 8.0...
IMHO that's a heck of a deal! I upgraded to 8.5 Pro and I'm glad I got it, I prefer using Genesis/Genesis2 when possible. There are some Genesis/Genesis2 Items that don't work properly, or at all, but many do work well. For those that don't, I can use DS.
If your interested in putting DAZ figures in epic landscape scenes, take a look at the awesome scenes available from Howie Farkes (http://www.daz3d.com/howiefarkes). This is something that neither DS or Poser can handle, and Carrara does it very well.
Or try doing something like this (http://www.daz3d.com/gallery/#images/18392) image in either DS or Poser. Poser can't do it, because Firefly doesn't support caustics yet (the light highlights around the base of the crystal, and the light concentration on the figures face inside the crystal), and using 3Delight it would take .... days??? where in Carrara it took a little over 2 hours. This image has V4/G4 (the figure in the crystal) a Genesis (large figure), and the crystal which I modeled in Carrara. It was rendered using full raytracing and GI/IDL at near maximum settings.
For anyone interested in Carrara, read Dartanbeck's post here:
http://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/43633/ (in case you don't know - he REALLY loves Carrara)
If your still reading and interested in Carrara, here are a few more images I did in Carrara (or check my gallery at Rendo - the link is in my sig line).
http://www.daz3d.com/gallery/#images/12964
http://www.daz3d.com/gallery/#images/29801
http://www.daz3d.com/gallery/#images/29816
http://www.daz3d.com/gallery/#images/29802
I'm by no means a Carrara guru, more like an intermediate novice. For more images done in Carrara, check out the Carrara Gallery links thread here:
http://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/42201/
Oh, my! Your renders are amazing. Are you available for on-call assistance? LOL I picked up C 8.5 Pro and was just googling for information. I haven't even downloaded it yet... LOL
Oh, my! Your renders are amazing. Are you available for on-call assistance? LOL I picked up C 8.5 Pro and was just googling for information. I haven't even downloaded it yet... LOL
Wow, thanks :red:
While not exactly on call, I do check here, and the Carrara forums quite often. There's a lot of real helpful folks on the Carrara forum. There is also some really good video training available too (http://www.daz3d.com/infinite-skills-inc-), and they go on sale 2-3 times a year, sometimes up to 50% off. Carrara is a bit more complex than Poser or DS, but still pretty easy to learn.
Welcome aboard!!
Wow, thanks :red:
While not exactly on call, I do check here, and the Carrara forums quite often. There's a lot of real helpful folks on the Carrara forum. There is also some really good video training available too (http://www.daz3d.com/infinite-skills-inc-), and they go on sale 2-3 times a year, sometimes up to 50% off. Carrara is a bit more complex than Poser or DS, but still pretty easy to learn.
Welcome aboard!!
You're welcome. I didn't mean to embarrass you. I was just a bit of a silly mood. I've been curious about the full version of Carrara for a while and was very amped up at being able to afford it between the promo price, my monthly PC coupon, and a gift certificate balance. Your pics are really wonderful. Carrara doesn't seem to get a lot of attention, so it was nice to see some great pics in the galleries.
Carrara is great because not only do you have the freedom of using pre-made content, such as what is sold here, you have the tools to alter it or create your own from scratch. Then, as Dustrider mentions, the ability to do scenes in an epic scale is hard to beat.
Here's my gallery link:
http://www.daz3d.com/gallery/#galleries/6332/
Here's a couple that haven't found their way into it yet:
lol
I can understand your excitement, I still remember how excited I was when I ordered my upgrade to Carrara 3 - it was the first Carrara with full GI rendering. I was using Carrara to render Poser content before it got firefly (export to obj from Poser and import/re-texture in Carrara to render)., and to do other projects.
Carrara can do a lot, but because it is more of a general 3D application, it's a bit more complex to learn than Poser or DS. Carrara is my favorite app, but I use both Poser and DS too, they all have their strengths and weaknesses. There is also less pre-made content designed just for Carrara, however most Poser (pre P9) and DS content works in Carrara, but usually you will need to adjust the mats/shaders to get the best results.
I'm not sure why DAZ doesn't do more to promote Carrara, it's a great product for the price. With a plugin to Octane Render in development, and one available now for LuxRender (Luxus), Carrara has access to some top notch unbiased render engines in addition to it's internal render engine, which is extremely good. Add to that landscapes, a tree creator/editor, dynamic hair, an outstanding ocean/water "primitive" (i.e. instant realistic water), modeling, full raytracing, GI/IDL, caustics, instancing, bullet physics, animation, and a lot of great inexpensive plugins that extend/enhance Carrara's capabilities, Carrara is a fantastic general 3D tool for the hobbyist, and a great companion tool for Poser of DS.
Hope you enjoy Carrara as much as I have!
Really great renders. :cheese:
I'm excited and nervous. Adjusting materials doesn't really bother me, I suppose. I do that quite often with Poser, all though I'm far from being a shader node guru. LOL
I think what intrigued me about Carrara is it seems to do a bit of everything. I'm not a modeler, but I've watched a couple of Carrara modeling tutorials over at YouTube and looks pretty simple.
if you don't already have the valentina cms to use genesis in carrara, where can you get it these days?
does it come with the carrara d/l?
What's valentina cms?
Valentina is the database engine behind the DAZ Content Management System. It has been prone to corrupting the database, so there is a switch to the (apparently more stable) PostgreSQL database instead - which has the additional advantage of not needing to run all the time as a process but starting and stopping with DS or DIM.
Ah, I see. I only now just installed the DIM so I can get the Genesis content for Carrara installed without tears. I thought since I bought Carrara Pro the other day, and Genesis works in there, I might as well try it because I'm not a DSON-using Poser user. After I install that, I'll probably uninstall the DIM again. I'm a Poser user, not a Daz Studio user, and I prefer to manually install stuff for Poser. Thanks.
requesting clarification - the postogresql DOES or DOES-NOT work with Carrara in regard to genesis and genesis2?
If you use Carrara you would want to stick with Valentina for now anyway, Carrara doesn't (yet) support PostgreSQL.
Thanks. wasn't sure i missed a vital intell. can't keep up, :roll: