Forum: Carrara


Subject: V3 head in Carrara & RDS save problem?

Jaager opened this issue on Mar 04, 2003 ยท 36 posts


bijouchat posted Wed, 05 March 2003 at 11:36 AM

didn't have time to answer before fully, will now. the scaling in Carrara is just a value in properties menu. The mesh is not actually resized with the autoscaling import, just the group is resized in the assemble room. I know this, as I ran into HUGE troubles with Anything Grows and 3dpmr's fur coat, and discovered, I had to resize the fur coat object MESH, not just resize in the Assemble room's Properties menu... ended up rescaling the coat in Poser 2000x and exporting that coat obj rescaled so the fur modifier finally went on right. The reason the figure is stuck in the floor is because the autoposition is turned off - if you were to go to the properties dialog and turn her main group back to 100 percent, she'd be standing on the floor again, teeny tiny according to Poser scale, as all Poser meshes are very small. The Poser meshes are actually WAY too small for Carrara, I work with exported Poser scenes rescaled about 2100x larger for this reason - otherwise they simply will not render right in Carrara. Carrara has its strengths... I just don't think modeling and modifying Poser meshes is one of them... building and rendering scenes is what I love to do with Carrara. I think Amapi has Carrara beaten hands down in the modeling and morph department. (and probably why Carrara Studio comes with version 5.15) I just finally broke down and preordered Amapi 7 designer... I love Amapi 5 and didn't think that 6 was enough of an upgrade... 7 sure appears to be.