Forum: Carrara


Subject: V3 head in Carrara & RDS save problem?

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


VK posted Wed, 05 March 2003 at 6:15 PM

bijouchat, Yes, I forgot to mention, this is very important: When I import the figure obj in Poser, all obj import options are disabled. "Centered", "Place on floor", and "Percent of ... size" must be disabled, so that the generic size and position of the model is imported. The Poser props are exported as Wavefront obj from Poser (all export options disabled). Basically, you can't import a Poser prop library (pp2) or a Poser document (pz3) in Carrara. However, if the pp2 or the pz3 contains prop geometry (embedded geometry), then you can import the pp2 or pz3 in Carrara. Select "WaveFront" in the "Choose File Format" list (Carrara doesn't know that you're going to import obj data in the pp2 or pz3 file). Carrara imports the first embedded prop geometry found in the pp2 or pz3. The rest of the pp2/pz3 data is ignored. If you're on a Mac, you need to change the file type of the pp2 or pz3 to "TEXT", otherwise the files are not listed in the file import dialog. On a PC, the pp2 or pz3 maybe needs the ".obj" or ".txt" extension. Of course, this is a weird obj import method. Usually, you export the prop as Wavefront obj from Poser, then you import the Wavefront obj in Carrara. I don't have V3 (I have no V's :). How many vertices is she? Might be a memory problem. For example, a car file with a 120,000 polygon vertex model saves on my computer, if I allocate at least 300 MB RAM to Carrara. If I allocate less than 300 MB, Carrara crashes, when I try to save the same car file. Morph modelling needs less Carrara resources, because you usually import only one body part or a few parts of the figure.