I was rendering a completely new scene in poser, and at the same time I was rendering a different scene in carrara, well in the poser window on my mac, the carrara render started appearing as if it was in poser itself. I quickly cancelled the poser render because I was scared my puter was about to crash. Love esther ps I used to render in vue and poser hapilly at the same time with no such things occuring

I had this happen with Carrara when using explorer. I think it was the result of diminished system resources, causing the render to seep through the explorer window after I switched from my render. After reading what I have written I cant even understand it; just ignore me would be your best bet lol.

Sounds like an anomally. As stated your pc was probably maxed and then some. You will get illusions like this.I don't recommend running two seperate rendering programs at the same time.

There's no advantage in rendering two images at once as rendering uses a great deal of system resources and rendering the two together would take just as long, perhaps longer, as rendering one after the other. If you plan to render a number of scenes out of Carrara, take a look at the batch render function - it is very useful.

I suspect it may have something to do with the fact that Carrara takes over the display -- it doesn't use Mac's or Windows' standard display. I find that even when I minimize Carrara if I close another window (or minimize it just to see my desktop), Carrara jumps to the forefront. It's a nice interface, but it does get a little pushy, in my opinion.... - Dex

If your hard drive light was steady on, you need more RAM installed. When I render from two apps, I don't tough the machine for awhile. Otherwise, it's confusing to have part of one app overlay another while switching back and forth.

The main thing is it isn't weird...it's quite common when you are zapping those kind of resources. The bad thing is if you do have a crash in one w/ the other one going you are taking a bigger chance on corrupting or locking up your software or ruining your other render.There really is no benefit. The pc simply doesn't have enough resources threads or otherwise for there to be a reason to really do it.It doesn't speed anything up.If you could actually queue it up more intelligently it might have some benefit, but they aren't designed that way now.

it looked weird though to see the carrara scene rendering as if it was a poser pic - right in the render window, love esther

the advantage of doing 2 things at once is that i might be rendering in carrara but working on a pose in poser and checking how the pose looks by rendering, then i might be going to lunch and leave the rendering to finish etc so if i have to go t o lunch then it doesn't bother me if the rendering has slowed, but i have 5 gig of ram and a G5 dual puter (i know poser only uses one of the processors) and was hoping that would enable me to do lots at once - usually i can on the mac love esther