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Subject: Carrara 5 Pro demo, will not render p6 strand based hair with global lighting
you CAN render dynamic hair in Carrara. i just did a month of very heavy testing of C5P specifically about strand hair imported from Poser. Search my screen name and you will see the threads, they could save you a lot of effort and time. I never got dyamic hair into C5 through "Naitive", always thru "Transport." I played with shadow map lights, raytrace lights, and eventually skylight. It works. I don't know why you are crashing out. I am on PC, maybe its a Mac issue. :::::: Opera :::::
Hi OperaGuy, Thanks, It is likely a Mac Carrara issue. The Demo is 5.02 btw. I also use the Transposer import. Fine with strand based hair- except with Global lighting BTW: since I've the demo-there are no instructions. So I've been happily importing and rendering anyway-but I dont see where to import image.hdr's. Irradiance Map option does not seem to SEE xxx.hdr files.
In your Instance List you can click on Scene at the top of that list and, in the properties windows, change the backround to be an HDRI file. In your render settings, enable Skylight so that the HDRI lights your scene along with other lights you may be using.
Message edited on: 03/05/2006 20:24
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Hi NEW to Carrara. I cannot get it to render jessie's strand based hair with ANY global lighting selected- indirect and/or skylighting. I've tried standard res jessie with default maps, as well as hi res jessie. I've created new Pz3's in case of file corruption. Tried shutting off ray tracing options, etc. As soon as the render gets to the hair- boom! Down goes Carrara. It renders the body fine- but the hair- no. Although it sometimes will render a small portion. With OUT any global selections it renders the strand based hair just fine. Transmapped hair renders fine WITH all global selections. Does this happen constantly in the release version? BTW. I'm on a dual core G5 mac w 1.5 gigs of RAM, OSX 10.4.5 Mainly, I'm wondering if this is a demo issue- or a full version issue as well! Thanks! Eric Thinking about a purchase- but only if global works! I'm a fan of realistic lighting- HDRI by preference!