Hello

I have another question.    I would like to make an anaglyph 3d scene.  I wrote to an expert who also has some software and he was very helpful and he told me the following:

In order to get a 3D image, you need to render the scene from two cameras which are roughly as far apart as your eyes would be if viewing the scene. You want to render one animation from the left eye and then one from the right. This will leave you with a left video file and a right video file.

So how would I do this in Carrara.  I have created the animation in Poser and then import it and open it in Carrara and then am lost on how to set up the cameras.

Please advise and thank you.

Hope that some expert have the answer... but theres softwares out there that can do this too... I saw one this week, from Aballone (the makers of Face Shop):

http://www.abalonellc.com/stereomaster.html

Thank you GK..I tried the trial version of stereomaster and it didnt work and I contacted the author and he said the best it would do for me was to render two separate jpgs which would need to be made into stereo cards and placed in a special stereo card viewer..it cannot do the animation.

Hum this is bad... I saw others softwares out there to do this task but cant remember names... maybe a google search can help.

Attached Link: Stereoscopic Thread.

Now I don't have PS so I don't know it it does batching but if it does there is one solution and I can't remember if the anaglyph app does batching. You still need to render each side and combine the two. I have not tried if you can parent 2 cameras together to create a constant set up. I would think you would still have to render each camera single.

See if that thread helps you some.

Thanks Tashar59.

After re-reading your question. The simple answer to the cameras. Set one camera up render the animation but as image files and keep that in it's own folder. Move the camera a few degrees in the X trans and render again but save those frames in another folder.

It is really a simple trick. The hard part or should I say the time consuming part would be the converting each  frame/side to anaglyph, unless you want to spend a bunch of money. The rest would be easy. Any video editing software to put the single images to an .avi. Virtual Dub would do that and it's Free if you don't have one.

I still have not had a chance to install C6Pro on my new quad I just built or I would do some tests for you and show what I know. I need to re- DL C6 from Daz and get all the updated plugs before I can do anything Carrara right now.

I just have to much fun playing with my modo to get around installing anything else.

Tashar

Thanks that was the answer I needed.  The poserpro thread was for stereoscopic cards which require like a viewmaster and obviously wouldnt work with an avi..I will experiment on the renders..I think the software will batch convert and quicktime can convert to avi as does premiere.

Thank you.

Yes the the Poserpro thread was for stereoscopic. The last 2 posts of the thread are for anaglyph.

I had time to DL my Carrara last night and installed.  whoa, does Carrara's render engine fly on my new quad. I'll put together a quick .gif tonight and post it here. So have your glasses ready.

Thank you and I have several pairs of red blue or red cyan glasses.  I have a dual 2 core but am interested in getting a quad core with the new video cars..plus Carrara renders so much better especially photorealistically than poser...

Attached Link: test gif image 3D

Then there is finding some place to host it because the gif is to big for here including the galleries. So I'm not sure how it will look on that site. Could also be this old monitor I use for the net.

All in all it works. I used the cyan settings. Remember it was a quickie just to show it can be done.

Thats fantastic.  I will email all my poser scenes to you and you can take it from there...seriously thats very good.

I have two questions.

1.  How do you manage to move the camera a few degrees to the right or left..in Carrara I click on the track xy but the only I can find to move it is to drag the mouse and that always also moves it slightly up and down.

2.  What did you use to combine the images..what anglyph software?

Thanks.

OK, here is another tease. You need to click on the image to bet the full size.

Excellent .  Please advise me on the two questions I had asked as I am chomping at the bit to get started and also any ideas on how to make something "pop" out of the screen?

1. select your camera in the item tree on your left. You will then see the camera trans dials.
   The X trans is the one you move. Depending on your camera focal point on how much you move.
   Render your first image and name that whatever left. Type in the Xtrans about 0.06 in any directon.

If your camera is center. It is easier to move the Xtrans to 0.03 then render. Then move your camera to -0.03 to render the other side. That is a ruff number.

1. Then just run the two images through the Free app that I gave you the link for in my first post. It is in the very last post of that thread.

The .gif, I realized that .Gifs compress so that is why it does not look as good as the .avi I made. Better for toon renders though.

Oh and for that animation, I did it the hard way of rendering twice fo each side and then put each frame together one at a time. The good news was I only rendered 15 frames and used 13 of them in reverse order to get the smooth tansition of the .gif.

So post something for me to see or if you need any other question answered, just ask.

Okay so you used anaglyph maker which is pretty cool and very good for free.  Will make something and post...

Okay no progress here.

I have a carrara project open to render.  On the right I click the main camera.  So now I look under transform and see xyz across

Then down  I see:

Center
Hot Point
Orient
Rotation
scale
sizing
overall

Is there where I am supposed to be.  I have tried rendering and then going back and adding 0.06 each way but now am thinking of setting original to 0 and adding 0.03 each way.

Please advise which camera dial I should use.

Thank you.

Center X is the one you move.

Just render your scene and then move the Center X  0.06. The number may be more or less depending on your focal settings. I set my Camera focal at 120.

Okay will try that and advise..thank you.