Forum: Carrara


Subject: What I did on Christmas

Kixum opened this issue on Dec 25, 2008 · 22 posts


Kixum posted Sat, 27 December 2008 at 4:18 AM

Unfotunately I did not make the panels procedurally.  It took me about three hours to paint the paneling in Paint Shop Pro (while watching the Dirty Jobs marathon).  If you look carefully, you can see the approximately 500 small squares I placed on the longitudenal and latitudenal lines (placed and rotated YEEK).

There is no procedural I have found to generate uniform thick lines and uniform panel sizes in a panel pattern in a circular setup.  All the ones I've seen get distorted somehow.

If such a beasty existed, I could have done the little squares as well using some creative mixers I'm sure.  Some of the patterns in the advance pack that was sold be Eovia might have been able to do it but the advance pack was not offered as a free upgrade when Carrara was upgraded to 6 (in fact, I'm not even sure if the advance pack is available at all anymore).

It's unfortunate too because the primivols and some of the gradient manipulators were really great.  I'm not in the mood to pay for plug-ins again when C gets upgraded every time (Gigantic Kudos to the most amazingly awesome and fantastic Eric Winemiller of Digital Carvers Guild!!!!! who does update plugins for free when C gets updated!).

-Kix