Hi, My name is Marc and I'm from New Jersey, USA. I recent aquired a copy of Carrara Studio 3 and a handfull of other programs from a friend whos been sent off to Iraq so he obviously won't be able to use them and was nice enough to hand them off to me :) I used Ray Dream Studio back in high school around '95-'96 however this looks totaly unfamiliar and I've almost no clue what I'm doing :) Problem #1 is he couldn't find his manuals by the time he left just the cd's so I'm going at this with little information. I used the tutorial that Carrara offers when you install the program and from there tried to start making a couple models. My first is a sword from medievil era (or atleast my version of one) Which I managed to make however the entire inside of it is hollow which they didn't really cover in the tutorial, they just showed the example to make the Eovia fish. I would like be able to fill it in and then apply the shade for organic metal to the blade and steel/aluminum for the handle.

Ex. #1 Sword View #1
Http://www.mindcrash.net/carrara3-sword1.jpg

Ex. #2 Sword View #2
Http://www.mindcrash.net/carrara3-sword2.jpg

I also cannot get this to render without it being pitch black even though I have a spotlight pointing directly at it. Any help would be great, Thanks in advance.

-Marc

Message edited on: 06/01/2004 11:36

Message edited on: 06/01/2004 11:36