Forum: Carrara

Subject: can you import shade 8 into carrara?

zombiebrain opened this issue on May 10, 2006 · 9 posts

zombiebrain posted Wed, 10 May 2006 at 9:55 AM

Just wondering if ill be able to import my shade 8 files into carrara when i get to that point. Thanks

anastasis20 posted Wed, 10 May 2006 at 10:39 AM

Thats an odd request - isn't Shade the same kind of mid-level, all in one app as Carrara?
I've only ever used Shade 7LE and I didn't think very much of it, so I don't know what v8 has.

Anyway you'll have to export your models out of Shade as .obj, .3ds, .dxf, .lwo to name a few, obj files are probably your best bet - they seem to be the most used 3D file format out there. I haven't seen any options for bringing actual Shade scenes into Carrara. If Shade 8 has the ability to bake/convert any procedural textures you've created to bitmaps that will also speed up the process of bringing stuff over.

Hope thats useful.

zombiebrain posted Wed, 10 May 2006 at 10:52 AM

Thanks, I just wanted to find out since at the moment I make props in shade and have been creating terrain in carrara, and im going to start puting the props in the terrain.

anxcon posted Thu, 11 May 2006 at 10:50 AM

shade was made to work easily with poser wasnt it?
might allow export of poser prop/character/etc  format?

in either case, you should be able to export an obj file
which you can then import into carrara

ShawnDriscoll posted Sun, 14 May 2006 at 12:37 AM

I could import one of your OBJ models into Carrara for you and show you a render of it, if you like.

www.youtube.com/user/ShawnDriscollCG

estherau posted Tue, 16 May 2006 at 6:54 AM

there are some pretty neat models available for shade at content paradise. If they transfer easilly with their textures and materials to carrara and look okay that would be great. Does anyone have both to give us a demo? Love esther

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Dennis445 posted Tue, 16 May 2006 at 12:32 PM

I picked up some of the model packs for Shade (got Shade 7 when I bought Poser 6 last year) here is a test pick I did with some buildings exported out of Shade using .obj.

The textures are origonal Shade export, the scene uses the replicator fuction and GI for lighting.

bevans84 posted Tue, 16 May 2006 at 1:12 PM

Here's a quick C5Pro render of one of the bikes from a Shade content pack.

Exported from Shade as .obj and imported into Carrara.


estherau posted Wed, 17 May 2006 at 5:20 AM

thanks - looks good.

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