Hey gang, hope all is good and gravy for you this Monday =)

After finally establishing my new system and having it run smooth, I decided to try the 3d paint features of both Hexagon and Carrara and spent the better half of the weekend learning the tools.

Everything went fine actually, I didnt have any "problem" I wasnt able to figure out but I have a few questions and would appreciate sharing some of that awesome wisdom you got =)

My 1st question is that when I took a model from Hex and applied displacement mapping brushes on it. Everything went fine, but I was surprised to see that the model doesnt use a displacement map like I had thought. I later learned that the Dismap doesnt export like the color/texture map, but needs to done as a seperate process. Thats fine too, was able to do that w/o any issue. My question is "why" did the model show/have the displacement that I brushed on it w/o the displacement map having been assigned in Carrara?!? Thats actually "good" I thought, not needing to worry about how to set the map, but Id like to know why it didnt need it. Do the displacement tools -actually- change the geometry w/o the need for a dsiplacement map?!? I know that displacement does indeed alter the model, but I was under the assumption it would still need the map in order to maintain its altered shape.

My second question (and this is strictly Carrara) is this. Is it possible to set a proceedural shader in Carrara and use the proceed to paint with, or are we limited to pictures only?!? Thats a longshot and I may be asking for too much but I wouldnt want to have the feature and not know how to use it).

I have to say Im amazed at the 3d Paint tool for Carrara and Hexagon. Wasnt able to use it before but its really amazing, especially that you can mix, add and delete layers of channels.

Also, if anyone has any work theyve rendered that utilizes the 3D paint tool for Carrara, if you could post links or screenshots of what youve done thatd be really awesome =)

Thanks again for your patience in reading my long winded and often boring posts =)

Any help/posts/links/adv anyone could send my way would be greatly appreciated!

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