nobletrilogy opened this issue on Jan 12, 2011 · 8 posts
nobletrilogy posted Wed, 12 January 2011 at 5:45 PM
I recently downloaded group of architectural
shaders and am having trouble loading them into the browser.
any tips?
MarkBremmer posted Wed, 12 January 2011 at 6:02 PM
nobletrilogy posted Wed, 12 January 2011 at 6:17 PM
the shaders are called capsfreebies and they load into the browser using the load folder option yet when i open the folder in the carrara folder then nothing is listed where the samples are shown.
It also came with a model of a home and it states its not a valid carrara file when i try to move the model to the scene.
I have an older version, carrara5 , would shaders compiled by newer versions not be compatible with older versions? The shaders in caps freebies have the *.cbr extension.
MarkBremmer posted Wed, 12 January 2011 at 8:15 PM
Having an older version is probably the issue. While the shaders may all have .cbr as a file suffix, DAZ has implemented several new shader features since then. So, C5 probably gets to that code and thinks "I have no idea what to do with this" and stops reading the file.
Likewise for the House file. :-/
nobletrilogy posted Wed, 12 January 2011 at 10:19 PM
understood...
darn i was hoping it was something i was doing wrong....
Thanks mark
heddheld posted Thu, 13 January 2011 at 6:52 AM
c7 was a gave away on one of the 3d mags in the last yr
might be able to get a back copy?
forgot which mag but there aint that many
nobletrilogy posted Thu, 13 January 2011 at 9:55 AM
Quote - c7 was a gave away on one of the 3d mags in the last yr
might be able to get a back copy?
forgot which mag but there aint that many
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heddheld
thanks ill look into it.. was looking for some construction type shaders.. like brick and stucko etc. etc.
pauljs75 posted Fri, 14 January 2011 at 4:07 PM
Yeah it's a pain sometimes. A lot of sites that host freebies don't require that uploaders post versioning info. (They really should though.) So if you're still running older software, you can often hit this roadblock. Unlike Bryce or some other apps, Carrara doesn't make versioning obvious in the file extensions or descriptions.
Many will argue that you should upgrade. Sometimes budget or older hardware prevents this. Not to mention that sometimes the new bugs that show up also make the effort to upgrade less compelling than whatever the new features may make it out to be. (Whether that's the case for Carrara, who knows? But some other software, I've been happy to stick with what has worked. That whole "If it ain't broke..." adage.)
In additon to versioning - some shaders also require the use of add-ons. Plugins by Inagoni or DCG for instance. Anyone uploading shaders using those should mention it though.
Your friendly neighborhood Wings3D nut.
Also feel free to browse my freebies at ShareCG.
There might be something worth downloading.