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maximkovalenko ([personal profile] maximkovalenko) wrote2006-04-07 11:01 am

For [livejournal.com profile] meteru, [livejournal.com profile] gomichan, and <lj

I have seen the future my friends...

The future is Carrara 5

I managed to nab some time on a computer that had it for a while this morning and did some test runs of some things...The results are staggering to say the least.

I used my reference character (Julia Wells) because f all the custom texture work and such that went into creating her and I find the results to be absolutely incredible.

What you are looking at behind the cut is a straight import into Carrara of the just the basic Poser file...for image quality I cranked the shit out of everything.





My friends, I am absolutely astonished at just how good a job it does.  For the graphic/computer geeks out there, C5 does multithread support for rendering too, plus you can set up rendering nodes like you can with Bryce foir  a home grown render farm.

After seeing the results of this, I have to honestly say that I think Bryce is finished.

[identity profile] maximkovalenko.livejournal.com 2006-04-08 03:03 am (UTC)(link)
I've been playing around with this off and on all day...what absolutely nails it is the Transposer plugin that comes with Carrara Pro 5.

The only thing I got to worry about with my rig is heat issues...C5 will actually use both halfs of an HT processor . On my rig, heat can build up pretty damn quick...all the more reason for me to finally step over to a desktop someday...

I've been thinking Alienware MJ12 dual Xeons for quite sometime ;)


Oh and did I mention that Transposer also handles dynamic hair as well?

[identity profile] meteru.livejournal.com 2006-04-08 03:42 am (UTC)(link)
Yep, definitely gotta try it out.

[identity profile] maximkovalenko.livejournal.com 2006-04-08 04:07 am (UTC)(link)
The only thing I really haven't tried it out on so far is Aiko, at this point.

I've ran through the base Poser figures...plus V3 and M3 without a hitch...


THe only thing that makes me twitch a bit is the "floating eyebrow thing" with Aiko. I have no idea how that wil turn out.

[identity profile] meteru.livejournal.com 2006-04-08 06:04 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah, I'm curious myself. I know it's a major pain in the ass with Bryce, but I wonder how Carrara will handle it.