Pose and Shading Tools 2

Here is a set of new Carrara features that are sure to be a hit! Included are two new commands, a new tweener, and three shaders to spice up your artwork:

Pose Transfer Command

Stack Tweener

Clear Timeline Command

TowardAway Shader

Color Balance Shader

Color Separation Shader

Color Merge Shader

Carrara Enhanced Remote Control

The Enhanced Remote Control suite is a set of behavior modifiers and scene commands that work together to add much needed functionality and control to your animation workflow. It provides the basic functionality of Poser’s ERC for creating joint-controlled movement within Carrara. But it also provides so much more, giving you the building blocks to rapidly create advanced, realistic animation.

Control them all: Shaders, light values, position, rotation, morph settings – even other modifiers!

Commands:

Add ERC Modifier

Create ERC Chain

Add Pin Modifier

Delete Keyframes

Remove Duplicate Keyframes

Jitter Keyframes

Change Morph Limits

Property Explorer

Modifiers:

Pin

ERC

Pose Helper for Carrara

Have you finally set up the perfect pose, only to realize she’s facing the wrong way? Change your mind about which hip that hand should be resting on? Ever wish you could just bend all of the joints in that tail the same amount when there’s no Easy Pose to fall back on?

Now you can. With the Pose Helper for Carrara, you finally have the ability to swiftly and easily make these changes and many more!

Left / Right Pose Symmetry based on scene element names

Morph Zeroing

Pose Zeroing

Rotation Setting

Scale Zeroing

Scale Setting

General Scene Option Setting

Full undo/redo support

Works on content, native figures, and groups of primitives

Works across multiple figures and groups

BVH/PZ2 Exporter

The Poser Pose Exporter plugin adds a new dimension of compatibility between Carrara and other Poser compatible software packages. This plugin adds the ability to export Poser Pose (PZ2), Animated Poser Pose (PZ2), and Poser-compatible BioVision animation data (BVH) from a single, easy to use function.

• Exports Static Poser format Pose File (PZ2)
• Exports Animated Poser format Pose File (PZ2)
• Exports Poser compatible BioVision Animation File (BVH)
• Configurable Operation
  • Choose whether to include or exclude:
    • Overall Motion (global translation)
    • Joint Rotation
    • Morph Dial Settings
    • Joint Scaling (independent X, Y, and Z parameters)
  • Configure start and end frame range for animated poses

Ivy generator

I’m wrapping up development on my latest project – a port of Thomas Luft’s “Ivy Generator” to Carrara. I’ve put together a little Q&A for you guys:

Q: What is it?

A: It is a scene command plugin that grows an ivy-like plant on an object. It includes shaders.

Q: How much will it cost?

A: Nothing. It will be available from ShareCG, and will include source code

Q: How does it work?

A: 1. Set your scene options to display three decimal places (yes, really).

2. Pick an object with renderable geometry

3. Move the Hot Point of the object to the place where you want the ivy to start

4. Choose “Generate Ivy“.

5. Review and adjust the ivy settings, click OK

6. Watch progress bars

7. Adjust scale and position if needed (it should be close).

8. “convert to other modeller”, vertex object (or else it won’t render properly).

Q: What sorts of objects will it work on

A: – primitives

– splines

– metaballs

– vertex objects

– terrain (but not very well)

Q: What sorts of objects will it NOT work on

A: (Seriously… don’t do it – these crash Carrara) – fire

– clouds

– ocean

– fog

– lights

– cameras

– target helpers

Q: Does it animate?

A: No

Q: I mean: can you animate the ivy growing?

A: No

Q: Can I go back to an object later and grow the ivy more?

A: No

Q: Can I have a description of what the ivy settings do?

A: This will be provided in a readme with the plugin.

Know more ate Daz3D forums:

http://forum.daz3d.com/viewtopic.php?t=149552&highlight=ivy+generator

Poser Weight Map Injector

This is a pair of utilities to facilitate importing weight-mapped Poser figures into Carrara. This is a multi-step process, and is not guaranteed to work for every figure.

Requirements: Weightmapped Poser figure like Miki4 or TylerGND, Poser Pro 2012 SR2 and Carrara 8 (unknown if earlier Carrara versions are supported)