Frederic Rible A.K.A F1oat revealed extended feature set of the new genesis of Carrara particles system called PyCloid!
PyCloid now will be capable of growing tubular geometries that will be very usable to animate growing vines, or growing any kind of abstract or systematical tubular geometry.
In addition PyCloid now will be capable of particle collision with other objects! Could this lead to one step closer to Fluids in Carrara?
PyCloid 0.2 Beta is coming soon to shake the lands of Carrara artists!
Seems to me like this the best of times to get some fun going on in our Carrara Section. A trip back to the good days of exploration and community sharing. So, I’ve decided to whip up a little contest for you guys to play with. In order to spark some interest this time around, I’ve decided to actually include a prize. Which I will now put in the center of the page in big bold letters to catch everyone’s attention…
$15 Gift CertificateÂ
My personal favorite submission to the contest will receive the $15 gift certificate. I will likely pick some honorable mentions or runner ups that get something nice as well, so don’t worry too much about thatÂ
At this point you’re probably wondering what the contest is. Well, let me explain. I’ve created this prop specifically for this contest. What the prop is, I have absolutely no clue. It’s dubious and it’s a doodad, the Dubious Doodad. Here is the doodad in question…
Your goal is to use whatever the heck this thing is in a way that I feel is thought provoking. You won’t be judged on render quality, though it certainly wouldn’t hurt. I’m looking for imagination, and the ability to turn something stupid into something amazing. If you can turn it into something practical and actually useful that’s all the better. I’ll be creating some of my own attempts and saving them until after the contest is over.
The rules are simple. Do whatever you want to or with the thing, but you can only use Carrara. Apply modifiers, rig it, shade it, change domains, stretch it, catch it on fire, add additional props or figures, replicate it, turn it to particles etc etc. Creativity shouldn’t be held back by many restrictions. There are how ever a few points that I would like to ask you to follow.
 If you’re modifying the mesh in the modeling room do not delete anything. Add to, extrude, sweep and sculpt what’s there all you want, but do not remove any of the mesh.
The Dubious Doodad must be the center of attention. Don’t tuck it somewhere in the background of an amazing image and expect to win!
It must be obvious or provable that you actually used the doodad.
I’ll be letting the contest run for two full weeks, so the deadline will be 09-17-2011. If this goes over well with the community I’ll consider making this a regular thing. Feel free to submit as many entries as you like, and most importantly HAVE FUN!!!
More information at DAZ 3D Carrara forum.
Per request by Dimension Theory, please discuss this contest in the DAZ 3D forum
Inagoni was born in 2004 in Japan and is dedicated to provide reliable and well integrated plug-ins for Carrara. Inagoni is now based in France and although the frequency of the release of new plug-ins is lower than before, the spirit is still the same.
The plug-ins are going through continuous improvements and new feature developments are guided by users requests and suggestions. These new feature are always given through free upgrades. This is the same for the upgrades following Carrara new releases.
Why «inagoni» ? In Japanese, inagoni is «The locust» (イナゴã«). But the name came from an English song that was sung by a fellow Japanese who didn’t understand its meaning and was having a bright smile while the lyrics were very dark (something about dying from a cancer «in agony»). The contrast between the mood of the song and the singer was quite amusing and the name was kept.
ArchiTools is an advanced building modeler designed for 3D artists. It’s UI has been especially conceived to make it intuitive, easy to learn and fun to use. Just a few clicks are necessary to create a complete building, and this new modeler being fully procedural, all its elements can be tuned and modified at any time during the construction process.
Primivol contains the following volumetric primitives: Fire, Cloud, Smog, Rising Smoke. Through these primitive, Primivol can also render any 3D shader as a volume, and can alter its shape with a set of modifiers and ramp-off functions. Lighting, self-shadow, density, color and many other parameters are accessible through the UI and can be precisely adjusted and animated.
Baker
Baker is a texture baking tool. Using the UV mapping of an object, it can extract flat texture maps, light maps or normal maps from any Carrara shader. Baker can also read ZBrush normal maps.
Deeper
Deeper is a small rendering engine to produce normal map from a 3D scene.
Replica
Replica clones objects in arrays or on existing surfaces, and each clone can even have a randomized or controlled position, scaling, orientation or even shading.
Shaper
Shaper adds Free Form Deformation capabilities to Carrara. Shaper is a very handy deformer that allows you to deform any geometric object with a cubed grid of points.
SWAP
Swap can replaces any kind of element in the scene hierarchy by another one: it can replace lights with cameras, cameras with lights, or any objects with another one.
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