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Carrara to Unity Animation Troubles

by rk | Jul 14, 2014 | Tutorials

Kre8or:

“I haven’t had any luck getting a file into Unity that works. I’ve tried several ways and will continue with any suggestions. As you can see in the video, Unity has many key frames that were not in the original animation. Deleting the key frames in Unity causes further issues like animation without keys. I’ve also tried this with a bone as a parent, to no better results. I’m using Carrara 8 pro 64bit and Unity 4.5.1”

OctaneRender 2.0 released

by rk | Jun 10, 2014 | News

OTOY releases yesterday (Mon Jun 09, 2014) OctaneRender 2.0 and says:

“The new features in OctaneRender™ 2 include:

Displacement mapping – Used to give objects depth and detail, displacement mapping allows the height of points on a surface to be adjusted based on an image value.
Object motion blur – The blurring effect that simulates motion of inanimate objects in a rendered scene is supported and can be applied independently of camera movement.
Vertex motion blur – The blurring effect associated with geometry deformations, such as movement of a character’s arms or legs.
Hair and fur – An optimized hair render primitive is now available to allow rendering of hair or fur while reducing memory usage by 20 times compared to previous processes. OctaneRender™ 2 also simulates the distribution and fluidity of movement of those primitives.

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Working with Physics in Carrara 8.5 Pro

by rk | May 23, 2014 | Tutorials

Part 1: Physics Tutorial

Emw Grimhilda: “This is a tutorial for beginners wishing to try using soft body physics in Carrara 8.5 professional.”

Part 2: Physics Tutorial

Emw Grimhilda: “A second tutorial for starting to use Bullet Physics in Carrara 8.5 Pro.”

Part 3: Physics Tutorial

Emw Grimhilda: “Third and final demonstration of using Soft Body Physics with Carrara 8.5 Pro.”

Working with Instance Randomizer Plugin

by rk | May 10, 2014 | Tutorials

Phil Wilkes:

“A demo of Sparrowhawke3D’s wonderful new plugin for Carrara called Instance Randomizer, which allows each instance of a duplicated object to have different shader values. Download here:
http://www.sparrowhawke3d.com/Instanc…

This is a powerful new tool to use with Carrara so that each instance can be different colors – or any other attribute.”

DCG´s Shader Ops 2 updated

by rk | Mar 22, 2014 | Carrara Plugins

Update for Shader Ops 2 online (March, 22, 2014)

Eric: “Shader Ops 2 gets a patch to fix a problem where child shaders of Camera Mapping would not animate.”

Shader Ops 2 is a collection of shader plug-ins for Carrara; Light Mangler, Multi Ops, Camera Mapping, and more. Remix your shaders after the lighting is done with Light Mangler. Multi Ops and a new in channel Layers List simplify the shading tree. Camera Mapping opens new avenues for mixing in real world footage or photos.

More information and download: http://www.digitalcarversguild.com/plugin.php?ProductId=20

Inagoni´s ArchiTools Plugin updated

by rk | Mar 4, 2014 | Carrara Plugins

New update for ArchiTools 1.3 online

Inagoni: “The last update fixes an occasional crash on some platforms and various memory leaks.”

More information – http://www.inagoni.com/e107_plugins/content/content.php?content.8

Download – http://www.inagoni.com/e107_plugins/content/content.php?content.14

HitFilm 2 Express for free

by rk | Jan 21, 2014 | News

HitFilm 2 Express for free (Win and Mac)

– Free download is only available until February 4th –

Quote from the website: “We’re giving away a fully functional, free version of HitFilm 2 Express, our hybrid video editor and visual effects software.”

For more informations, see here: http://community.hitfilm.com/index.php?/blog/1/entry-328-get-hitfilm-2-express-for-free

-> You don´t need a account. Close the window, then you can register and download the software.

HitFilm 2 Express Video