Digital Carvers Guild has released a new Carrara plugin called: DCG Importer: “The DCG Importer lets you render simulations and animations from your favorite 3D tools that export sequenced OBJs.”
A description from Eric Winemiller at Digital Carvers Guild: “It will import sequenced OBJ versions of anything the built in Wavefront OBJ importer will do. By only keeping one frame in memory at a time, it lets Carrara handle large or long running animations.”
One use case is exporting a fluid dynamic simulation from Blender (free) or RealFlow (expensive) into Carrara, the Youtube below shows the result.
3drendero is fast as lightning, here is what he spotted:
The free Carrara plugin PyCloid for particle simulation has been
updated to version 0.2 beta and now supports fluid simulation.
Frederic “f1oat” Rible has also included support for multicore CPUs
and a lot more:
Many new features :
– particles collision with scene objects
– tube geometry along particle path
– fluid simulation
– isosurface geometry
– new sample files
– multi-core CPU support
3drendero reports that there is a new plugin available by Fenric that will help you import and handle new Poser figures in Carrara 8!
Here is what 3drendero says:
One of the best Carrara plugin developers, Fenric, has just released a
new free Carrara plugin called Poser Weightmap 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.
Instructions are included in the ZIP file.”
Lightwave Motion Designer Data (MDD) File Format Filter for Carrara
Bring Carrara fully into your animation work-flow!<
This plugin provides both import and export support for the Lightwave Motion Designer/Point Oven (MDD) file format. MDD is rapidly emerging as an industry standard for animation data exchange between 3D applications by pairing a standard wavefront Object (OBJ) file with a frame-based description of the animation for that object.
This plugin opens the doors to animation by enabling Carrara to both import and export the OBJ/MDD file pairing.
DAZ 3D offers a new tool for modelers to transfer data from Carrara to ZBrush via a new tool called GoZ for Carrara. Watch this video to learn the tool and see what’s possible to customize your figures.
