{"id":19289,"date":"2022-07-17T20:15:16","date_gmt":"2022-07-17T20:15:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/?p=19289"},"modified":"2022-08-09T13:23:48","modified_gmt":"2022-08-09T13:23:48","slug":"what-use-is-carrara-in-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/2022\/07\/17\/what-use-is-carrara-in-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"What use is Carrara in 2022?"},"content":{"rendered":"

What would one use Carrara for in 2022? After a few hours with it again, I’d say it still has some appeal for those interest in non-animating NPR \/ stylised renders…<\/p>\n

* Relatively light on system resources, uses multiple cores, stable, 64-bit. Doesn’t demand Windows 10 etc.<\/p>\n

* Works with older Poser content, albeit from a very clunky and un-searchable Library.<\/p>\n

* Nice NPR rendering on older Poser content, both line-art and painterly. Different and a bit more controllable than Poser line-art \/ painterly Sketch. Repeatable painterly and line-art renders are not render-size dependent, as they are with Poser Sketch.<\/p>\n

* Has toon plugins and native tooning capabilities, and several toon plugins now free<\/a> including YAToon<\/a> and Toon! Pro<\/a>. Neither seem to give very “pro” looking results. For a more CAD-style line-art there’s the Vector Style 2 for Carrara plugin which ships with Carrara. The Carrara 5 Pro Handbook<\/em> has a chapter on using it. Can export to .SVG for vector packages, via File | Save as…<\/em> but I had no success at all with it.<\/p>\n

* Relatively easy to hide eyelashes<\/a> for NPR \/ toon renders. Though, without any automation, such fiddly processes can’t be automated.<\/p>\n

* Still has some nice bits in its default content bundle, such as easy-start pre-lit rooms, some nice Solar System planets.<\/p>\n

* ‘Make anything glow’, albeit with a bit of fiddliness in setup.<\/p>\n

* Can grow \/ groom fur and hair, and a bit more easily than in Poser or DAZ.<\/p>\n

* Has a true Isometric camera \/ grid (which DAZ and Poser don’t have). Can also export depth data. (I discover Vue also has Isometric, and can import from Poser).<\/p>\n

* Multi-pass rendering to Photoshop .PSD output, though it seems odd that NPR “outlines” line-art can’t be sent to its own layer? I would have thought that was vital. Though with a day of work you could probably brew several good NPR render presets that would bypass the need for Photoshop.<\/p>\n

* Can apparently import old Bryce .DFX files.<\/p>\n

* Has Mimic Pro for lip-sync, built in. I assume it still works.<\/p>\n

* Has a ‘3D text extrusion’ tool, which Poser and DAZ don’t.<\/p>\n

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Difficult to think of things beyond that, things which other software doesn’t do better. You can’t do useful things like make new Poser content in it, or ‘live 3D’ paint a mesh of a Poser prop, as the needed Poser-native export and packaging options are not there. It’s all meant to go from Poser to Carrara, it seems, and not the other way around.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

What would one use Carrara for in 2022? After a few hours with it again, I’d say it still has some appeal for those interest in non-animating NPR \/ stylised renders… * Relatively light on system resources, uses multiple cores, stable, 64-bit. Doesn’t demand Windows 10 etc. * Works with older Poser content, albeit from […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-carrara","category-natural-media-emulation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19289","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19289"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19289\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19902,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19289\/revisions\/19902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}