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Hi Ringo,
Thanks for that.
Re the viewport. I now remember that I would occasionally lose the
camera. It would disappear into infoinity and I just couldn't get
it back to the scene. Usually, I had to quit without saving, go
back to the last save point and re-do whatever I'd lost. It was
just an horrifically irritating occurance that didn't seem to have a
consistent source. Clearly, it wasn't universal and probably of my
own doing.
Most of the import formats would be .OBJ so if the options have
broadened, that's great.
Now, this may be idiot question, but I'm intending to upgrade my
screen to a 24in widescreen and then the current little horror as a
second display to have all the commands on. I take it that C5Pro
will allow dual displays.
Regarding rendering, I do like the look of the Ambient Occlusion
render and the benefit it will give to fly throughs. I also like
the look of the Replicator (every time I see that word I have a
Stargate flashback...). From the publicity it looks as if it can
replicate and object or goups of objects. Is that so? I have a
personal project involving the recreation of 12th Century Canterbury
and Paris. Replication would take away a lot of the hard work for
non-essential objects.
Thanks,
Philip
--- In Carrara@(protected), "Ringo Monfort" <RingoM@(protected)> wrote:
>
> Hi, Philip
>
> Welcome back to the group and to Carrara.
>
> I hope I can give you some answers other are welcome to jump in
with
> more info.
> 1. I'm not sure what you mean by viewport. Are you refering to the
> assemble room camera view?
> That is by default your render camera. Personally I use the
director
> camera view or have the 4 window view to compose my scene and only
use
> the render camera view to see how it will look in the final
render. Just
> my preference when I work. I don't have any problems with getting
any
> distortion.
> 2. The shader room was redesign and it has more advance features
than
> before. Going from C3 to C5Pro is like night and day. Shading is a
> pleasure to use specially with the advance 3D view.
> 3. Lots of changes in the import and export with more import
format. I
> just imported a 29meg IGES file into carrara 5Pro with practically
no
> delay and it didn't even slowed down Carrara while I was moving
arround
> the object. What format will you be importing OBJ? There are more
> options in the OBJ imported now.
> 4.Rendering is musch faster and you can now use Ambient occlusion
and
> Irradiance mapping to get even faster rendering. Very useful for
flythru
> style of animations. Say for example you have a new building that
you
> want to present to a customer and use the camera to fly around
and move
> to different areas of the outside of the building but you what your
> animation to have that nice global Illumation with realistic sky
setting
> and trees. Well thanks to Irradiance mapping you can do that and
render
> your animation at a fraction of the time that it used to be. Great
stuff
> for architects.
> Also thanks to the replicators you can have one tree replicated at
> different locations of your landscape that you will use for your
> bulding.
>
>
> If you have any more question fell free to ask.
>
> Ringo
>
>
>
>
>
> 1 Does the viewport still distort the composition when moving
around
> or zooming in and out? It was a major annoyance for me and one
that
> Max did not suffer from.
> 2 Is the shader control much more controllable? I do a fair
amount
> of architectural work and I could never seem to scale the shaders
to
> the composition such that they made for realistic constructions.
> 3 Are the import compatabilities more stable? I used to witness
> ridiculous distorions even from Amapi and Illustrator.
> 4 How much has the render time improved? I use a 2.4GHz P3 with
> 1.3Gb ram and remember one frame with a tree (simple larch) in it
> taking 45 mins to render. Many of my images are historical and
thus
> forestry features regularly.
>
> I realise these are small things to many but any info would be
much
> appreciated.
>
> Regards,
>
> Philip
>
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