Carrara and Terragen Composition - Polyloop

Ben Martin · 18th January 2006, 17:33

Hi all,

This is my very first post here.

I'm testing Carrara 5 (Demo) and beside the good Carrara Landscape possibilities I would like to be able to composite Carrara animations with Terragen Landscapes.

My interest is because I'm expecting to use Carrara 5 Pro and TG2 in a project that I'm producing. Anyone knows if there is any trick to synchronize booth, light and cameras between Carrara and TG to allow composition?

Any tip would be much appreciated!

Many thanks for your support!

Ben Martin

yoda · 23rd January 2006, 19:52

well it depends if you want to make the final render in carrara or in terragen?

if terragen is the final renderer you can always work on carrara for the basic landscape and export the file in 8bitraw format..

for the camera placing well you can work on coordinate in carrara and note down the camera position height rotation etc.. and then reproduce it in terragen on a local scale... (i haven't tried yet)

if you plane to import in carrara, the landscape will need to be exported in greyscale and imported in carrara landscape modeler as for the textures I think you might be able to export them as well.

can you be more precise?

don't think you can do much more for the moment

Ben Martin · 23rd January 2006, 23:07

Hi,

Many thanks for your interest.

As you probably well know, composite is the act of combine different rendered layers in any software able to do so.

Putting in other words:

I’m going to use Carrara to render figure animation and Terragen to render the landscape. The problem is that to achieve an effective composite booth renders should interact and for that booth cameras and lights (TG2 and Carrara) must be synchronized related to the terrain (landscape)!

Anyway, don’t bother… I’ll try to figure out a way to sync all of that!
In fact I’m planning to write a conversion batch to that propose!

Thanks anyway!

yoda · 24th January 2006, 12:34

oki, well I thought you might want to do so but I wanted to be sure!

well I think for the moment tricking with the greyscale map can help position your camera.

if you manage to create a script please do inform me I will be most interested...

good luck

18th January 2006, 17:33	#1 (permalink)
Ben Martin Vertex Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Portugal Posts: 2	Carrara and Terragen Composition Hi all, This is my very first post here. I'm testing Carrara 5 (Demo) and beside the good Carrara Landscape possibilities I would like to be able to composite Carrara animations with Terragen Landscapes. My interest is because I'm expecting to use Carrara 5 Pro and TG2 in a project that I'm producing. Anyone knows if there is any trick to synchronize booth, light and cameras between Carrara and TG to allow composition? Any tip would be much appreciated! Many thanks for your support! Ben Martin

23rd January 2006, 19:52	#2 (permalink)
yoda NURBS Booleans are your friend Join Date: Aug 2005 Posts: 104	my opinion well it depends if you want to make the final render in carrara or in terragen? if terragen is the final renderer you can always work on carrara for the basic landscape and export the file in 8bitraw format.. for the camera placing well you can work on coordinate in carrara and note down the camera position height rotation etc.. and then reproduce it in terragen on a local scale... (i haven't tried yet) if you plane to import in carrara, the landscape will need to be exported in greyscale and imported in carrara landscape modeler as for the textures I think you might be able to export them as well. can you be more precise? don't think you can do much more for the moment __________________ matériel utilisé: bi processeur intel Xeon 2.4 Ghz hyper treading / carte graphique ASUS 6800 GT 512 Mo / 2 Go DDR 333 / ecran LG Flatron 19 pouces....

24th January 2006, 12:34	#4 (permalink)
yoda NURBS Booleans are your friend Join Date: Aug 2005 Posts: 104	oki, well I thought you might want to do so but I wanted to be sure! well I think for the moment tricking with the greyscale map can help position your camera. if you manage to create a script please do inform me I will be most interested... good luck __________________ matériel utilisé: bi processeur intel Xeon 2.4 Ghz hyper treading / carte graphique ASUS 6800 GT 512 Mo / 2 Go DDR 333 / ecran LG Flatron 19 pouces....

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23rd January 2006, 23:07	#3 (permalink)
Ben Martin Vertex Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Portugal Posts: 2	Hi, Many thanks for your interest. As you probably well know, composite is the act of combine different rendered layers in any software able to do so. Putting in other words: I’m going to use Carrara to render figure animation and Terragen to render the landscape. The problem is that to achieve an effective composite booth renders should interact and for that booth cameras and lights (TG2 and Carrara) must be synchronized related to the terrain (landscape)! Anyway, don’t bother… I’ll try to figure out a way to sync all of that! In fact I’m planning to write a conversion batch to that propose! Thanks anyway!