Tony, be nice...

The CTA users have often feel slighted, as all attention always seems to be on iClone and CC. It's probably a different development group anyway...

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LOL....Well, either development group:
1 - is a different group, in which case CTA users are not impacted by anything iClone or CC, and are just being selfish
2 - is the same group, in which case BOTH are justified in feeling slighted!  But if this is the case, YES - I feel slighted! 

RL - by the way, have you been getting crashes with Iray in multi-GPU scenarios, or are testing scenarios pretty stable? 
If you are getting crashes, that's pretty normal.  Sometimes it can be the power demand on the PSU that causes GPU disconnect, other times the actual rendering can 'clog' the VRAM to the point where a GPU fails.
GPUs failing can freeze the PC, sometimes it's just a Windows precautionary move to avoid hardware damage.  
Multi-GPU CUDA rendering can be quite temperamental!

Nailed it, CT8 was the biggest dog and pony show I recall from RL. I'm stuck with it and won't install it on my PC.

That aside, even in CC2 you can export with ease to 3DCoat or Substance.

Not trying to up-sell  but after 20 minutes on one of Kai's tutorials I was BLOW AWAY by what 3DCoat can do. For creating faces / textures it's so far and away a better tool for creating faces than CT8 their not even in the same category. Spend  20 minutes with 3DCoat and your face creation problems are solved.  -- A little longer to master

Haven't even got to substance yet, it appears that were RL's leaning, however they both work very well for texture / face creation.

They usually have 99$ deals around the holidays.

3DCoat and Substance are battling it out with free feature updates..

Please try the demos, you won't regret it.




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I will chime in with praise for 3DCoat -- two more things it works well with is creating weight maps for cloth (really pretty amazing in this regard) and, unlike almost any other program out there (certainly Substance can't do it) creating UV maps.

Creating UV maps is a snap, and even improving existing ones is easy.  That alone is reason enough to buy the program.

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Im not sure if this have been adressed, but will iClone 7 owners have to buy iRay as a seperate plugin? Because I remember pipeline owners of previous tools got Curve editor for free.


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Hi, you have to add an age generator for the characters (child-adult-senior). The current system is only good for creating senior characters. It is very important!, 

It's a separate plugin. Users who owned 3DXchange 7 Pipeline still need to pay extra for it.

Hi Miranda - I seem to be a bit confused here.(my primary state of consciousness )Somewhere in this thread it was explained what was 'free' in the way of CC3, & iRay plug-in for current owners of the big 3 programs (CC2, iC7, 3DX) If I could get clarification of which products are considered a 'free' plug-in/upgrade, and what will be required for all current owners to buy to have what is needed when the new products are available for pre-order.
Thank you in advance for catching me up in this dept. ~V~

       Val RogueAnanda