https://www.posetteforever.com/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=4038&p=45605#p45605
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Nik
Sunday, 28 March 2021, 03:12 PM

Re: My AC3D Trial Fortnight's Adventures...
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"Carrara and Hexagon are stuck as x32"

'I thought Carrara 8.5 was 64-bit '
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Yes, so it is !! Thank you, thank you !!

Has moved on from my DAZ freebie version. Must check for improved capacity and tool-set.

FWIW, if AC3D can only handle one (1) wrap-map or texture per exported object *and* has wonky Booleans, then is not better than my ~2017 TurboCAD. At least TC supports multiple 'colours' per model, one per part's 'drafting layer'. And TC would export such via 3DS format, which I could then 'texture by colour-codes' in eg Poser...

Snag is I want budget software able to reliably 'slice and dice' eg the vast, hugely complex OBJ+MTL sets by Richard Mandel and his team, free on SCG. Dozens of wrapped textures & colours, hundreds of texture calls...

I've spent entire evenings salvaging lesser models exported from FBX minus MTL, wearily matching the many nice textures to their oft-obscurely named materials. I think my record was ~70 materials, but that gave me a 3-day migraine. Worse, they never quite looked right, as lacked Ka, Kd, Ks etc modifiers beyond my 'best guess'...


