Clinton's
Carrara Plugins

27-November-2004

LizardMan with BVH skeleton inside Carrara 4
LizardMan inside Unrealed	Click the picture to see the walking animation(224K wmv format)

ase/t3d Export	Completely untested ase and t3d exporters for Carrara 6.  These may or may not work and there will be no further updates to any of the plugins.
	untested ASE exporter for carrara6
	untested T3D exporter for carrara6
PSK Export	The PSK export plugin will write an Unreal compatible skeletal mesh object along with a corresponding PSA animation file.  This plugin will only work with Carrara version 4 and the generated files can be read by Unreal2, Unreal Tournament 2003 and 2004.
PSK for Carrara5	unzip the DAT, MCX and TXT files into "C:\Program Files\Eovia\Carrara 5 Pro\Extensions"
download PSKmcx for Carrara4 download PSKdta for Carrara4 see bottom of page for Unreal Skeleton downloads	Copy the DTA and MCX files into your extensions folder, "C:\Program Files\Eovia\Carrara 4 Pro\Extensions". Select the root bone, the topmost bone of the hierarchy and choose Export in the file menu.  Choose PSK as the file format and save it.  A PSA(animation) file will also be written to the same folder and will be named "Carranim.psa" Limitations, Rules and Notes: 1. The skeleton must be attached to a single polymesh object. 2. The mesh object must be made of triangles only. 3. All the bone names must be unique. 4. The skeleton must not be scaled at any time. 5. Maximum of 8 textures(Built in characters usually use 2 textures). 6. BVH import adds a space to bones names.  Be sure there are no extra spaces at the end of the PSK file name or Unrealed will not import it properly. 7. The UV editor must be used to get good results in texture translation. 8. There is no progress bar when exporting. 9. Maximum of  48000 vertices and  48000 triangles. 10. Maximum of 500 bones. 11. Unreal2 Engine limited to 4 bone influences per point/vertex. 12. To import several animations into Unrealed use the "Merge sequences into existing" option after renaming the animation inside Unrealed. 13. BVH import - do NOT scale the skeleton on import, but use the scale from the bvh file.  The bone names must be unique. 14. Aug 2007 Now works with constraints and IK. 15. text log file called "PSKexportLog.txt" is generated 16. The animation play range determines the frames that will be exported. 17. Mesh at frame 0 is taken as the default pose.
PSK/PSA file is used to create characters and vehicles for the Unreal game engine.	download PSK source code
T3D Export	The T3D export plugin will write an Unreal brush or map file for use with the Unreal game editor.  It should work with Deus Ex 1 and all versions of Unreal editors.  Texture UV information is not exported, but this can be adjusted in the game editor.
T3D for Carrara5	unzip the DAT, MCX and TXT files into "C:\Program Files\Eovia\Carrara 5 Pro\Extensions"
download T3Dmcx for Carrara4 download T3Ddta for Carrara4 The Carrara 4 exporter only works on vertex objects at this time. download T3Dmcx for Carrara3 download T3Ddta for Carrara3	Download the appropriate version of the plugin. Copy the DTA and MCX files into your extensions folder, "C:\Program Files\Eovia\Carrara 4 Pro\Extensions" or "C:\Program Files\Eovia\Carrara Studio 3.0\Extensions".  To write a brush file select the object and then save it/export it as a T3D format file.  To write a map file deselect all objects and save as a T3D format file.  Single object, brush, export does not support hierarchical structures, so no grouping is allowed.  Map export does support grouped objects.       The object textures are jumbled when imported into Unreal editor.  The procedure for fixing the textures is as follows: 1. if using your own texture have it loaded into mylevel first 2. select a surface and then right click on it and select "all surfaces adjacent" 3. right click again and choose - surface properties - alignment - face - "align" 4. choose the "pan/rot/scale" tab 5. select a single face and rotate it by 45 until it looks good(repeat for all faces)
Brushes can be created inside the Unreal Editor, so this plugin would be used for objects that would be too difficult to create using UnrealEd.	download T3D source code
ASE Export	The ASE export plugin will write an Unreal compatible ASE file for staticmesh creation in the Unreal game editor.  It should work with Unreal2, Unreal Tournament 2003 and 2004.
ASE for Carrara5	unzip the DAT, MCX and TXT files into "C:\Program Files\Eovia\Carrara 5 Pro\Extensions"
download ASEmcx for Carrara4 download ASEdta for Carrara4 download ASEmcx for Carrara3 download ASEdta for Carrara3	Download the appropriate version of the plugin. Copy the DTA and MCX files into your extensions folder, "C:\Program Files\Eovia\Carrara 4 Pro\Extensions" or "C:\Program Files\Eovia\Carrara Studio 3.0\Extensions".  Select a simple, non hierarchical object, no groups allowed, and export it.  Texture information will only be read from the selected object.  All geometry in the scene will be exported and objects with special names will import into unrealed as collision objects.
Static mesh brushes cannot be created inside of UnrealEd and are an important part of level creation.  Generally speaking brushes create the space and staticmesh brushes create the detail in an Unreal level.	download ASE source code
	Click here to see the notes I took while getting the SDK to work with MS Visual Studio NET 2003.  The notes are worded as if an ASE export plugin is going to be written with the sample DXF code as the template.

Test object inside Carrara with 6 distinct texture maps
Test object brush before and after texture correction inside UnrealEd	Test object ASE imported as a staticmesh inside the Unreal Editor

Carrara format Unreal compatible skeletons for use with the built in Unreal animations
AlienMaleA	AlienMaleB	BotA	BotC	BotD
EgyptFemaleA	EgyptMaleB	JuggFemaleA	JuggFemaleB	JuggMaleA
JuggMaleB	MercFemaleA	MercFemaleC	MercMaleA	MercMaleB
MercMaleC	MercMaleD	NightFemale	NightFemaleA	NightMaleA
NightMaleB	Skaarj3	Skaarj4	Skaarj10	Skaarj
Skaarj_Skel	SkaarjUT2004		UDNFemale	UDNMale
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I can be contacted via email -  iclint at mindspring dot com