DAZ Carrara 6

Carrara 6 Features:

Animation

Dynamic Hair

With this new hair/fur modeling and simulation feature, you can paint, cut, and brush realistic hair on any object you choose.

Non-Linear Animation

The non-linear animation engine allows users to create clips that can easily be reused and combined with other clips using multiple tracks.

Rigid Body Simulation

The physics engine in Carrara has been redesigned and vastly improved with simulations now finishing up to ten times faster than before.

Euler Angles for Rotations

Experience greater control and ease of use when posing and animating figures with your choice of either Quaternion interpolation or the new Euler angles.

Content Support

Full DAZ 3D Content Support

Now you can take advantage of Carrara's advanced features with your favorite DAZ 3D figures and accessories.

Conforming Figures

Conforming figures are now fully supported including compatibility with morph cross-talk.

Content Browser

Use multiple runtimes to quickly locate assets and then use drag 'n drop functionality to load clothing, props, and presets directly onto your subjects.

Enviroment & Special Effects

Scene Scaling

This feature allows you to pick the scene's starting point, (Small, Medium, or Large) and then manipulate the scale of the scene so that you get proper atmospherics and accurate camera control.

Ocean Primitive (Pro Version)

Simulating the surface of the ocean, this new feature can be used to create both still and animated oceans. Control the wave height and frequency, plus the speed and direction of the wind.

Morph Creation

Utilize Carrara's great modeling tools to make your own custom morph targets and easily save them as parameter sliders within your existing figure.

Landscape Wizard

This feature makes it easy to create a greater number of different landscapes by combining terrains, shader, sky, vegetation and rendering presets.

Render Time Displacement on Terrains (Pro Version)

To add even more detail on terrains, you can use the render time displacement feature that applies a shader to the surface of the terrain to displace it.

Vertex Modeling

Displacement Modeling (Pro Version)

You can paint detail on a model with the greatest of ease (using free-form brush tools) almost as if you were modeling with clay.

Edge Extrusion (Pro Version)

The new edge extrusion tool lets you extrude corners of objects interactively.

Symmetrical Modeling (Pro Version)

Streamline the modeling process! Ideal for creating and editing anything from characters to vehicles and more.

Bridge Tool (Pro Version)

The Bridge tool builds a connecting surface between two different mesh selections.

Figure Editing

It is now possible to edit the mesh of imported figures as well as create new morph targets, including full-body morphs, inside the vertex modeler.

Shading And Lighting

Transparency with Absorption

Carrara now simulates realistic light absorption through transparent objects. This is ideal for effects like shallow water or frosted glass.

In-Scattering

In-Scattering is an effect simulating light reflected by small particles inside a medium (for instance, steam in the atmosphere).

Import/Export

DAZ Studio Import

Import scenes from DAZ Studio into a Carrara native scene complete with geometry, rigging, and surface materials.

Direct X Import/Export

Import and export in the Direct X format (geometry, materials, and animation).

General

Start-up Scene Wizard

This feature makes it easy to start the design of your scene by choosing from a series of presets, the landscape wizard or an empty scene.

Multiple Selections

Support for multiple selections has been extended so that properties of objects can be edited simultaneously in the properties panel.

Unicode Support

The new Unicode Support allows you to use just about any character set you want (Chinese, Japanese, French, and more) inside Carrara.

Features

Animation

• Non-Linear Animation
• Dynamic Hair

Carrara 6 - Animation

• Euler Angles for Rotations
• Multiple Selections
• Conforming Figures
• Key Frame Animation
• Improved Rigid Body Simulation
• Key Frame Animation
• Weightmap Painting - Skinning
• Joint Orientation Tools
• Improved Particle Generator
• Graph Editor (Pro Version)

Environment & Special Effects

• Start-up Scene Wizard
• Landscape Wizard

Carrara 6 - Landscape Wizard

• Ocean Primitive
• Render Displacement on Terrains
• Tree Modeler
• Volumetric Clouds

Advanced Textures & Shaders

• Transparency with Absorption
• In-Scattering

Carrara 6 - In-scattering

• Texture Spooling
• Translucency
• Subsurface Scattering
• Ambient Occlusion
• Fresnel Effect
• Particle Emitter
• Anisotropic Lighting
• Fly Through Optimizations
• Material Editor
• Inclusion and Exclusion Lists for Lights
• Irradiance Maps (Pro Version)

General

• Unicode Support
• Improved OpenGL
• Multiple Undo/Redo
• Universal Manipulator in Assemble Room

Modeling

• Displacement Modeling (Pro Version)
• Symmetrical Modeling (Pro Version)
• Edge Extrusion (Pro Version)
• Bridge Tool (Pro Version)
• Morph Creation
• Figure Editing
• Improved Vertex Modeler
• Spline Modeler
• 3D Manipulators
• Smoothing (Subdivision Surfaces)
• Displacement & Microdisplacement Mapping
• Metaball Modeler
• Selection Tools
• Text Modeler
• Surface Replicator
• Soft Selection

Rendering

• Shadow Bias
• Improved Blurry Reflections
• Improved Depth of Field
• Network Rendering
• Multi Processor Support

Imports / Exports

Content

• Full DAZ 3D Content Support
• Content Browser
• DirectX Export
• Improved PZ3/CR2 Native Import
• FBX (Pro Version)
• RPF Export (Pro Version)
• After Effects Camera Export (Pro Version)
• Match Mover Tracking (Pro Version)

Carrara 6 System Requirements:

Windows Windows^®

• Pentium^® III Processor 700 Mhz (1 GHz or faster recommended)
  • Windows 2000^® (Service Pack 2)
  • Windows XP^®
  • Windows Vista^®
• 512 MB RAM min (1 GB recommended)
• OpenGL compatible graphics card
• 300MB free hard drive space for installation (500 recommended)
• 32-bit graphics color depth
• CD-ROM drive

Mac Macintosh^®

• Mac^® Intel or Power Macintosh^® 700 MHz (1 GHz or faster recommended)
• Mac^®OS X 10.3.9 or above
• 512 MB RAM min (1GB recommended)
• OpenGL compatible graphics card
• 300MB free hard drive space for installation (500 recommended)
• 32-bit graphics color depth
• CD-ROM drive

*** Note: Carrara 6 will not function installed on a UNIX partition under Mac OS X.***