New Release – Carrara 8
While the professional 3D artists tend to focus a lot on the major 3D apps, there are a number of 3D tools that are used by designers, hobbyists and artists who may not want the huge investment of time and money into a more technical application. That’s where companies like DAZ 3D do quite well, catering to this market. Just released is Carrara version 8, with improvements in animation tools, lighting, vegetation tools and optimized rendering.
Carrara 8 Pro is 64-bit compatible for Mac and Windows, and includes physics simulation using the open-source Bullet physics library.
Additionally, updated export capabilities enable game developers to transfer custom figures, environments and/or animations directly into the Unity game engine via the FBX file format.
New features:
- Improved Plants & Vegetation: Users may add custom models and textures for unique leaves, flowers, fruit and more. Artists may also use a variety of different leaf objects per plant for increased natural variation.
- Editing of Posed Meshes: Now users can complete important clean-up and detail work on conforming objects while the model is posed or conformed. This allows the user to see immediate results as they work.
- Enhanced Lighting Tools: Not only will Carrara 8 users experience an improved user interface, they will enjoy negative lights, God rays, barn doors on spotlights, and the much-requested capability of photometric (IES) lighting.
- Improved Animation Tools: DAZ Studio‘s Puppeteer has been added to the Carrara 8 toolset, enhancing animators‘ ability to quickly create realistic animated figures that may be recorded and used as animation clips. This once tedious process has now been simplified by blending between saved poses, shapes and expressions.
- Optimized Network Rendering: Users will enjoy greater control over their render farm as they easily add and remove nodes via their master machine, render frames or buckets as desired for greater safeguarding against lost render data.
For additional information regarding Carrara 8 and Carrara 8 Pro, please visit: www.DAZ3D.com/software/carrara8.
The full version of Carrara 8 Pro is available in both Macintosh and Windows formats via the DAZ 3D-Gizmoz website, and is regularly priced at USD $549. Licenses for the standard version Carrara 8 are available for USD $249.95.
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