Carrara 8.5 provides seamless support for the Genesis and Genesis 2 figures you know and love. The new parameters tab grants intuitive access to morphs for your figures and allows you to filter by region, body part, and even keyword. Carrara 8.5 ships with AutoFit, and Morph Projection which allows you enormous versatility in clothing.
New and improved animation and keyframing tools including Key Frame Filters and a Graph Editor put the power in your hands. These new tools, as well as new intuitive keyboard shortcuts, connect the serious animator to the model in a symbiotic relationship. Smoothing, refining and perfecting animation sequences has never been easier.
New SubDivision and Smoothing tools allow the user to control render level and model level smoothing from within the assembly room. This cuts time out of your flow and saves you from needlessly switching between the modeling and assembly rooms just to update smoothing options.
Improvements to the viewport avatars for Lights and Cameras provide a new, aesthetically pleasing look to the interface. The Sunlight, Moonlight, Shape Light and Tube Lights have all received a make-over. This provides a greater visual reference as to how light will emanate from a source and react in the scene.
Amplitude, Timing and Scaling in the Graph Editor
Summary
Animation curves can be scaled, translated, inverted or mirrored with the selection tool in the Carrara 8.5 graph editor.
Animation Filters
Using the Carrara 8.5 Animation Filters
Summary:
Carrara 8.5 includes animation filters that allow the user to smooth,reduce, and sample animations. These are useful for smoothing out rough animations, eliminating unnecessary key frames, and preparing animations for export. 
New keyboard shortcuts
Play/Stop animation
Advance the frame
Preview a frame
Hey Holly
Haven't seen you around here in awhile.
Thought you got kidnapped or something.
Those are tweaks/features I wasn't really aware of. I'd like to see the complete list but doubt seriously if it will add enough value to C8.5 to justafie the $285 price tag.
IMPROVED COMPATIBILITY on IMPORTED 3D FILES
http://www.daz3d.com/forums/viewthread/28013/
Frank__ reports: obj-import now reads the textures in the mtl-file.
wendy♥catz reports: the FBX import is usable for iClone pipeline exports, unlike 8.1
Yes, I read that post. But carrara reading an MTL is a fixed bug not a new feature. It just took DAZ how many builds to fix? As is FBX; which I really didn't think DAZ would ever fix. None the less, bug fixes are actually expected in an update. But the info is appreciated.
Holly
Good to see you here. I was getting a little worried about you.
Happy to see the additional shortcut keys
8068
yes I'm glad you are alive too, gee I was just starting to like you and you vanished....
As I have come to recognize ---Daz had to work like heck to get Genesis working in Carrara. I mean they need to get Genesis in more places and ovbiously they need to have some folks do some cool things with it so getting it to work in Carrara was very important.
So sure most of this version .5 is content driven but it was necessary for DAZ if not so much all their users. That said -----As Holly has shown above there have been some other additions made --small but helpful. I have to say for me it seems pretty nice. I did not own Vicky 5 or Mike 5 --so the upgrading decison was made easy by those throw ins ----If I already owned them....not so sure. But am glad I did . I also like to suppport the development. It cost money for developers. And I want to show DAZ ---yes I am still behind you here ......and am hoping for hope for a less content driven focus for version 9 .
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