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Carrara Information Manual by Dartanbeck

by 3drendero | Feb 3, 2017 | Feature, News, Tutorials

Dartanbeck over at the Carrara section of the Daz3D forums has created a great thread that serves as an alternative Carrara 8.5 Manual.
It includes up to date and sorted links to the video tutorials by Cripeman, details about animation, hair plugins and a lot more.
Here is a must have link for all Carrara users:

Carrara Information Manual:
http://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/15970/carrara-information-manual/p1

*UPDATE*
Now also added an “Carrara Information Manual” button on the frontpage of CarraraCafe.

Carranimation Part 1 – Rotation of the Hip

by Dartanbeck | Mar 8, 2014 | Cafe Articles

Carrara has a vast array of little check boxes and fields to fill in that help us to have things animate on their own with just a little input from us. All over the place the Carrara interface is checking to see if we need some automatic animation assistance, and I think that’s very cool, indeed! In this article I wanted to instead demonstrate my simple method of character animation. There are many techniques to animating characters and I’ve read instructions about quite a few of them from text books to online tutorials and even a few videos on the subject. The method I ended up becoming the most comfortable with is most similar to the text book, but likely has a bit of other sources mixed in as well. All in all, I don’t really think that it’s the studying that makes us better at animation, but the practice. Not to belittle education mind you. Not even close. It’s the study that gives us knowledge and inspiration – a good idea of where to begin with great advice on how we need to interact in between and performing counter balance motions, weight distributions. But nothing can actually make that stuff happen for you. In order to make it happen, you actually need to advance that timeline and make a move! So let’s get started.
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Luxus for Carrara Manual (PDF)

by rk | Dec 9, 2013 | Cafe Articles, Carrara Plugins

For all users who are interested in a Luxus PDF manual, here it is. Thanks to Spheric Labs for his permission.

This unofficial manual based on the development/documentation blog, you can find here including some related downloads:

-> https://carraracafe.com/plugins/luxus-the-luxrender-plugin-for-carrara-developmentdocumentation-blog/

You can download the manual itself here (comic style):
https://carraracafe.com/downloads/

Update: 2013, December, 14

– Tip added: Alpha and Transparency (by Spheric Labs)

by Holly and rk.

Luxus Manual (unofficial)

Carrara translation in German!

by Jetbird_D2 | Oct 31, 2013 | News

Interesting news to every German Carrara user out there.

Carrara 8/8.5 is now translated to German language as well as documentation is also being translated with many portions of the manual translated already and available for download.

— Updated —

German Language Pack:

– German Language Pack for Carrara 8.1.1.12
– German Language Pack for Carrara 8.5.1.19.

The packages included:
– translation from Carrara itself
– german and english Shortcut PDF
– translation from the CADStyle Docu
– translation from the native content (Shader, Scenes, Objects, Atmospheres …)

German Shortcut Reference:

The Keyboard Shortcut Reference updated to version 8.5.0.243 (official release).

German Carrara Manual:

The Carrara 8 / 8.5 manual has currently around 500 pages.

These chapters are available as finished material:
– Welcome to Carrara (Einleitung)
– Carrara Overview (Überblick allgemein)
– Setting up Carrara (Einrichtung)
– Assemble Room Overview (Überblick über den Montageraum)
– Using Content Files (Content)
– Using Environmental Primitives (Environment-Primitive)
– Import/Export (Import / Export)
– Using Primitive Tools (Primitiv-Tools)
– Vertex Modeling Overview (Überblick über die Vertex-Modellierung)
– Spline Modeling Overview (Überblick über die Spline-Modellierung)
– Metaball Modeling (Metaball-Modellierung)
– Arranging Objects (Objekte arrangieren)
– Working with Objects (Mit Objekten arbeiten)
– Modifiers (Modifikatoren)
– Using Formulas in Carrara (Formeln)
– Using Scene Effects (Szeneeffekte)
– Setting Cameras (Kameras)
– Glossary (Glossar)