Yes! You heard it right! 🙂
C3DE Issue 10 is now available!
Featuring interview with the initiator of C3DE,
amazing tutorials from Jetbird_D2, David Collins, Scott Franz
and many beautiful art images from Carrara users!
http://issuu.com/c3de/docs/
http://www.sharecg.com/v/67946/view/3/PDF-Tutorial/C3DE-Issue-10
A CarraraCafe exclusive news piece, straight for Daz HQ in Utah.
It is the February news announcement that brings the release dates for both Carrara 8.5 and 9.
We will be releasing Carrara 8.5 by end of summer 2013, and are working on some plans to release 9.0 either Q4 or Q1 2014.Â
Carrara 8.5 will include:
– Support for up to Windows 8 and OSX 10.8
– DSON support
– Metadata support
– New animation tools (keyframe tool improvements, smoothing, keying every frame, etc.)
– Graph editor improvements
– Improvements to viewport avatars (Lights – spotlight, sun, moon, etc. Cameras – Conical, Isometric, etc.)
-JUST IN: Improved bullet simulation for soft bodies
Source: Steve Spencer, Director of Sales and Marketing at Daz3d.
More details in the Daz3D forums.
http://www.daz3d.com/forums/viewforum/66/
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UPDATED: Casual has released the first early version for Carrara export to Cycles:
Download and Tutorial: https://sites.google.com/site/mcasualsdazscripts2/mcjblendbotspecial
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Casual, the maker of the Daz Studio to Blender Cycles GPU rendering scripts called McjTeleBlender, has shown early script support for Carrara to Blender Cycles GPU rendering engine. While it may take several months for Casual to do something that is easy to use, it is possible to see preview can be done already now, more details in these threads:
http://www.daz3d.com/forums/viewthread/17623/
http://www.daz3d.com/forums/viewthread/2877/P150/
Original scripts for Daz Studio: https://sites.google.com/site/mcasualsdazscripts/mcjteleblender-for-ds1-2-3-4
CoolArtDude has just re-released the first, second and third set of his Carrara Latex shaders for FREE!
Previously sold at Daz3D.com for 14,95$ each, but now they are gone from there after the store upgrade.
In the first set, you get 168 solid shaders and 168 transparent shaders,
The second set comes with 186+186 shaders and the third has 21+21 shaders.
Get them all right here at CarraraCafe:
/EDIT 20140202
Replaced with this download
https://carraracafe.com/free-leather-and-latex-shaders-for-carrara-by-iamartistx/
Download re-added (2018/24/09) here >Â https://carraracafe.com/download/8720/
Original forum thread with some more info:
http://www.daz3d.com/forums/viewthread/17257/
A new section for CarraraCafe has been added, the Freepozitory, currently only a button link on the main page to the original forum post.It includes to most important links to the major freebie sites, like ShareCG, Renderosity and the old Daz3D Freepozitory, but the idea is to add new freebie links too.
ShareCG freebies for Carrara: http://www.sharecg.com/b/5/3D-Models/?keywords=&member_type[All]=on&attribute[2005][2489]=1&attribute[2017][-1]=1&attribute[2538][-1]=1&tdm=a&s=dd
Renderosity freebies for Carrara: http://www.renderosity.com/mod/freestuff/index.php?section_id=4
The original thread with a lot more links to freebies, please add more if something is missing: http://www.daz3d.com/forums/viewthread/6893/
Three new products for Carrara (and Daz Studio and Poser too) has just been released by DimensionTheory, as usual there is an intro price of 30% off, the HDR Pro Sets Urban Recreation is currently 50% off.
I’m happy to announce the release of my second HDR Prosets product, from my trip to Monterey California! This set is now available in the store, with presets supporting DAZ Studio, Poser and Carrara. Also, new to the series are my “Basesets” which I’ll be releasing with each new set. These contain just the HDRI files and background textures for use in most any program at a cheaper price, very useful if you don’t use the named programs or just want to make your own presets!
HDR Prosets: Monterey –
http://www.daz3d.com/new-releases/hdr-prosets-monterey
HDR Basesets: Monterey –
http://www.daz3d.com/new-releases/hdr-basesets-monterey
On another note, Carrara and Poser support has been rolled out for my previous set Urban Recreation! Those who purchased this set previously should be receiving the updated files, if not please reset your downloads and let me know if there’s issue. Newcomers will be able to grab the set at it’s original discounted price of 50% off for a limited time! Please enjoy these new presets and feel free to post your renders for me to see!
HDR Prosets: –
http://www.daz3d.com/urban-recreation
More info and pictures here: http://www.daz3d.com/forums/viewthread/17022/
Carrara 8 Pro is on the Top 10 sellers list of the Daz3D.com store for January, mentioned both in a newsletter and on the Sales/Promotions page.
This is celebrated with and extra sale on the whole Top 10 list, including Carrara 8 Pro, which is 48% off for non Platinum Club members and 69% for PC members.
PC members have also received a 25% rebate code with the Daz Install Manager promotions 1-2 weeks ago, for Daz Original products, unsure if Carrara 8 Pro will work with that code though.
Check out the Daz3D Hot Promotions page for more info: http://www.daz3d.com/sales-promotions/
