Ocean Primitive
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9C1sdeglTlQ Simulating the surface of the ocean, this new feature can be used to create both still and animated oceans. Control the speed and direction of the wind as well as the wave height. For further realism, you can use advanced...
Volumetric Clouds
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eo8af8fbb6E In addition to the physical simulation of skies in Carrara, you can add volumetric clouds that realistically scatter the light of the atmosphere. You can control their shape and appearance, place them in 3D space, and animate...
Plant Modeler Improvements in Carrara 8
Improvements to the Plant Modeler in Carrara 8 include multiple leaf objects and a new Plant Shape tool. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJyieFOqsfQ
Landscape Wizard
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PR-JmEqH53M This feature makes it easy to create a greater number of original landscapes by allowing you to combine terrains, shaders, skies, vegetation, and rendering presets however you like.
Small / Medium / Large scenes
Large Texture Support In OpenGL
Carrara provides the ability to increase the texture size that is displayed in the OpenGL or viewport display. The settings will be based on what texture size your graphics board will support, and can be adjusted for performance or quality....
OpenGL Hardware Accelerated Preview
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-CACSopujxg The OpenGL engine now has support for texture maps that use alpha channels, as well as an improved textured preview mode. OpenGL performance has been improved in the vertex modeler to allow editing of large meshes to be...
Mulitple Undo/Redo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e2Zuxb0G3nE Experiment to your heart's content. With multiple levels of undo and redo, you don't need to be afraid to try something out even when you're in the middle of a serious project. If you don't like what happens, simply go back...
Multiple Selection in Properties
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YaqySho4UoU Carrara allow you to select more them one instance at same time and adjust many parameters at once too.
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. The camera speed, size of the working box and default size of the primitives are adjusted accordingly. This makes it a lot easier...