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...
Universal manipulator in Assembly Room
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=njTXbFKOmWo With the Universal Manipulator accessible from within the Assembly room, you can move, rotate, and scale your objects without having to change tools, dramatically increasing your productivity.
Multi Threading
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M0rYkK0xGW8 Spread the load on your CPU intensive calculations.
The Ocean Primitive
In this tutorial Cripeman reviews the basics of ocean primitive in Carrara. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SSYLUuw5aD0&feature=player_embedded
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