Carrara 8 Basic Users Guide - Documentation Center - Daz 3D

Carrara Overview
This chapter introduces some of the major features and concepts of DAZ 3D Carrara. With Carrara, you can create dazzling
3D illustrations, animations, and Web output in six easy steps:
• Create a scene using object primitives.
• Build true three-dimensional objects with easy-to-use, intuitive modeling tools. (Standard, Pro)
• Apply colors and textures on your objects, giving them realistic properties such as transparency and reflection.
• Light your scene to enhance realism and depth.
• Create animations of your scene.
• Render your scene, animation, or Web output with Carrara's powerful rendering engines to produce extraordinary,
photo-realistic illustrations or animations.
Carrara combines power with an easy-to-use, intuitive user interface.
Creating Scenes
A Carrara document is called a scene. A scene is the collection of objects, light sources, and cameras, saved together in a
file. Each new scene has several windows associated with the different rooms. As you create your scene in Carrara, you'll
work in the various rooms to create and place the various elements that you want to use. Before you can create a new 3D illustration,
you must create a new document. A new document starts with a blank scene.
USING THE SCENE WIZARD
The Scene Wizard is a collection of useful basic scenes that can be used as a starting point to create a scene. The Scene
Wizard also contains some demonstration scenes that show particular features of Carrara.
To open the Scene Wizard:
1. Choose File > New.