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Carrara 8 – Basic Users Guide
TEXTURE ROOM
After you add content, you can create or modify shaders to enhance the realism. Carrara features state-of the-art shading
technology, which lets you apply colors and surface textures to your objects. You can apply shaders that emulate wood grain
or marble, or customize effects like bump, transparency, and reflection.
The Texture room is where you create, edit, and apply shaders to all or part of an object. Use shaders to create almost any
kind of surface you can imagine. Shaders define aspects of the surface of an object, such as the color, texture, reflectiveness,
and transparency.
You can apply a Multi-Channel shader to an object or create a Layers List shader that combines several sub- shaders into
one composite shader to create more complex effects. Each shader becomes a part of the scene and is referred to as a Master
shader.
You can also see a preview of your scene while you are shading objects or creating a shader. To learn more about shaders,
refer to "What are Shaders?."
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