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

Objects
Adding Objects
Assemble Room Overview
The Assemble room provides a large document window for working on your scene. When you create a scene, you assemble
the objects, place lighting and cameras, and specify effects used in that scene. You can even apply pre-defined textures to
objects in your scene while in the Assemble room.
The Assemble room is where you arrange objects, cameras, and lights to form a scene. Like the Modeling windows, the As ­
semble room provides up to four separate panes, each containing a different view of your scene. You can change views using
the view layout controls.
The 3D workspace of the Assemble room is called the universe. The universe is where all objects are displayed,
assembled, and manipulated. Carrara uses a coordinate system called the Cartesian coordinate system to reference
positions in the universe. A trio of unique coordinates (X, Y, and Z) is associated with each position in the
universe.
The tools available in this room let you place and manipulate objects and position cameras so you can view, and later render,
your scene from different viewpoints. By default, Carrara opens new scenes with one distant light and one conical camera.
You can also begin the modeling process in the Assemble room by dropping some object primitives into a scene. After you
add shaders in the Texture room, switch back to the Assemble room to add modifiers and lights as needed. You can position