The material editor (called "shaders") in Carrara 6 remains one of the best in the industry. It's easy to learn from existing shaders and equally easy to build your own shaders, and as with anything else in Carrara, you can animate textures for impressive videos and animations.

The Texture Room

Another Image of the Texture Room - This is where you create and edit shaders. Click for a larger image.

Once your image or animation is complete, rendering is both fast and extremely impressive, especially on a multi-processor machine. Carrara is written to take advantage of multi-processor machines and will render separately on two or more threads. If you want even more rendering power, you can use networking rendering to offload some of the work on other render nodes.

Carrara 6 is a no-brainer upgrade for existing Carrara owners. If you don't already own a copy of Carrara, now is a great time to start using this outstanding application. Carrara is fun, powerful, and intuitive. It also lacks the frustration factor that you often find in 3D applications. We highly recommend Carrara 6 for anyone interested in 3D graphics and animation.

 


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