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CARRARA 8.5.0.172 is the latest Beta Build!

We are including the 8.5 Beta in your purchase of Carrara 8 or Carrara 8 Pro. You can run the production build of Carrara 8.1 side by side with this Beta build. Just don’t uninstall 8.1 version when you install this beta release.

The purpose of providing this build is for you to see the progress we are making, see how Genesis looks in Carrara, see the new features we’ve added and provide input on the changes. You can also see the list of bug fixes below. This list identifies issues that were logged in the bug tracker and highlights many of the other fixes in this build.

New in Carrara 8.5:
1. Support for imported Genesis DSF,  DUF (best used with DAZ Studio 4.5 RC 3 installed).
2. Character presets can be applied. Go to the Instance Tab, select the 2nd Genesis listed in the tree or the Actor line, and double click the character from the list. If the one of these items is not selected, an additional figure will be loaded with that character applied.
3. New Parameters Pane and user experience
4. Carrara 8.5 Parameter Pane.  If you are familiar with the Parameters Tab (with the Genesis figure) in DAZ Studio 4, the equivalent to Carrara 8.5 is the Parameter Pane which is accessed by selecting the second Genesis from the list.
5. Shaping in Parameters Pane. If you are familiar with the Shaping Tab in DAZ Studio 4, the equivalent for Carrara 8.5 can be accessed by selecting the Actor line from the tree in the Instance Pane.
6. Content Management System or CMS connection to utilize the DAZ Studio database (requires DAZ Studio 4.0.3.19 or newer recommended to be installed). We are looking into a project to install the CMS for Carrara without the need of DAZ Studio. So for the Carrara customers not using DAZ Studio they can still take advantage of the new system. More information will be coming.
7. AutoFit is included in Carrara 8.5
8. Fit To  (auto generates Genesis morphs) for Genesis designed clothing
9. Restore Figure tools
10. Memorize tools
11. Zero Figure tools
12. Smart Content Tab (shows all the content with meta data organized similarly to DAZ Studio’s Smart Content Tab)
13. New SubD / Smoothing tool (display the smoothing slider of smoothed vertex object in the assemble room)
14. Improved Bullet Physics for soft body simulation
15. aniBlock importer has been updated and fixed for Carrara 8.5
16. Mac OSX Lion support has been implemented
17. Geo grafting has been implemented and we continue to work on this feature
18. New Light Icons to better represent the lights, the controls have also been improved.
19. DUF Files from DAZ Studio are now supported in Carrara 8.5

If you are seeing issues please log the bugs in the bug tracker: DAZ BUG Tracker

Changes since the last beta build include:
Browser : Fixed : Fixed crash at exit
Carrara : Fixed #0046823 : Added more decimals to the value shader
Carrara : Fixed #0046989 : Fixed default scene settings when importing a syncar file
Carrara : Fixed #0047073 : Fixed crash with data components
Carrara : Fixed #0047180 : Fixed transform saving issue
Carrara : Fixed #0047156 : Fixed issue with NLA where modifiers are not always in synch
Carrara : Fixed #0044751 : Fixed volumetric rendering alpha issue
Carrara : Fixed : Fixed crash in shading room
Carrara : Fixed #0044751 : Fixed volumetric rendering alpha issue
Carrara : Fixed #0047338 : Fixed crash when saving car file
Carrara : Fixed #0047077 : Fixed active tool issue when open a component option dialog
Carrara : Fixed #0047210 : Fixed issue when in edit mode
Carrara : Fixed #0047341 : Fixed shortcut issue with mouse actions (on Windows)
Carrara : Fixed #0047163 : Fixed image format selection issue in exporters
CR2Importer : Fixed #0047152 : Fixed crash when loading cr2 file into an existing scene
DSF : Fixed #0046799 : Fixed DSF loading problem (M5 genitalia)
DSF : Fixed #0046990 : Fixed skinning issue with some legacy content
DSF : Fixed #0047096 : Fixed crash when refreshing the smart content
DSF : Fixed #0046022 : Fixed dsf pose/preset import when the figure geometry node has children
DSF : Fixed : Fixed light and camera size issues
DSF : Fixed #0047129 : Removed automatically added folder to the content browser
Mimic : fixed #46995 : add genesis.dmc to config files
Mimic : Fixed #0047209 : Fixed text file issue when the user does not have write access to the file
Obj Importer : Fixed : Added support for the alpha and alpha maps
Obj Importer : Fixed : Fixed problem when a material has both color/value and a texture map
Obj Importer : Fixed : Added support for bump amplitude extension (Km) used by Studio
Particles : Fixed #0047016 : Redesigned the UI to make the create instance button clearer

What you need to know about this build:

1. If you get a Duplicate ID error, please reset your download for the content and try reinstalling. If the issue persists please place it in the Content Project of the bug tracker (http://bugs.daz3d.com) as we believe we have fixed all of those.
2. Pz2 material Presets do work on Genesis and Triax Content, to include content that has been auto-fit to Genesis now.
3. PZ2 Poses do apply to Genesis
4. DAZ Studio 4.0.3.47 minimum, (4.5 RC3 recommended) must be installed prior to running Carrara 8.5 in order to use Genesis or the Smart Content Tab.
5. If new content with meta data is installed, DAZ Studio will need to be started in order to get the smart content into the CMS database.
6. V4/M4/K4 shaders will not work on Genesis and will have to be manually built.
7. Our development team is working on the tools to transfer data from DAZ Studio 4 to Carrara using our new file format.
8. Included Tree presets may not look the same as they did in Carrara 7, we are looking into this currently.
9. Adding IK to genesis works correctly and as expected, Genesis doesn’t load with IK. (In either DS or Carrara)
10. Mimic fixes have been implemented for Gen 4 and earlier.
11. Mimic and Mimic Pro for Genesis is fixed and will be made available to those who have purchases this.
12. Plugins for the previous builds of 8.0 are expected to work with this version.
13. The CMS service is not embedded in this installer. You will need to have installed DS 4.5 RC3 to be able to use that functionality.

To register the Carrara 8.5 Beta you will need to use the serial code listed here: CDZCPRO-085-0031103-AEM-001-EBTQTTT(Expires 21 April 2013)

Spot render is completely blank white.

...kind of like our ability to post a warning in the announcement sticky thread since Blane has locked it.

What’s this all about?

the last build I am aware of is 149????

Richard,

Build 172 came out late last week. It looks like they’ve improved a few things, but they completely broke the area render in the Mac version. All you get is a white square.

BrianP21361 - 30 July 2012 04:53 PM

Richard,

Build 172 came out late last week. It looks like they’ve improved a few things, but they completely broke the area render in the Mac version. All you get is a white square.

TYPICAL!

holly wetcircuit - 30 July 2012 02:28 PM

Spot render is completely blank white.

...kind of like our ability to post a warning in the announcement sticky thread since Blane has locked it.

Too late, I already installed it and am having fun with rendering. Works great here.

thoromyr - 30 July 2012 07:15 PM

holly wetcircuit - 30 July 2012 02:28 PM

Spot render is completely blank white.

...kind of like our ability to post a warning in the announcement sticky thread since Blane has locked it.

Too late, I already installed it and am having fun with rendering. Works great here.

Spot Render works for you? Which os? 64bit?

It is also too late for me…. So far renders seem ok. Shader room seems ok (along with shader room preview).

Buyer Beware…

Seems to be working OK for me on Mac OS X 10.6.8, 64 bit version.

holly wetcircuit - 30 July 2012 07:31 PM

thoromyr - 30 July 2012 07:15 PM

holly wetcircuit - 30 July 2012 02:28 PM

Spot render is completely blank white.

...kind of like our ability to post a warning in the announcement sticky thread since Blane has locked it.

Too late, I already installed it and am having fun with rendering. Works great here.

Spot Render works for you? Which os? 64bit?

It is also too late for me…. So far renders seem ok. Shader room seems ok (along with shader room preview).

Buyer Beware…

Everything works great. Spot render, full render, network render. Shaders work great. I haven’t had occasion to use the modeling room yet (though that is up). Only thing that’s happened is my laptop didn’t like waking up from sleep—I ssh’d in and it was fine, but the login process was hung. I gave it a signal (via kill) and that restarted—unfortunately it killed my gui login as well so I lost work in Carrara. But that is hardly Daz’s fault.

Despite the thread title there’s no reason I can see for mac users to not install this beta.

Holly, thoromyr, BrianP21361,
Which Mac OS versions, and Carrara (32 or 64 bit) versions are you using?
Maybe there’s a pattern.

ARE any of you using LION 10.7 or MOUNTAIN LION 10.8?

I’m running the latest build on Lion and Mountain Lion on an iMac and a new MacBook. Both systems are 64 bit and show the white square when I use the area render.

OS X 10.7.4 (Lion), Carrara 8.5.-172 64-bit. While I appreciate that Daz is providing support for older macs by making the 32-bit version available those are pretty old at this point.

Also osX.7.4 Lion. Carrara 8.5 - 172 64bit Mac Mini (early 2009)

Animation render seems fine. Haven’t had a lot of time to test but SPOT RENDER only renders a white square. Although it is clearly thinking hard about it and doing the full light calculation as the Spot Render slowly fills in white…

Eh, the Shader Room preview *is* effected…. The preview first fills in with white, then the the actual image blinks in. So the process of showing the live preview seems to take longer and is *very* annoying to look at. Rotating a model in the Shader Room preview gives me white flashes like a strobe light…. It’s actually really distracting.

Also you don’t appreciate a feature until it’s gone, but now I realize I use Spot Render on the Left, Right, and Top views in the Assembly Room…, since there is no actual render camera for those views.