Digital Art Zone

Hi all,

Installed 8.5 and am thankfully no longer crashing!

That said… is there a way to get my material presets back?

thanks,
Andrew

Hi Andrew

You can add the presets folders manually to the beta, ....or you can install the Carrara Native Content into the beta program folder.
Personally, I don’t bother adding the content.
it’s easier to add any existing folders to the browser,. rather than duplicating files I already have.

Hope it helps

Thanks!

I deleted C8 before installing C8.5; I also have 7 installed.

Do you know if I need to reinstall 8 to get the shaders from there?

cheers
Andrew

Hi

The Carrara presets are in the “Carrara Native Content” installer,. which is a separate installer from the main Carrara program.
So,.. no, ..you don’t need to install Carrara 8 again,.
You should be able to run the Carrara Native content installer and direct it to wherever you have the beta installed.

Great! Thanks again.

No problem.  glad to help

Ok, now I’m really showing how little I know about how Carrara actually works….

Where is the folder containing the default textures? I’ve been searching for about a half hour…..

Anyone?

I can’t find the presets anywhere…

thanks
Andrew

have you got show hidden files folders and drives enabled in folder options?
C:\Program Files\DAZ 3D\Carrara8\Presets is where it usually is
and
C:\Users\user\Documents\DAZ 3D\Carrara 8\My Presets

Well, I’m on a mac, but can’t seem to find any of the content!

Hm…

Hi Turner

I’m not a mac user, but the presets should still be in the same relative location,.. EG: inside the main carrara application folder.

on PC, it’s program files \Daz3d\Carrara\presets.

Anyone else?

I still cannot find the materials on my mac…

thanks,
Andrew

Hi

if you’ve installed the “Carrara native content” into the same location as the main program,...then the shaders should be automatically showing up in the carrara browser.

if you’re looking for the individual texture maps, they should be in the Carrara / presets / shaders folder, along with the carrara shaders.

You should also be able to open a shader in carrara, then go to the shader editor, and hold your mouse over the name of the texture map used in the shader, and a yellow info tag will pop up and give you the full address of the image,

i just noticed this from your first post ..

is there a way to get my material presets back?

any shaders you make are saved in (on PC) My Documents / daz3d ‘/ Carrara / My presets / my shaders

I’ve tried reinstalling the native C8 content; all I’m ending up with is “carrara.app”, but it’s greyed out and cannot be selected when trying to add textures…

Can you open the (non beta) carrara, and then load one of your preset shaders, to try to see where it’s actually located.
or,

Q; is there still a “finder” app on macs, where you could search for “My Presets” ?

Hopefully a Mac user will pop in at some point.