Free EnvironKits for Carrara

Dartanbeck

(Argh... okay, I'll be back soon to fix the images)

 

Carrara EnvironKits were created with the idea of using simple lighting tricks to get faster renders when working with larger 360 degree scenes and were sold at Daz 3D.

The first in the series laid down the base environment lighting system which forsakes things like translucent leaves for 'under lighting' to simulate the effect at faster render speeds. True translucency truly looks much nicer for scenic stills, but I was rendering animations. I needed them to render quickly and be very simple to quickly set up.

 

Being a fan of having multiple options in the browser, I've included a ton of presets with each kit, along with various modular chunks of pre-built terrain that we can place onto the terrain of any of the base scenes for those times when we want to sculpt out our own landscapes. Tree and shrub presets, shader presets, and a morphing selection of volumetric clouds help to round out each of the packs.

 

Carrara EnvironKit - Woodlands

What's Included

42 Preset Carrara Scene Files (.CAR - Scenes Browser)

• 30 Using the Realistic Sky Atmosphere

• 12 Using Background Maps Made Using This Kit

Preset Nature Blocks (.Car - Objects Browser) - Preset Objects of Terrain with Plants

• Small, Medium and Large for Ease in Quickly Populating Scenes

• New Preset Plants and Leaves(Berries) (.CAR - Objects Browser)

  • • Premade examples in the Browser

    • Load Presets in the Plant Editor

Three Complete Terrain Shaders

Two Water Shaders

Full Environmental Lighting Rigs in Every Preset

Additional Optional Clouds System

• Ground Fog (Volumetric Cloud)

• Animatable Cloud Domes (Replicated Volumetric Cloud)

 

The pdf User's Guide is available on the download page as well as these two videos to help inspire through guided, albeit long-winded tours

Getting Started

Build a Scene : Palenque Ruins

Carrara EnvironKit - Underwater Realms

7 Preset Underwater Scenes: (.CAR - Scenes Browser)

* 1 Base Scene containing all the controls

* 6 Presets made using everything from the kit showing a variety of possibilites and different uses for the terrain pieces.

 

3 Preset Terrain "Formations":(.CAR - Objects Browser)

* Formation 1 is sharp and irregular

* Formation 2 is smooth and rounded, transitioning to the jagged floor

* Formation 3 is spiky with many smaller formations, suitable for all manner of habitat.

 

Each are made to scale up large, or shrink down small, making it duplication friendly.

 

You can build all manner of scenes using nothing more than the files included.

Shaders and Terrain pieces work beautifully with other Carrara Environ Kit products.

 

Bubbles:

* Grouping of three individual particle emitters that send forth glass-shaded primitive spheres, which are very resource friendly on your system.

Set up to follow directional forces already supplied within each preset scene.

 

Shaders:

* Underwater Terrain Shader Group

* Overhead Surface Water Shader

 

Carrara EnviroKit - Underwater Realms.pdf Instructions Manual, which is also available on the Download Page.

...to be contiued