Forum: Carrara

Subject: Total Newbie silly question

sylki opened this issue on Oct 18, 2009 · 8 posts

sylki posted Sun, 18 October 2009 at 4:39 AM

Hi Everyone,
I've just bought Carrara 7 Express at the Daz sale and I don't know where to put the Native content. I put it into the programme itself because there doesn't seem to be a content folder like with Daz Studio but Carrera doesn't see it and asks for the CD. Please any help would be most appreciated by this totally computer illiterate newbie!

Thanks in advance

Sylvia

GKDantas posted Sun, 18 October 2009 at 7:54 AM

Hi Sylvia,

Carrara can have almost like a Runtime folder, as you can see in the printscreen. The SCENES is where all the scenes goes, and the PRESETS folder is where all shaders, objects and other things will be.

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GKDantas posted Sun, 18 October 2009 at 7:58 AM

Now the not so fun part... since your Carrara inst seeing your content you will need to add all by hand (you can try to reset your preferences to first: go to MENU / RESET PREFERENCES), just after copy all stuff to the right place. O add folders by hand you can go to the Browser and in every tab you just click in that small black button and choose ADD FOLDER.

You can see a lot of tutorials about Carrara here:

http://www.carrarawiki.com/

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sylki posted Sun, 18 October 2009 at 9:27 AM

Thank you very much indeed! Managed to get it going, now the hard part comes, learning to use it, It  does look very complicated:-) I'm still playing with the pre-sets:-)

Thanks again, you're a star!!

Sylvia

GKDantas posted Sun, 18 October 2009 at 10:15 AM

Thanks Sylvia, isnt that hard... if you have any question just ask!

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sylki posted Sun, 18 October 2009 at 10:57 AM

Thank you for your very kind offer of help, I will certainly give you a shout if I need any help:-) I think that now would be a good time to read the manual :-)

Hugs
Sylvia

GKDantas posted Sun, 18 October 2009 at 12:30 PM

Yes... but take a look at those tutorials in the site that I told. And you can take a look at VTC.com free trainning chapters from Mark Bremmer too. Or sign for the course too.

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bigbearaaa posted Sun, 08 November 2009 at 3:48 PM

Doesn't native content get loaded by the loader into Program Files/DAZ/Carrara 3D Express/Content/Runtime ?
I don't think I've ever needed to do other than give the installer for base content the base Carrara directory name.
Any other content you have in DAZ or Poser can be picked up right from where it is.