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Carrara EnvironKit - Woodlands

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Product Name: Carrara EnvironKit - Woodlands
Product ID: 16608
Published Artist(s): Dartanbeck
Created By: N/A
Release Date: 2013-07-14

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Woodlands is set up as a bunch of ready-to-use preset scenes as well as a complete outdoor scene construction kit. It includes 42 full scene presets which offer various options and styles to choose from, depending upon your needs. Whether you're looking to build your own forested path, starting with the base scene and it's full lighting and environmental controls then adding preset blocks of wooded nature, perhaps an individual plant, tree or deadwood - or maybe what you really want is a scene that has already been put together, so all you have to do is to bring in your characters and render - this kit was designed to meet those needs.

Woodlands was also designed to show alternate methods for building full scenes on your own. The kit includes presets designed to help you to make 360 degree background maps for use in many new scenes to come, with immediate rendering of the entire background, no matter the camera angle. As an added bonus, an animated backdrop scene is included, along with the moving camera that works with it, to help show how to make those as well.

Woodlands begins from a base of a central primary terrain surrounding the center of the scene and provides a complete environmental controls setup. These controls include helpful cameras, light rigs, a cloud rig and brief instructions in the Carrara interface for each. There are two more distant terrains to chose from - which determine how far you can see to the horizon. Each of the terrains work with any of the three full terrain shaders, which range from a basic procedural shader to leafy forest bottom mapped with beautiful bump and highlights built in. A stream runs in towards - and then past the scene's center using a replicated Ocean primitive, which is set up already to follow the wind for animated shots. Beyond all of that, you get to choose from using a Realistic Sky preset or one that has a map loaded into its Background feature - which uses a spherical image rendered from scenes made using this kit!

Instructions, both video and written, help to explain how to save resources while creating fully realized and complex scenes using the kit. I know that you'll enjoy using and/or building with this kit for many, many years to come!

In this video, I'll explain as I build a new scene from the base scene, using DAZ 3D's Palenque Ruins as the centerpiece: http://youtu.be/SRMNAE5KWD0

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Installation Packages

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  • 2 Core

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Resolved Issues

  • 2015-01-19 - Corrected installer issue.
  • 2015-01-02 - Updated to 2 installers to resolve large installer issue.

Known Issues

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