Carrara Studio

What works

• all rooms (Assembly, Model, Storyboard, Shader, Render)
• Objects (plants, terrain)
• Functions (surface replication)
• Rendering
• File save/load
  

What does not

• texture spooling (you need to disable this in "Preferences -> Imaging, Scratch Disk" at first startup of Carrara to be able to use the application)
  
• 64-bit. created 64-bit wine (from source), installer ran fine, application hangs on startup.
  

Workarounds

What was not tested

There are too many capabilities to list exhaustively. I tried to cover basics, things like caustics not tested.

Haven't yet tested loading of poser content, plugins/extensions or animation

Hardware tested

Graphics:

• GPU:
• Driver:

Additional Comments

VERY IMPORTANT Disabled "texture spooling" in "Preferences -> Imaging, Scratch Disk" to be able to use the application. Carrara infrequently has lengthy (>5 sec but less than a minute) hangs

Install application
Install the Carrara 64-bit application as you usually would under Windows. I used the »Wine FileManager« and simply started the

• Carrara_8.1.0.xxx_Win64.exe

which came in the provided download you got from DAZ 3D. Follow the instructions of the setup as you would under Windows and let it finish.


First start
It is very important to make a change in the »Preferences« of Carrara at first startup. Otherwise the application would crash when rendering or switching to other Carrara-rooms. So go to

• File > Preferences > Imaging, Scratch Disk

and disable

• Spool Texture on Disk

Click »OK« and close Carrara.


Start Carrara again
Everything works fine now. Happy rendering! :)