Carrara Studio

What works

• Carrara version: 64 bit
  
• Rooms: Assembly, Model, Shader, Render
• Objects: Plants, terrain, hair, replicator
• Rendering: rendered a file previosly created in Carrara 7.2 (non-Pro) in Windows XP 32 bit; it rendered flawless
• File 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. Otherwise the application would crash at rendering or room switching.
  

Workarounds

What was not tested

• Modeling
• Animation

Hardware tested

Graphics:

• GPU:
• Driver:

Additional Comments

Wine-installation (1.5.8. at point of testing) via Fedora-package-management (yum) no additional Wine-packages installed IMPORTANT ========= You need to disable "Preferences -> Imaging, Scratch Disk -> Texture spooling" at first startup of Carrara. After that close Carrara and start again. The application now works.

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! :)