Carrara Plug-ins

Are your images just a little too perfect? Anything Goos is a dirt and ageing shader plug-in that works with your favorite noise shaders to highlight features of your mesh. Chip the paint from the edges, and fill the creases with grime using Anything Goos.

Need a little depth? When a bump map just won't cut it, the Anything Grooves plug-in provides real geometry from your Carrara shaders. Anything Grooves is displacement mapping for Carrara that works with your existing shaders and can be applied to almost any object with UV coordinates.

The Anything Grows plug-in adds fur to Carrara. Build a field of flowers, a fuzzy bunny, or hairy beast.

Cognito is a mechanical linkages choreographer plug-in for Carrara. It provides the ability to coordinate the motion of objects as if they were connected by gears, axels, or pistons, letting you control the motion of entire chains of objects with a single set of keyframes.

The DCG Importer lets you render simulations and animations from your favorite 3D tools that export sequenced OBJs.

Ground Control is a digital elevation map importer plug-in with support for GridFloat FLT, HiRISE Planetary Data System IMG files, classic USGS DEMs, VistaPro format DEMs, World Machine 32-bit RAW FP, Terragen TER files, Shuttle Radar Topography Mission HGT files, ArcInfo ASCII Grid, text format PGM, and BIL files.

Noir is a Post Render Filter plug-in that can adjust the colour balance of your rendered image and apply a number of other post render effects. Its trademark effect, Noir, makes images more dramatic by darkening the dark areas and lightening the light areas. When applied to the separate colour channels it also emphasizes the colours.

The Parchment plug-in lets you combine an image with your render, producing a composite image. You can apply artistic media textures (such as paper or stone) textures, overlay part of an image onto your render or achieve surreal results with odd combination techniques.

Project Gemini is a collection of tools to assist symmetrical modeling. No more fumbling around with duplicate with symmetry and weld. The Gemini plug-in mirrors your modeling, welds the two halves together, and even cleans up the stray vertices in the middle saving you time and trouble.

Now leverage the power of Carrara's shaders with your lights! The ShaderGel plug-in lets you use procedural shaders as the gel. It features a number of different mapping options and can even interface with Cognito to drive the mapping parameters. Strobe is a shader mixer that can switch between three different input shaders and black, according to a programmed mixing schedule. It makes cyclically changing shaders much easier and can also be controlled by Cognito.

Shader Ops is a collection of shader plug-ins for Carrara that add functionality to every existing Carrara shader. Apply shaders based on real world coordinates, put an end to the limit of 30 tiles, comment what that formula slider does, and adjust the brightness of any shader. These are just a few of the functions provided by Shader Ops.

Shader Ops 2 is a collection of shader plug-ins for Carrara; Light Mangler, Multi Ops, Camera Mapping, and more. Remix your shaders after the lighting is done with Light Mangler. Multi Ops and a new in channel Layers List simplify the shading tree. Camera Mapping opens new avenues for mixing in real world footage or photos.

The Shaders Plus plug-in is a collection of lighting models for Carrara. Bevel your models with a shader, use procedural or projection mapped shaders on a bone animated mesh with Procedural Lock, or compose with images or video using a GI illumination enabled shadow catcher. These are just a few of the powerful lighting tools available in Shaders Plus.

Shoestring Shaders is a versatile collection of powerful shading tools including Desaturate, Iridescence, Supermixer, Weave, Fresnel, Location, Proximity, Lit, Angle, Drip, Spokes, Supermixer Complex, MultiPass Manager and MultiPass Control.

StarBright is a background plug-in that wraps your scene in a globe covered in stars. You can control the number of stars, their size, their pattern, the rotation and elevation of the star dome and the color of the dome itself. While StarBrights effect tends to be fairly subtle, it can add some of the finishing details that turn an ordinary shot into an impressive shot.

Based on the Anything Goos technology, Terrain Tools adds a variety of new tools for shading the intersections of water planes, terrains, and other objects.

Toon! Pro is a cel shader and line renderer plug-in for Carrara. High quality anti-aliased lines, a powerful cel shader, and the ability to combine cel with traditional and even GI rendering makes Toon! Pro a must have tool for the digital cel artist.

Wireframe Pro is a wireframe render and shader plug-in for Carrara. The renderer, based on the same technology that powers Toon! Pro provides high quality wireframe rendering that can be combined with traditional ray tracing or even GI rendering. The Wireframe Pro shader works within Carrara's Texture room as a powerful tool for building your own wireframe shaders. Both tools can pull just the edges you define from the Vertex Modeler and Smart Quads can emulate the quads look for objects that aren't built on quads.

ArchiTools is an advanced building modeler designed for 3D artists. It's UI has been especially conceived to make it intuitive, easy to learn and fun to use. Just a few clicks are necessary to create a complete building, and this new modeler being fully procedural, all its elements can be tuned and modified at any time during the construction process.

Velouté is a powerful procedural texture builder for Carrara. It contains more than 160 basic functions shared by 18 shaders that can be easily combined to create a huge variety of textures. Random Lines, Gradient, Grid, Weave, Tile, and Fractal Noise are some of Velouté's shaders. All of Velouté's shaders implement their own bump mapping which gives much better results than Carrara's default bump.

Primivol contains the following volumetric primitives: Fire, Cloud, Smog, Rising Smoke. Through these primitive, Primivol can also render any 3D shader as a volume, and can alter its shape with a set of modifiers and ramp-off functions. Lighting, self-shadow, density, color and many other parameters are accessible through the UI and can be precisely adjusted and animated.

Baker is a texture baking tool. Using the UV mapping of an object, it can extract flat texture maps, light maps or normal maps from any Carrara shader. Baker can also read ZBrush normal maps.

Deeper is a small rendering engine to produce normal map from a 3D scene.

Replica clones objects in arrays or on existing surfaces, and each clone can even have a randomized or controlled position, scaling, orientation or even shading.

Shaper adds Free Form Deformation capabilities to Carrara. Shaper is a very handy deformer that allows you to deform any geometric object with a cubed grid of points.

Swap can replaces any kind of element in the scene hierarchy by another one: it can replace lights with cameras, cameras with lights, or any objects with another one.

OSGPlug is a free open source OpenSceneGraph exporter for Carrara. Its source code can be used and modified without any restriction. A build for Carrara 6 Windows is available for download but if somebody is in need of an update for another version, I'll be glad to do it.

Jiggle is mainly used to give the fleshier parts of CG women more realistic and natural motion during animations or for some outrageous and silly fun. Unlike a softbody simulator it works as an automated magnet deformer that responds to movement and gravity.

TRACKS and CHAINS makes the difficult task of animating drive chains and tank tracks and other caterpillar vehicles possible by wrapping the links around sprockets or wheels - as well as handling the task of animation.

Contains some simple but useful operations to speed up your workflow when putting a scene together. The DropToFloor, PointAt, JumpHotPointTo and JumpObjectTo commands save time in positioning pieces and parts and the Offset and Rotate commands allow for precise changes in position and orientation.

Comes in the form of a primitive to create the belt and a modifier to turn the wheels. This can be used to make an animated fan belt, drive belt, conveyor belt, escalator etc.

Makes the animation and steering of vehicles easy by rotating their wheels in the right direction and speed as you drive them around the scene.

Is used to create and realistically animate a variety of helical springs.

The MipMapper and AutoMipMapper help to remove moire patterns and twinkle noise in both stills and animations by using a blurry and lower resolution texture when the object is farther away or turned away from the rendering camera.

Is a long and challenging work in progress to bring simple and effective cloth simulations into Carrara. It may not be cutting edge, fast or finished but it can be used for drop cloths and with dynamic costumes when proxy figures are made with simple primitive shapes for faster and reliable collisions and works in all the recent versions of Carrara.

PyCarrara is an alpha-stage Python scripting plugin for Carrara. It allows CG artists to create procedural animations, construct scenes, and drive object motion via audio tracks using custom scripts.

PyCloid is an enhanced particle emitter. Two modes : – standard mode : particle emission from a point or an object surface – deformer mode : the facets of a mesh are converted to particles to simulate object destruction.Emission can be controlled by a shader to have variable particle density over the surface or achieve partial mesh destruction. When using destruction mode, the particles initial velocities are initialized with the mesh facets motion for realistic effect.

A versatile suite of Carrara utilities adding powerful scene commands and procedural shaders. Features include Pose Transfer, Clear Timeline, and the Stack Tweener for streamlined animation, alongside TowardAway, Color Balance, Color Separation, and Color Merge shaders for advanced color control.

The Enhanced Remote Control suite is a set of behavior modifiers and scene commands that work together to add much needed functionality and control to your animation workflow. It provides the basic functionality of Poser’s ERC for creating joint-controlled movement within Carrara. But it also provides so much more, giving you the building blocks to rapidly create advanced, realistic animation. Control them all! Shaders, light values, position, rotation, morph settings – even other modifiers!

Pose Helper simplifies character posing in Carrara with tools for left/right pose symmetry, batch rotation and scale adjustments, and one-click morph or pose zeroing across multiple figures with full undo/redo support.

The Poser Pose Exporter plugin adds a new dimension of compatibility between Carrara and other Poser compatible software packages. This plugin adds the ability to export Poser Pose (PZ2), Animated Poser Pose (PZ2), and Poser-compatible BioVision animation data (BVH) from a single, easy to use function.

A free port of Thomas Luft's Ivy Generator as a native Carrara scene command plugin. Procedurally grows realistic 3D ivy directly across object geometry starting from the object's Hot Point. Includes custom foliage shaders and open-source code. - Supported Geometry: Primitives, splines, metaballs, and vertex objects. - Features: Adjustable plant/leaf growth parameters and custom shaders. - Note: Generates static geometry (non-animated).

This is a pair of utilities to facilitate importing weight-mapped Poser figures into Carrara. This is a multi-step process, and is not guaranteed to work for every figure.