What was the last boxed Carrara version containing a printed manual ?
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Amazingly I just managed to pick up a new boxed and sealed version of Carrara 5 Pro (!). The box did feel a bit light, and when I unsealed the plastic wrapping and opened, there was no manual. It did however contain a large fold-out card of Carrara hot keys.. So please what was the last boxed Carrara version containing a printed manual ? Did version 4 contain one ?
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Manuals, hmmm ... brings back some ... never mind.
Not sure but this thread has some related trivia.
https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/302781/carrara-previous-versions-boxed-or-magazine-giveaways
7.2 I think
Thanks for that, but I believe that is an online document and I was referring more to the physical manual which used to ship in the box. I am suspecting Carrara 4 was the last version, but it would be interesting to know.. :)
AFAIK the last printed manual was contained the Carrara version 4 box.
I printed out the one that comes with Carrara 8. All 853 pages of it, plus the cover.
It's a weighty tome in a gigantic three-ring binder, and it's an invaluable resource.
I recently bought the Carrara Studio 3 and Carrara 5 Pro Handbooks from Amazon. They're nice too, but not as helpful and invaluable as my printed out User's Guide Revision G 11 December 2008.
I actually printed that thing out before I bought it - knowing I was going to buy it, so I could get a bit of a start with it.
Amazon shows that they still have both Carrara Studio 3 and Carrara 5 Pro handbooks in stock, if you want them.
The really nice thing about having these handbooks is that they are lessons rather than just instructions. I like both.
Here are some further tips on Learning Carrara:
This forum is probably the best and fastest way to learn, however. Just ask. Someone usually answers pretty quick, and then other's will add to that. Nothing beats experience!
I want to buy this too: Carrara 6 Pro Course, by Mark Bremmer
I watched the Carrara 7 Pro course videos by Mark Bremmer. Excellent!
And I have the Carrara 1 Bible. Unfortunately, I do not have the disk that goes with the Carrara 1 Bible.
Mark Bremmer, PhilW, Mike Moir, Cripeman, GKDantas, Mike DeLaFlor, and so many other formal instruction providers. And Dartanbeck!!! Love them all. But I agree that the best place to get answers is from forum users and from forum posts.
Yes! Carrara 1 Bible comes around in Amazon once in a while too - or at least it used to.
And Dart gets all embarrassed...
I even have a link to it on my site, it's So Good!
Diomede's "No one Asked Me" thread! Awesome place to learn new... everything!
Diomede's Notepad, Sketchpad, and Chilling Pad is also something I follow. Amazing what one can pick up on in there.
Diomede does Really Nice tutorials and lectures in the written form, with illustrations and links. Very cool!
Wacky Modelling ~ In Carrara ~ by Stezza is AWESOME!
I could keep going.
There's also a thing we call: Ask Wendy.
I ask Wendy stuff all the time. She knows Everything. How? Well, she tries it. She does. She tries everything.
I pulled out my Carrara 3 and Carrara 5 Handbooks yesterday. Turned out having less time to delve in as I had originally thought, but I am re-impressed by how cool these books are! Of course, I really Really love the reading material in the Revision G User's Guide. It has a lot of great details about the software and how to use it.
I used to watch PhilW's videos every day - I have so many of them it turned into my favorite TV show.
Being away from Carrara for a while, coming back to it just feels natural - like I never left. Well... that's probably because I didn't... Leave. I just poured all of my attention into learning DS. But even though I can probably still recite each lesson verbatim by now, getting Carrara fired up again just gets me addicted to it - so I'm pulling out those videos again and they're going to be part of my regularly scheduled programming once again!
With Inagoni's plugins going Open Source, and folks looking for tutorials, I immediately went to 3DXtract e-zines and, sure enough... there are at least two tutorials written by the author of Inagoni himself. So when I want to grab some extra inspiration, I also love to pull out these 3DXtract volumes, and also the Carrara 3D Expo magazines, which are still an absolutely Fabulous read and art extravaganza!
Dartanbeck.com was originally intended to be an exploration of making CG videos with a one-artist crew, just to give me a place to illustrate what I'm doing.
It exploded into much more than that before I ever even launched it because I started creating places within it that I can learn from, and then decided to edit it a bit better and make those pages part of the site so other folks might have fun learning too.
Physics & Particles is one such example. It begins with 3DAGE's Carrara 8 First Steps into Physics followed by related Cripeman videos and finally a link to a related tutorial at ShareCG.
Point being, I try to make Dartanbeck.com a friendly resource for anyone who might want to learn the stuff I'm doing. And Carrara just happens to be my primary push. When I can, I try to provide links to things that can help us out along the way. User's Guides, helpful tips, forum threads, products available for free or otherwise, and try also to give some insight as to why these things can be important to filmmaking. But most of this is just as relatable to still art as well.
Carrara Info is a Large section packed with inner pages to help get even more in touch with the ultimate home 3D studio software. It even contains my WIP History of Carrara, which hopefully has a lot of years writing left (hint to Daz 3d!!!) along with a sub page containing the text of Eovia's ad promo for Carrara Studio, their first release since saving Carrara from becoming extinct!
Wow. In looking through all of this older stuff, I just found an original boxed copy of Carrara Studio (Eovia's first release of Carrara) on E-Bay for 84.99 USD! That's more than Carrara 8.5 Pro on most days!
But it comes with a manual!
EDIT: As you can see in the ad promo, the first releases of Carrara Studio came with Amapi 3D ver.5! NURBS!!!
Some came with a limited edition t-shirt. I still have mine.
Awesome!!!! I'm So Jealous!!!
The last printed manual I have is Carrara 5. I think they were pdf's after that.
I still have my Carrara 4 tshirt. I think I got it when I preordered the upgrade.
Beautiful Items, Brian!