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| The Enhance:C plug-in puts hundreds of new shaders at your fingertips. Over 200 new shader functions for Carrara make Enhance:C a must have plug-in for the procedural shader fan. |
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Display
The Enhance:C Display shader adds tools for building LEDs and displays. It is a 3D shader.
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Distort operator
The Enhance:C Distort operator changes the coordinates for its subshader. It is a 2D and 3D shader.
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Distort Turbulence operator
The Enhance:C Distort operator changes the coordinates for its subshader. It is a 2D and 3D shader.
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Fractal
Enhance:C Fractal generates fractal patterns. It is a 3D shader.
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Geometric
Enhance:C Geometric is used for geometric shapes and patterns. It is a 3D shader.
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Noise
The Enhance:C Noise generates over 30 new noise functions. It is a 3D shader.
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Organic 1
Enhance:C Organic 1 adds organic style noise functions. It is a 3D shader.
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Organic 2
Enhance:C Organic 2 adds cellular style noise functions. It is a 3D shader.
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Panel
Enhance:C Panel generates a panel pattern and it's matching grime, rivits, and peeling paint. It is a 2D shader.
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Skin
The Enhance:C Skin shader add shaders geared towards skins and scuffs. It is a 3D shader.
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Space 2D
Enhance:C Space 2D adds pipes and windows to your space or industrial scenes. It is a 2D shader.
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Space 3D
The Enhance:C Space 3D shader bundles functions oriented towards planet shading and subspace disturbences. It is a 3D shader.
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Special FX operator
Enhance:C Special FX is bundle of predefined color gradients.
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Tile
Enhance:C Tile covers patterns, tiles, and weaves. It is a 2D shader.
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Water
The Enhance:C Water shader covers waves, drips, and ripples. It is a 3D shader.
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Wave operator
The Enhance:C Wave operator, changes the output gradient of a child shader.
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Wood
Enhance:C Wood has three new functions for procedurally shading wood. It is a 3D shader.
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Self calculated bumps and bump profile control
 Use a custom profile bump to get just the look you need.
 The Bevel tab.
Each Enhance:C shader does it's own bump calculations for sharper, deeper bumps.
Additionally, you can change the profile of the bump using several presets or Carrara's curve tool.
The bump controls are available on the Bevel tab.
1. The Profile drop down contains a list of profile presets.
2. If Profile drop down contains is set on Custom, you can use the Custom Profile tool to edit the profile.
3. Use the Bump Intensity slider to control the apparent depth of the bump.
4. For those Enhance:C shaders with subshaders, the Subshader Bump Int slider controls how much of the subshader's bump effect is mixed in.
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 Blend subshader.
Unique subshader mixing modes
 Random subshader.
For those Enhance:C shaders that support child shaders, you can choose from two mixing modes to help
randomize the appeareance of the distinct areas.
The default mixing mode is Random Selection.
Each region randomly selects from among the child shaders and displays that shader.
In the sample shown, the Mosiac function from Enhance:C Tile selects one of the five color subshaders.
The subshaders are not restricted to color; the texture shader and other procedurals may be used like any other mixer.
Use the plus button to add another subshader.
The second mixing mode is Blend Two.
In this mode, the output is a random blend of the first two subshaders by region.
All remaining subshaders are ignored.
The Subshader Mixing control is on the Common tab.
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Global mixers
Many of Enhance:C shaders can also be used as global mixers.
There's no need to mix each channel, build your grout, build your tile and mix them with the top level Enhance:C shaders.
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Sample shaders
 Sample shaders.
Enhance:C comes with sample shaders to show how to build up layers using Enhance:C Panel, rough up the edges of bricks with Enhance:C Distort Turbulence
, use color gradients with a simple Enhance:C shader child for complicated appearing effects, and more.
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How do I...
Install Enhance:C?
Extract and copy the files to the extensions or plugins directory.
For Carrara 7.2
On the PC, it is the Carrara 7 Pro\Extensions directory.
If you installed Carrara to the default location, this is
C:\Program Files\DAZ\Carrara 7 Pro\Extensions.
On the Mac, OS X.
- Open the Carrara 7 folder.
- Ctrl-click on the Carrara application and select Show Package Contents.
- In the newly opened Finder window, navigate to Contents\MacOS\Extensions.
- Extract the contents of the ZIP and copy them there.
For Carrara 6.2.1
On the PC, it is the Carrara 6 Pro\Extensions directory.
If you installed Carrara to the default location, this is
C:\Program Files\DAZ\Carrara 6 Pro\Extensions.
On the Mac, OS X.
- Open the Carrara 6 folder.
- Ctrl-click on the Carrara application and select Show Package Contents.
- In the newly opened Finder window, navigate to Contents\MacOS\Extensions.
- Extract the contents of the ZIP and copy them there.
For Carrara 5.1
On the PC, it is the Carrara 5 Pro\Extensions directory.
If you installed Carrara to the default location, this is
C:\Program Files\Eovia\Carrara 5 Pro\Extensions.
On the Mac, OS X PPC.
- Open the Carrara 5 folder.
- Ctrl-click on the Carrara application and select Show Package Contents.
- In the newly opened Finder window, navigate to Contents\MacOS\Extensions.
- Extract the contents of the SIT and copy them there.
On the Mac, OS X Universal Binary.
- Open the Carrara 5 folder.
- Ctrl-click on the Carrara application and select Show Package Contents.
- In the newly opened Finder window, navigate to Contents\MacOS\Extensions.
- Extract the contents of the ZIP and copy them there.
Enter my serial number?
After purchasing Enhance:C you will be emailed a serial number. If you
open a scene with Enhance:C or use Enhance:C in a scene, the Enter
Serial Number window will display. Enter your serial number in the
field provided and click OK to continue. Get starting using Enhance:C?
- Select File|New.
- Select Insert|Sphere.
- With the Sphere selected, switch to the Texture room.
- In the Color channel, click the pop up and select a shader from the Enhance:C group.
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Reviews and 3rd Party Tutorials
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Evaluation Mode
Enhance:C supports an evaluation mode which allows you to try out Enhance:C before purchasing it. When the Enhance:C Enter Serial
Number window is displayed, just click Cancel to go into evaluation mode.
During evaluation mode, Enhance:C will only work for a limited amount of time before you need to close and reopen Carrara.
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Pricing
$59.95 US dollars for a single user license. The single user
license includes the right to use the product with up to 5 render
nodes using Carrara 5.0 Pro or better. Pricing is also
available for a render node site license for use with Grid.
Ordering
Place your order online here
using our secure server. Use the same link for PayPal, credit cards by fax
or phone, purchase orders, and checks.
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