Can I install Carrara manually instead of with DIM?
Sfariah D
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Can I install Carrara without DIM? I am having difficulty with DIM installing it and I do not know what to do.
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Is there a stand-alone installer in your Product Library?
I am notoriously bad about installation issues. However, I believe that you can manually install if you want to. If you have pro, then on the machine that you will run it on you will want to install the program file and the native content files. Do not install any render nodes on the same machine. The render nodes are there if you have more than one computer and want to use the 2nd to supplement renders.
There should be an option in your account to Download the files manually
You'll also need to manually install the additional (Carrara native content files) and any products made for carrara,.
Q: what problem are you having with using DIM ?
it would be best to try to figure that out.. makes life easier.
I installed Carrara manually, on my D drive, in a folder called Carrara. I refuse to have programs on my C drive.
Completely agree with THAT. I had a nightmare when my new machine came (which I love BTW from PC Specialist) and repartitioning was not an option I wanted to mess with. So I have little room on C drive, but masses on E and that is where all my 3D programmes live, with content. Project files I save to an external drive. If you do that, and use DIM, be sure your download folder is also not on your C drive. I was advised by a kind soul here to fix that option. My C drive was filling up after any major spending spree and so I was manually moving them to E for storage (I don't delete purchases after install). So was relieved DIM can be directed to download to E now.
Ooh I hadn't realised that, I might start using Dim if I can get it to set itself up on my D drive. When I had this one built at PC Specialist I had a nice large D drive installed. I then use E and F for backups drives as they are external and can move from PC to PC.
I started doing that when I had my Win2K machine built, back in the day, and had the biggest main drive I could afford installed and partitioned. Having real muliple drives is beter still.
Yes, you can direct DIM to install stuff where you want. Just remember to set the current location as appropriate. I install the Daz programs and content to the D drive. Studio, Carrara, and Bryce stuff each goes to a different folder, cleverly called "Stuff for Carrara" or whatever. I install the video tutorials such as Phil's Carrara series to the F drive. I always check the current installation path before installing.
The current location for DIM installation is at the bottom of the installation tab (after clicking gear in upper right of DIM default program).
Maybe I didn't say that right, Dio. What I meant is that... YES you can download to INSTALL directly to your content locations on a different hard drive. Easy peasy as you have shown above by amending your INSTALLATION path.
It's where the actual ZIP files DOWNLOAD to, and carry on staying if you do not choose to instruct DIM to delete them after installation to their designated content home.
Some people do not accumulate these ZIPs because they delete them, knowing they can always go back to their product library to access them again. I keep ALL of them in case DAZ goes off the air some day.
So here's what I have under DOWNLOADS, next to that is a screenshot of the actual directory with the ZIPs and manifest(?) files.
Then what I have for INSTALLATIONS. (I didn't bother to explain Carrara stuff, but same thing).
I messed up way back and named the two DAZ 3D locations with too similar names (hence the one with a space and one without), but I know the diff... but should have made the directory names more distinct.
If Daz goes away, I will be sad and miss them. Please stay for a long time Daz!
Thanks for all the help. I will be back on my computer after I finish eating my cardboard pizza. Wonder if I have a model of a pizza from Daz or if I can model a cardboard pizza model in Carrara. Of course in Carrara, what is the difference between real pizza and cardboard pizza? In real life it is the quality but how can one model something that looks cheap and tastes not real?
Don't forget to set the paths for 32-bit and 64-bit softeware at the top of the Installation tab if you want to have your software installed there also -- unlike Daz Studio/Poser content, Carrara content by default installs to the same location as the software itself.