Adding Presets

Introduction

Basics

Tutorials

Planting a tree

Making a shader

Adding wind
Adding presets

Reference

Tree

Environment

TDD file format

There are several ways to make additional preset trees. These trees can be reused again later in Carrara.


	Method 1: Save a tree to the object browser

Carrara has the ability to save any trees you create into the object browser, located in the drawer on the left side of your screen.

To do this, create a tree, and return to the Assemble room.

Next, open up the Sequencer drawer at the bottom of the screen. Also open up the Object Browser drawer on the left side of the screen.

Drag from the TreeDruid row in the Sequencer...

Drag from here

...to the My Objects section of the object browser.

Object browser

When the File Info dialog opens, you can give this particular tree a name.

Give it a name

Voila! It's now in your Objects Browser, and you can drag the tree into your scene for reuse later.

Object Browser, after


	Method 2: Edit the TDD files directly

The TDD files, which are located in the Presets directory, can be edited using an ordinary text editor. Although this is not recommended, it is possible to do, if you're very careful.

Editing TDD files by hand can cause Tree Druid for Carrara to crash, if the wrong values are used.

See the Reference portion of this User Guide, for additional details on the TDD file format.

Editing TDD files by hand


	Method 3: Use Tree Druid (standalone) to create TDD files

We won't go into detail on this method here. The standalone version of Tree Druid creates and edits TDD files, using a powerful graphical editor. The resulting TDD files can be used as presets for Tree Druid for Carrara. The standalone version is available separately for Windows only, at the Zenstar website.

Editing TDD files using TD_SA