====================================================================== ************************************************************ *Product Name: Photo Props: Ancient Candles *Copyright 7/1 2016 *By: ShaaraMuse3D *Contact: Renderosity Sitemail ************************************************************ Enjoy 12 photo-realistic candle props, with molten and dripping wax. Each candle comes with a wick and flame, and the flame has a material preset which can turn it on and off. The candles also come with several color options each. The texture resolution is high, 2048x4048 for the candles, and 4096x4096 for the candle plate, enough for high detail closeups, and the polygon count is small enough to be able to use many of them, and in combination with other props. The materials have tranclucency set up, to let some light through. By default, the value is set to 0, but as you light up the scene you can experiment with it and increase it as you want, until you get the right amount of desired glow. Depending on the distance, you may also adjust the bump strength, depending on how smooth you want them to be. Lights are not included, but the Readme contains a guide on how to set up the most optimum ligths with the candles, and use them in conjunction with light sets you already have. Please note that this product is made primarily for poser, due to the use of more specific nodes in the material room, such as ambience and translucency. Theoretically this is easy to apply in other 3d programs as well, such as Daz Studio or Vue, but no special materials have been made for these programs, so even though they can be opened and loaded without problems, some material conversion may be needed.x -------------------------------------- System Requirements: Poser 6 or higher, Daz Studio, any program that opens .obj files -------------------------------------- Installation Instructions: Unzip the files into your poser directory. To open a a prop, you go to props, then into the ShaaraMuse3D folder and then into the Scenery and PP_bambochimes folder. To apply a material, go to materials, and then into the ShaaraMuse3D folder and into the PP_bambochimes folder. For the Daz materials, unzip the folder where you have your Daz content stored. -------------------------------------- Usage Tips or Limitations: ********************************* ** Setting up lights in Poser: ** ********************************* In order to use the lights in the best way for the candle, point-lights are recommended, with certain kinds of settings. You can use only point lights, but it often works better if you have some sort of other lights for the room too, such as a subtle IBL light. 1. For each candle with the flame on, create a light and set it to "point" in properties 2. Give it a small shadow blur radius value. 0 tends to be unnaturally sharp. 0.1-0.3 tends to work pretty well. 3. Attenuation is important. You usually don't want the candle light to be too intense far away from the candle, so set attenuation to "Inverse Linear" and you will get a more sharp light at the center. This also means that it can get really bright, so the intensity in the parameters may need to be lowered quite a bit. In the promo renders I used an intensity of 2.5 If you are using an existing light set as a base, you may want to lower the intensity of all those lights enough to get the desired darkness of the room first, depending on how dominant you want the candles to be in lighting up the scene. ****************************** ** Merchant resources used: ** ******************************* - My own photos and textures ************************ * General Stuff * ************************ Templates for creating textures can be found in the Templates folder. As far as the legal stuff goes, see the renderosity license txt file. But as a general rule, use it however you want in your personal or commercial renders, just dont redistribute the package, in whole or in part, to make a competing product! Happy renderings! -------------------------------------- Files Included in the Product: ..Documentation\ PP_AncientCandles_Readme.txt RENDEROSITY-LICENSE.txt ..Templates\ShaaraMuse3D\Scenery\PP_AncientCandles\ Flame.jpg PP_AC_Candle01.jpg PP_AC_Candle02.jpg PP_AC_Candle03.jpg PP_AC_Candle04.jpg PP_AC_Candle05.jpg PP_AC_CandleGroupC.jpg wick.jpg ..Runtime\Geometries\ShaaraMuse3D\Scenery\PP_AncientCandles\ PP_AC_Candle01.obj PP_AC_Candle01_Sml.obj PP_AC_Candle02.obj PP_AC_Candle02_Sml.obj PP_AC_Candle03.obj PP_AC_Candle03_Sml.obj PP_AC_Candle04.obj PP_AC_Candle04_Sml.obj PP_AC_Candle05.obj PP_AC_Candle05_Sml.obj PP_AC_CandleGroup.obj PP_AC_CandleGroup_Sml.obj ..Materials\ShaaraMuse3D\Scenery\PP_AncientCandles\ Flame_Off.mc6 Flame_Off.png Flame_On.mc6 Flame_On.png PP_AC_Candle01_Blue.mc6 PP_AC_Candle01_Blue.png PP_AC_Candle01_Brown.mc6 PP_AC_Candle01_Brown.png PP_AC_Candle01_Green.mc6 PP_AC_Candle01_Green.png PP_AC_Candle01_Purple.mc6 PP_AC_Candle01_Purple.png PP_AC_Candle01_Teal.mc6 PP_AC_Candle01_Teal.png PP_AC_Candle02_BluePurple.mc6 PP_AC_Candle02_BluePurple.png PP_AC_Candle02_GreenPurple.mc6 PP_AC_Candle02_GreenPurple.png PP_AC_Candle02_TealPurple.mc6 PP_AC_Candle02_TealPurple.png PP_AC_Candle03_Green.mc6 PP_AC_Candle03_Green.png PP_AC_Candle03_Purple.mc6 PP_AC_Candle03_Purple.png PP_AC_Candle03_Red.mc6 PP_AC_Candle03_Red.png PP_AC_Candle03_Teal.mc6 PP_AC_Candle03_Teal.png PP_AC_Candle04_Blue.mc6 PP_AC_Candle04_Blue.png PP_AC_Candle04_Green.mc6 PP_AC_Candle04_Green.png PP_AC_Candle04_Purple.mc6 PP_AC_Candle04_Purple.png PP_AC_Candle04_Red.mc6 PP_AC_Candle04_Red.png PP_AC_Candle05_Blue.mc6 PP_AC_Candle05_Blue.png PP_AC_Candle05_Green.mc6 PP_AC_Candle05_Green.png PP_AC_Candle05_Purple.mc6 PP_AC_Candle05_Purple.png PP_AC_Candle05_Red.mc6 PP_AC_Candle05_Red.png PP_AC_Candle05_Teal.mc6 PP_AC_Candle05_Teal.png PP_AC_CandleGroup.mc6 PP_AC_CandleGroup.png ..Runtime\Libraries\Props\ShaaraMuse3D\Scenery\PP_AncientCandles\ PP_AC_Candle01.png PP_AC_Candle01.pp2 PP_AC_Candle01_Small.png PP_AC_Candle01_Small.pp2 PP_AC_Candle02.png PP_AC_Candle02.pp2 PP_AC_Candle02_Small.png PP_AC_Candle02_Small.pp2 PP_AC_Candle03.png PP_AC_Candle03.pp2 PP_AC_Candle03_Small.png PP_AC_Candle03_Small.pp2 PP_AC_Candle04.png PP_AC_Candle04.pp2 PP_AC_Candle04_Small.png PP_AC_Candle04_Small.pp2 PP_AC_Candle05.png PP_AC_Candle05.pp2 PP_AC_Candle05_Small.png PP_AC_Candle05_Small.pp2 PP_AC_CandleGroup.png PP_AC_CandleGroup.pp2 PP_AC_CandleGroup_Small.png PP_AC_CandleGroup_Small.pp2 ..Runtime\Textures\ShaaraMuse3D\Scenery\PP_AncientCandles\ PP_AC_Candle_Flame.jpg PP_AC_Candle_Flame_Amb.jpg PP_AC_Candle_Flame_TR.jpg PP_AC_Candle01_Blue.jpg PP_AC_Candle01_Brown.jpg PP_AC_Candle01_D.jpg PP_AC_Candle01_Green.jpg PP_AC_Candle01_Purple.jpg PP_AC_Candle01_Teal.jpg PP_AC_Candle02_BluePurple.jpg PP_AC_Candle02_D.jpg PP_AC_Candle02_GreenPurple.jpg PP_AC_Candle02_TealPurple.jpg PP_AC_Candle03_D.jpg PP_AC_Candle03_Green.jpg PP_AC_Candle03_Purple.jpg PP_AC_Candle03_Red.jpg PP_AC_Candle03_Teal.jpg PP_AC_Candle04_Blue.jpg PP_AC_Candle04_D.jpg PP_AC_Candle04_Green.jpg PP_AC_Candle04_Purple.jpg PP_AC_Candle04_Red.jpg PP_AC_Candle05_Blue.jpg PP_AC_Candle05_D.jpg PP_AC_Candle05_Green.jpg PP_AC_Candle05_Purple.jpg PP_AC_Candle05_Red.jpg PP_AC_Candle05_Teal.jpg PP_AC_CandleGroup_Blue.jpg PP_AC_CandleGroup_D.jpg