The Wizard's Tower, from the Dark Anvil world Time has no place in the Wizards's Tower, No shifting of season, no passing of hour, No waxing of moon, no wither of flower, Past present and future under Sorcerer's power. Joe Bailey. 2006 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Important Note -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This model, The Wizard's Tower, is created and supplied by MDM Ltd. MDM manufacture physical cast and painted versions of fantasy buildings, therefore the use of this file, The Wizard's Tower, to create PHYSICAL MODEL products for sale is prohibited, either by moulding, card construction or producing scale plans for modellers to use. Please read the licence.txt file supplied with this product for confirmation that use of the product for 2d artwork and renders is permitted. If you are at all concerned, please email us for details. support@mdmltd.co.uk All of this product's content was created by Dark Anvil, also known as 'Blacklight Forge', or MDM Limited. To contact us, please email support@mdmltd.co.uk. Main contact, Graeme McMillan. To follow developments of the brand new physical models for tabletop war games, please visit www.mdmltd.co.uk. To be released autumn 2006. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- File List -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- For convenience, you may like to unzip the folder 'Dark Anvil' directly into your C: drive. This should help maintain texture file links in some cases. Any broken links can easily be repaired inside your chosen application. After unzipping the folder 'Dark Anvil', you will find. \Dark_Anvil\Wizards_Tower\obj file and textures\ gora_w_tower.jpg gora_w_tower_bamp.jpg w_tower.jpg w_tower_bamp.jpg w_tower_bampblur.jpg (used in Vue *.vob file for softer bumps) wizards_tower.mtl wizards_tower.obj readme textures.txt Folder 512 x 512 resolution maps (same maps at very low res) Folder 1024 x 1024 resolution maps (same maps at medium res) \Dark_Anvil\Wizards_Tower\For_Poser\Runtime\libraries\props\Dark Anvil\Buildings\ The Wizard's tower.pp2 (created in Poser 6) The Wizard's Tower.png \Dark_Anvil\Wizards_Tower\For_Poser\Runtime\textures\Dark_Anvil\wizards_tower\ gora_w_tower.jpg gora_w_tower_bamp.jpg w_tower.jpg w_tower_bamp.jpg \Dark_Anvil\wizards_tower\For_Vue\ wizards_tower.vob (created in vue5) Readme vue.txt To use this model you need any program that can import *.obj files. Navigate to 'wizards_tower.obj found in the folder 'obj file and textures. Poser set-up has been tested in Poser6, but may work in other versions The Vue *.vob file has been tested in Vue5 Infinite. It should work in other vue5 versions and may work in earlier Vue versions. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Installation and usage Instructions; --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. Unzip the folder to your main drive. 2. In your chosen application, navigate to 'wizards_tower.obj found in the folder 'obj file and textures'. 3. In your applications material editor you may need to link the model to the texture files. 'gora_w_tower' is the rock texture and 'w_tower' is the main building texture. 4. Check the bump settings to get the effect you like. a. In 3d max we recommend reducing bump value to 30. b. In Vue5 we recommend settings around 0.05 c. In poser, try settings between 0.08 and 0.3 d. In Maya, try 0.05 See the 'readme poser.txt' in the 'For_Poser' folder for more information on poser6 See the 'readme vue.txt' in the 'For_Vue' folder for more information on vue5 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Support --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- You are welcome to email us for support, but do bear in mind that we operate UK office hours. You may get a quicker (more knowledgeable!) response by posting in the Renderosity forums. If you do post at Renderosity, be sure to mention Dark Anvil so we can pick up your posts by searching. support@mdmltd.co.uk --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Credits --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The main Dark Anvil team are; Joe Bailey - Original concepts, 2d sketch artist, clay sculptor (for the physical models) Vadim Yudaev - 3d modeller and texture artist Neil Williams - 3d modeller, engineer, scale model specialist Graeme McMillan - Supposedly in charge, but just in awe of everyone else. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dark Anvil models are created by MDM Ltd. MDM is a specialist in the design and production of hand painted scale model buildings for the hobby trade. Visit www.mdmltd.co.uk to see details of our forthcoming range of model buildings for tabletop war gamers. Visit our Renderosity store to get all the latest models for the Dark Anvil world. If you have any trouble/worries/disappointments, then please get in touch and if we can't sort in good time we will arrange a refund. Do mention 'Dark Anvil' in any gallery posting so we can view your efforts. Thanks for buying our product. Graeme McMillan MDM Limited