COPYRIGHT: Easy!AS, Copyright Gabriel Marti Blanco ©2006 all rights reserved ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ WHAT IS Easy!AS? Easy!AS (c) is the easy way to make WATER, GLASS, MIRROR or SOAP BUBBLE in your Poser® 5 or 6 scene. If you have tried Poser's water and mirror materials, you know why I've created this pack. This is really BETTER! Select your prop or figure, apply the material and you're done. Your Water, Glass, Mirror or Soap Bubble will look like in real world. Objects immerse in water will look deformed, like in real world. Objects behind glass will look deformed, like in real world. Objects will be mirrored with quality. Your soap bubble will have colors that move with frame number. It's all very close to real world. * You must have raytracing turned ON! * Register by sending an e-mail to gabriel@animastudio.com.br and you'll receive information on future upgrades. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ CONTENT CREATION: All of this product's content was created by Gabriel Marti Blanco. Gabriel Marti Blanco - gabriel@animastudio.com.br - www.animastudio.com.br ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ USER GUIDE: This is an abstract of the user Guide. Please read Easy!ASguide (pdf or doc). It can be found on the zip file under \Runtime\ or after install, under \Poser #\Runtime\ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ CONTENT: Content of Easy!AS (c) pack: Easy!AS comes on a zip file that contains: • under Runtime\libraries\materials\Easy!AS - Glass(Skin)P5.mt5 - Material that simulates a film of glass, a surface, not filled. Poser5. - Glass(Skin)P6.mt5 - Material that simulates a film of glass, a surface, not filled. Poser6. - Glass(Solid)P5.mt5 - Material that simulates a filled object of glass. Poser5. - Glass(Solid)P6.mt5 - Material that simulates a filled object of glass. Poser6. - Mirror.mt5 - Material that simulates a mirror. Poser5 or 6. - SoapBubbleP5.mt5 - Material that simulates a soap bubble, colors move on frame count. Poser5. - SoapBubbleP6.mt5 - Material that simulates a soap bubble, colors move on frame count. Poser6. - WaterP5.mt5 - Material that simulates water. Poser5. - WaterP6.mt5 - Material that simulates water. Poser6. - WaterBubbleP5.mt5 - Material that simulates a water bubble, no colors. Poser5. - WaterBubbleP6.mt5 - Material that simulates a water bubble, no colors. Poser6. all the above have their png files, these are the images you see inside Poser, in Easy!AS material library. • under Runtime: - Easy!ASguide.pdf - user guide in Adobe Acrobat® format; - Easy!ASguide.doc - user guide in Microsoft Word® format. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ NEEDS: Needs Poser 5 or Poser 6, with FireFly and raytracing turned ON. Uses diferent nodes for Poser5 and Poser6. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ INSTALL: • Agree that you are a licensee of this pack (Easy!AS) and will NOT sell, distribute, give or allow that someone takes it. Easy!AS is copyrighted, read the license agreement "license.txt" after all. • Unzip or explore the pack Easy!AS.zip • copy the unziped "Runtime" directory directly to your "Poser 6" or "Poser 5" directory --- OR --- copy the unziped "libraries" directory to a Runtime directory you want (if you have more than one**) • That's it. You're done. • It's very important to read the Easy!AS user Guide! ** Poser 5 and 6 allow you to create many Runtime directories so you can organize your content. Read Poser's User Guide to know how. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ HOW TO USE: • To use Easy!AS: 1) start Poser®, make a scene the way you want; 2) select the prop or figure you want to become Water, Mirror, Glass or Bubble; 3) go to material room; 4) browse the material library to find Easy!AS and choose Water, Mirror, Glass or Bubble; If you have Poser5, choose P5. If you have Poser6, choose P6 (best) or P5; 5) return to pose room; 6) turn raytracing on (Firefly renderer) on Render options; <<<<<<<< IMPORTANT !!! <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< 7) render. • Water: To make a pool, place a plane surface (cloth plane on props) where you want the surface or water. Then apply the Easy!AS Water material to that plane. (P6 only for Poser6). Everything behind that plane will be "submerse on water" and will be distorted. You can make almost anything become water. If you want a "water woman" (or man), go to material room, select any (one by one) part of your character and apply the Easy!AS Water material. To change the color of water, change “refraction_color”. • Mirror: To make a mirror, place a plane surface (cloth plane on props) where you want your mirror. Go to material room and apply the Easy!AS Mirror material. (P6 only for Poser6). To change the color of mirror, change “reflection_color”. • Glass: You have two kind of Glass: "filled" and "skin". If you have a solid ball of glass, or something that is "filled" of glass, you'll use "filled". If you have something that has a surface of glass, filled with other material, you'll usually choose "skin". (P6 only for Poser6). Some examples of "skin": lamp bulb, jar, botle, window etc. Some examples of "filled": magnifying glass, lenses etc. To change the color of glass, change “refraction_color”. ADVANCED: What if You want a fish bowl? Well, you have to make two objects. One is the glass bowl (skin!) and inside you'll place the water object. • Soap Bubble: Place a sphere prop on your scene, go to material room and apply Easy!AS SoapBubble. (P6 only for Poser6). It has a node attached to the frame number, so it will automaticaly modify the format and position of colors when running an animation. • Water Bubble: Place a sphere prop on your scene, go to material room and apply Easy!AS WaterBubble. (P6 only for Poser6). This bubble is not colored. ADVANCED: If you need a WATER "SKIN" (Film of water) you can use this material. The idea is the same as explained in Glass skin. >>> ALWAYS TURN ON FIREFLY AND RAYTRACING (sometimes you'll need to increase the number of raytrace bounces) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ QUESTIONS? Please read the included user Guide (..\Poser #\Runtime\Easy!ASguide. pdf or doc). ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ SUGGESTIONS? Feel free to send me an e-mail with your suggestions on Easy!AS. Evolution is a must. E-mail to gabriel@animastudio.com.br and you'll receive information on future upgrades. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ All the pack was designed to be the simplest possible but allowing the maximum of power (easy set, fast render and beautiful results). ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Thanks to: • You - for beeing a licensee of Easy!AS. • Poser ® - by Curious Labs / e-frontier - if there was no Poser, no reason to do Easy!AS for Poser! • Renderosity ® - for selling the licenses of Easy!AS. • GOD - for life.