Aery Soul's Charmed Mist for V4 and Alice 1.3 - copyrighted by Aery Soul 2001-2007 ~ August 2007 Created by Aery Soul (www.aerysoul.com). To contact us, and for product support please use the following address: or leave a message on our forum: http://www.aerysoul.com/forum/ Any feedback, suggestion or whatever you may be willing to tell us will be appreciated. For any problem, please, don't hesitate to contact us via e-mail, IM (Aery_Soul on Renderosity) or leaving a message in our product support forum, we'll try to solve it as soon as possible. Thanks for purchasing an Aery Soul product, we really hope you'll enjoy it! To learn out more about Aery Soul's products and projects visit our website and forum section where we post freebies, previews and tutorials. ****************************** Where to find "Charmed Mist" files in your Poser: Character --> AS-CharmedMist: clothes. Pose --> AS-KikAs MATs: clothing styles mats & other MATs Pose/AS-CharmedMist --> Bones Poses: bones MATs and reset poses Pose/AS-CharmedMist --> Clothes MATs: clothing styles mats Pose/AS-CharmedMist --> Morph Ready Poses: Top and Skirt morphs 1-click poses The complete product is split into 2 different products zips, you must install both in order to use it. NOTE to users of pre-5 Poser versions: Charmed Mist package takes advantage of P5 and higher folder structure, in order for the files to display correctly in previous versions you will need to move them to the main directory. NOTES/INSTRUCTIONS -IMPORANT - READ-: - Load Victoria 4 and load the clothes, conform the clothes and use the V4 magnet fit on the clothes to add the JCM magnets/morphs to them. It is VERY IMPORTANT that you have VICTORIA 4 SELECTED before loading each piece of clothing in order for the various JCM morphs to work. - There are several "Helper" morphs for the various clothing pieces to help with poke-through and such (especially with Alice or other custom characters). If you run into any poke-through please remember to check and use these morphs. - THE SKIRT has 10 bones (8 red cubes and 2 red spheres) to help with fitting and movement morphs, just grab them and move around to quickly create movements, cutomize the included movement morphs or adjusting possible poke-through. The 2 back red spheres control the zone corresponding to V4 shin and are particularly useful then the shin bend. There are also 4 additional bones (blue cones), these are the bones that automatically move the skirt when Victoria 4 moves. These should be used to creating movements but if you want to use them always you should USE the VALUES and NOT GRAB them sine they are very sensible and this way you can control them better and easier. - In the figures folder you will also find a version of the skirt without automatic bones: Skirt_Unb (=unboned). This version may be particularly useful if you make great use of movements (either with the included morphs or not) as it allows for more control over the whole Skirt (the cone-bones don't move the skirt automatically). - The TOP includes a FitBelt morph if you use the top with the belt and without using any top movement morphs. - The BELT is supposed to be made of a HARD material, therefore it shouldn't just deform when Vicky moves but should keep it's shape and make more rigid movements. To help mimiking this "hard" behaviour we have included some morphs: Front-Back, Side-side and Up Down. The same stands true for the NECKLACE which includes the following morphs: FrontBack, Sideside, Rotate and UpDown. - If you want to use Alice INJect the morph into V4 and set the Alice fitting morphs to 1 for each piece of clothing. Alice shape is very different from V4 default one, this means some poke-through may happen, simply use the included morphs to correct it when it happens or custom magnets. - Charmed Mist material files are optimized for Poser 7 (that is 5 and above), the clothes include a material shader that may need tweaking in previous versions. The necklace and belt materials are Poser materials and will only work in P5 and above and probably will not (correctly) translate into DAZ Studio. ******************** RENDERING TIPS ******************** IMPORTANT: always remember that the final outcome heavily depends on your lighting and render settings. To P5/P6/P7 users we strongly reccomend the use of the Firefly engine for your final renders, as the result are far better than with the P4 and because it exploits the shaders included in the package; it is also more precise by and large and allows the use of other important features such as raytracing and displacement maps. We also suggest to not use Auto settings but custom Manual ones, for a good outcome of any texture (clothes, skin, hair): - the min shading rate should be set to anything near 0.2 - the pixel sample should be set to at least 6 - the irradiance caching should be set to anything between 75% and 100% (the higher the better) - always leave the USE DISPLACEMENT MAPS CHECKED - always check both the cast shadows and raytracing boxes. ******************** RENDERING TIPS ******************** POSES - POSES - POSES POSES - POSES - POSES POSES - POSES - POSES The folder "AS-CharmedMist/Clothes MATs" includes MAT poses to change the clothes styles, there are 3 different, complete styles you can choose from, each with its unique style but that can also be easily mixed and matched with the other styles included or with other clothing/texture sets you want to use. This product was NOT tested within DAZ Studio, we do not support DAZ Studio at the moment therefore cannot assist with it, some features may not work so if you only use D|S be aware of this and that the product may not be fully compatible (the necklace and belt materials are a Poser shader, they won't "translate" into DAZ Studio). These notes should clear most of your doubts or questions about "Charmed Mist" and its features but should you run into any issues or have any doubt and/or suggestion don't hesitate to contact us, we'll be more than glad to help out. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ All of this product's content was created by As Shanim & Siliphiel of Aery Soul (under the name Aery_Soul as merchant on Renderosity) using the following merchant resources: Personal resources Texture resources available at cgtextures.com (minimal use) Texture resources available at 3d.sk (minimal use) Texture resources available at mayang.com (minimal use) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Open the zip file with WinZip Click EXTRACT Verify that All Files is checked Verify that USE FOLDER NAMES is checked Extract the folder to your Poser directory and Winzip should create the path to the files or \AerySoulInfo\ CharmedMist_README.txt license.TXT Runtime\Geometries\AerySoul\charmedmist\ cm_belt.obj cm_lftfrm_ribbon.obj cm_lftfrm_strap.obj cm_lftshin_ribbon.obj cm_lftshin_strap.obj cm_neckband.obj cm_rgtfrm_ribbon.obj cm_rgtfrm_strap.obj cm_rgtshin_ribbon.obj cm_rgtshin_strap.obj cm_skirt.obj cm_top.obj Runtime\Libraries\Character\AS-CharmedMist\ Belt.cr2 Belt.png ForeArm_Lft.cr2 ForeArm_Lft.png ForeArm_Rgt.cr2 ForeArm_Rgt.png NeckBand.cr2 NeckBand.png Shin_Lft.cr2 Shin_Lft.png Shin_Rgt.cr2 Shin_Rgt.png Skirt.cr2 Skirt.png Thumbs.db Top.cr2 Top.png Runtime\Libraries\Poses\AS-CharmedMist\Bones Poses\ ! DefEdge_skirt.png ! DefEdge_skirt.pz2 ! DefFull_skirt.png ! DefFull_skirt.pz2 ! DefHIDE_skirt.png ! DefHIDE_skirt.pz2 ! Zeroed_skirt.png ! Zeroed_skirt.pz2 Runtime\Libraries\Poses\AS-CharmedMist\Clothes MATs\ Exotic_Belt.png Exotic_Belt.pz2 Exotic_Necklace.png Exotic_Necklace.pz2 Exotic_Skirt.png Exotic_Skirt.pz2 Exotic_Straps.png Exotic_Straps.pz2 Exotic_Top.png Exotic_Top.pz2 Faery_Belt.png Faery_Belt.pz2 Faery_Necklace.png Faery_Necklace.pz2 Faery_Skirt.png Faery_Skirt.pz2 Faery_Straps.png Faery_Straps.pz2 Faery_Top.png Faery_Top.pz2 Mystic_Belt.png Mystic_Belt.pz2 Mystic_Necklace.png Mystic_Necklace.pz2 Mystic_Skirt.png Mystic_Skirt.pz2 Mystic_Straps.png Mystic_Straps.pz2 Mystic_Top.png Mystic_Top.pz2 Runtime\Libraries\Poses\AS-CharmedMist\Morphs Ready Poses\ Sk-All-0.png Sk-All-0.pz2 Sk-BackFloat1.png Sk-BackFloat1.pz2 Sk-BackFloat2.png Sk-BackFloat2.pz2 Sk-EnlargeCenter.png Sk-EnlargeCenter.pz2 Sk-FloatLeft1.png Sk-FloatLeft1.pz2 Sk-FloatRight1.png Sk-FloatRight1.pz2 Sk-FloatRight2.png Sk-FloatRight2.pz2 Sk-FrontUp.png Sk-FrontUp.pz2 Sk-NiceFloat1.png Sk-NiceFloat1.pz2 Sk-NiceFloat2.png Sk-NiceFloat2.pz2 Sk-NiceFloat3.png Sk-NiceFloat3.pz2 Sk-SimpleFloat1.png Sk-SimpleFloat1.pz2 Sk-TotalUp.png Sk-TotalUp.pz2 TRib-All-0.png TRib-All-0.pz2 TRib-Left1.png TRib-Left1.pz2 TRib-Left2.png TRib-Left2.pz2 TRib-Right1.png TRib-Right1.pz2 TRib-Right2.png TRib-Right2.pz2 Top-All-0.png Top-All-0.pz2 Top-AllUp.png Top-AllUp.pz2 Top-Back1.png Top-Back1.pz2 Top-Back2.png Top-Back2.pz2 Top-Back3.png Top-Back3.pz2 Top-FloatUp1.png Top-FloatUp1.pz2 Top-FloatUp2.png Top-FloatUp2.pz2 Top-Front1.png Top-Front1.pz2 Top-Front2.png Top-Front2.pz2 Top-Front3.png Top-Front3.pz2 Top-Left1.png Top-Left1.pz2 Top-Left2.png Top-Left2.pz2 Top-Left3.png Top-Left3.pz2 Top-RandomFloat1.png Top-RandomFloat1.pz2 Top-RandomFloat2.png Top-RandomFloat2.pz2 Top-RandomFloat3.png Top-RandomFloat3.pz2 Top-Right1.png Top-Right1.pz2 Top-Right2.png Top-Right2.pz2 Top-Right3.png Top-Right3.pz2 \Runtime\Textures\AerySoul\charmedmist\ cm_skirt.jpg cm_skirt2nd.jpg cm_skirt2ndB.jpg cm_skirt2ndD.jpg cm_skirt2ndtr.jpg cm_skirt3rd.jpg cm_skirt3rdB.jpg cm_skirt3rds.jpg cm_skirtB.jpg cm_skirtD.jpg cm_skirtSPEC.jpg cm_straps.jpg cm_straps2nd.jpg cm_straps2ndB.jpg cm_straps3rd.jpg cm_straps3rdB.jpg cm_top.jpg cm_top2nd.jpg cm_top2ndB.jpg cm_top2ndD.jpg cm_top2nds.jpg cm_top2ndtr.jpg cm_top3rd.jpg cm_top3rdB.jpg cm_top3rdD.jpg cm_top3rdtr.jpg cm_topB.jpg cm_topD.jpg cm_topSPEC.jpg ŠAery Soul 2001-2007 www.aerysoul.com