Animal Playground
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Copyright © 2008 by Ralf Sesseler. All rights reserved.

Release: 23.09.2008, Version 1.0
Author: Ralf Sesseler
home: d3d.sesseler.de

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Description
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The animal playground is a set of playground toys looking like animals.

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System Requirements
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Poser 5 or higher, DAZ Studio
The product was tested on MS Windows only, but may also work on Mac.

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Ownership Statement
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All of the content in this package was created by Ralf Sesseler,
and may include derivatives of the following merchant resources:
- image*after

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Required Products
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Installation
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Unzip the ZIP-archive to the Poser library directory you like.
The folder Content has to be moved or extracted to the DAZ Studio folder.

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Usage
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See the file license.txt for usage rights.

General
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The swings can be posed in the top rope actor.
The spring rockers and the snake can be posed in the body actor.
The parts of the pentagon may be hidden to reduce the scene size when using
  depth map shadows and to reduce work load.

Poser
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All materials use advanced shader tree settings. Colors and other features
  may be modified in the material room.
The plastic materials load white, you can set any color at diffuse color.
The metal and transparent plastic materials render better with raytracing on
  and at least 2 ray bounces for raytraced reflections.
The sand and grass materials use displacement.
The sand material may show artefacts on render. Increasing the scale factor
  of the Granite node should eliminate them.

DAZ Studio
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Due to the incompatibility of Poser and DS material settings, you have to
adjust most materials after loading the figure or prop in DS. You can use
the included DS material settings, which are applied to the selected materials.
- MetalEnvironment: metallic surface using a reflection map
- MetalReflect: metallic surface with real reflections (requires a sky dome)
- Plastic: plastic surface (this setting can be applied to any material;
  it does not change the color or image map)
- RopeAdjust: sets the color and adjusts the bump strength for the ropes
- Sand: sand texture with displacement

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Package content
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You will find the package content in the following Poser/DS libraries:
- Scene: complete playground scene
- Runtime\Libraries\Character\AnimalPlayground: toys with multiple parts
- Runtime\Libraries\Props\AnimalPlayground: toys with a single part
- Runtime\Libraries\Materials\AnimalPlayground: Poser materials
- Content\Materials\AnimalPlayground: DAZ Studio materials

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Files
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ReadMe:
	AnimalPlayground.txt
	license.txt

Scene:
	AnimalPlayground.pzz

Runtime\Geometries\D3D\Playground:
	APG_Bird.obj
	APG_Caterpillar.obj
	APG_Dinosaur.obj
	APG_Dolphin.obj
	APG_Elephant.obj
	APG_Fish.obj
	APG_FishSand.obj
	APG_Giraffe.obj
	APG_Horse.obj
	APG_Octopus.obj
	APG_Pentagon.obj
	APG_Shark.obj
	APG_Snake.obj
	APG_Turtle.obj

Runtime\Libraries\character\AnimalPlayground:
	Bird.crz
	Bird.png
	Dolphin.crz
	Dolphin.png
	Giraffe.crz
	Giraffe.png
	Horse.crz
	Horse.png
	Pentagon.crz
	Pentagon.png
	Shark.crz
	Shark.png
	Snake.crz
	Snake.png

Runtime\Libraries\Materials\AnimalPlayground:
	Body_Giraffe.mz5
	Body_Giraffe.png
	Body_Shark.mz5
	Body_Shark.png
	Grass.mz5
	Grass.png
	Metal.mz5
	Metal.png
	Metal_Matte.mz5
	Metal_Matte.png
	Metal_Rusty.mz5
	Metal_Rusty.png
	Metal_Shiny.mz5
	Metal_Shiny.png
	Plastic.mz5
	Plastic.png
	Plastic_Cloudy.mz5
	Plastic_Cloudy.png
	Plastic_Transparent.mz5
	Plastic_Transparent.png
	Rope_Giraffe.mz5
	Rope_Giraffe.png
	Rope_Horse.mz5
	Rope_Horse.png
	Sand.mz5
	Sand.png
	Sand_Map.mz5
	Sand_Map.png
	Sand_Wet.mz5
	Sand_Wet.png
	Wood.mz5
	Wood.png
	Wood_Dark.mz5
	Wood_Dark.png
	Wood_DarkV.mz5
	Wood_DarkV.png
	Wood_Light.mz5
	Wood_Light.png
	Wood_LightV.mz5
	Wood_LightV.png
	Wood_Red.mz5
	Wood_Red.png
	Wood_RedV.mz5
	Wood_RedV.png
	WoodV.mz5
	WoodV.png

Runtime\Libraries\Props\AnimalPlayground:
	Caterpillar.png
	Caterpillar.ppz
	Dinosaur.png
	Dinosaur.ppz
	Elephant.png
	Elephant.ppz
	Fish.png
	Fish.ppz
	Octopus.png
	Octopus.ppz
	Turtle.png
	Turtle.ppz

Runtime\Reflection Maps:
	D3D_Reflect_Outside.jpg

Runtime\textures\D3D\Playground:
	APG_Displacement.jpg
	APG_Sand.jpg
	Giraffe_Body.png
	Giraffe_Rope.jpg
	Horse_Rope.jpg
	Shark_Body.png

Content\Materials\AnimalPlayground:
	MetalEnvironment.ds
	MetalEnvironment.ds.png
	MetalReflect.ds
	MetalReflect.ds.png
	Plastic.ds
	Plastic.ds.png
	RopeAdjust.ds
	RopeAdjust.ds.png
	Sand.ds
	Sand.ds.png