Aery Soul's Body Jewels for V4/A4/Elite and Alice 2.0 - copyrighted by Aery Soul 2001-2008 ~ November 2008 Created by As Shanim & Siliphiel of 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/board/ 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 our products and projects visit our website and forum section where we post freebies, previews and tutorials. ****************************** USAGE terms/restrictions (additional to Renderosity license): "This product is for creating your own works of art for commercial or personal use. The product is protected by copyright in both the design and mesh. This means that you cannot redistribute the mesh or any part of it, in any other format, and you cannot recreate this outfit in any digital or solid, tangible form." ****************************** Where to find "Body Jewels" files in your Poser: Character --> AS-BodyJewels: all body jewels figures Pose --> AS-BodyJewels Pose/AS-BodyJewels --> Fake Reflection: jewel materials with fake reflection Pose/AS-BodyJewels --> Real Reflection: jewels materials with real reflection (=longer rendering times!!!!) NOTE to users of pre-5 Poser versions: Body Jewels 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 folder/directory. NOTES/INSTRUCTIONS -IMPORTANT - READ-: - Load Victoria 4 and load the jewels, conform the jewels and use the V4 magnet fit on the jewels to add the JCM magnets/morphs to them. It is VERY IMPORTANT that you have VICTORIA 4 SELECTED before loading each piece of jewelry in order for the various JCM morphs to work properly and automatically. - Preferably USE THE MORPHS in the BODY part, however since these jewels only have one part you can also set them in the single body parts (such as shin, shoulder etc.) but MAKE sure you don't forget some morphs active that may cause poke-through. - There are several helpful morphs for the various jewelry pieces to help with poke-through and with fitting to custom characters or for particular occurrences such as when the legs bend etc. If you run into any poke-through please remember to check and use these morphs or, in case they are not enough, use custom Poser magnets or D|S D-Forms. - If you need more morphs to make the jewels fit your custom character you can either use Lyrra's or Netherworks magnet fitting sets or "Morphing Clothes" by Dimension 3D (Renderosity marketplace). - All pieces MUST be CONFORMED to VICTORIA 4 in order for the MATs "ALL" to work. It's a python script and it requires all pieces being conformed for working properly! "ALL" MATs: the material poses folders for metal (fake and real) and jewels include both simple mats (you have to select each piece and use the mat on each one after the other) and ALL mats which set the material for all the pieces at once. These "ALL" mats work through a python script which was tested in Poser 7 and Poser Pro. In case you are using previous versions or you have run into any problem using python scrips before we suggest to save your work before using these MATs so you won't lose any data. In case you run into any issues using this python simply use the simple MAT poses and change the materials by selecting each piece of jewelry. - TEXTURES: Please note the jewels are POSER MATERIAL ONLY, D|S users can check this thread for a good list of free DAZ Studio materials they can use alternatively: http://www.aerysoul.com/board/showthread.php?t=1757 (see also below for more D|S users tips). - If you want to use Alice INJect the morph into V4 and set the Alice fitting morphs to 1 for each piece of jewelry. Alice shape is very different from V4 default one, this means some poke-through may happen more easily, simply use the included morphs to correct it when it happens or custom magnets, you should also check Alice fix morphs because she has several that are useful to adjust poke-through (for example for the front thighs when the legs are bent). - Body Jewels material files are optimized for Poser 7 (that is 5 and above), the jewels include a material shader that may need tweaking in previous versions and/or in DAZ Studio (metals are mostly Poser nodes although a reflection is included). ******************** RENDERING TIPS ******************** IMPORTANT: always remember that the final outcome heavily depends on your lighting and render settings. To P5/P6/P7 users we strongly recommend 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 (jewels, 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 ******************** DAZ STUDIO USERS, READ HERE: This product was NOT TESTED IN DAZ Studio, we do not support DAZ Studio at the moment therefore cannot directly assist with it, some features may not work properly so if you only use D|S be aware of this and that the product may not be fully compatible (jewels are Poser materials only, see this thread for D|S shaders downloads:http://www.aerysoul.com/board/showthread.php?t=1757 and here for Classic Fantasy compatible presets by Varnayrah: http://www.aerysoul.com/board/showthread.php?t=2871). We have several customers that successfully uses our products in D|S and one of Aery Soul admins, JonnyRay, is also a DAZ Studio user and expert. For help, tips, questions and even shader and material presets you can check our D|S forum to look for help or post questions: http://www.aerysoul.com/board/forumdisplay.php?f=20 These notes should clear most of your doubts or questions about "Body Jewels" 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). The included python script to change the material for all the metal pieces and jewels at once was created by Basil Gass aka semidieu ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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\ AS-BodyJewels_README.txt license.TXT Runtime\Geometries\AerySoul\bodyjewel\ bw_lftarm_jewel.obj bw_lfthip_jewel.obj bw_lftoutershin_jewel.obj bw_lftshin_jewel.obj bw_lftshldr_jewel.obj bw_lftthigh_jewel.obj bw_lftthighin_jewel.obj bw_lfttorso_jewel.obj bw_rgtarm_jewel.obj bw_rgthip_jewel.obj bw_rgtoutershin_jewel.obj bw_rgtshin_jewel.obj bw_rgtshldr_jewel.obj bw_rgtthigh_jewel.obj bw_rgtthighin_jewel.obj bw_rgttorso_jewel.obj Runtime\Libraries\Character\AS-BodyJewels\ Lft_Arm.cr2 Lft_Arm.png Lft_Hip.cr2 Lft_Hip.png Lft_OuterShin.cr2 Lft_OuterShin.png Lft_Shin.cr2 Lft_Shin.png Lft_Shldr.cr2 Lft_Shldr.png Lft_Thigh.cr2 Lft_Thigh.png Lft_Thigh_In.cr2 Lft_Thigh_In.png Lft_Torso.cr2 Lft_Torso.png Rgt_Arm.cr2 Rgt_Arm.png Rgt_Hip.cr2 Rgt_Hip.png Rgt_OuterShin.cr2 Rgt_OuterShin.png Rgt_Shin.cr2 Rgt_Shin.png Rgt_Shldr.cr2 Rgt_Shldr.png Rgt_Thigh.cr2 Rgt_Thigh.png Rgt_Thigh_In.cr2 Rgt_Thigh_In.png Rgt_Torso.cr2 Rgt_Torso.png Runtime\Libraries\Poses\AS-BodyJewels\FakeReflection\ !-Crystal.png !-Crystal.pz2 !-DarkShiny.png !-DarkShiny.pz2 !-Gold.png !-Gold.pz2 !-Metal.png !-Metal.pz2 !-MetalDark.png !-MetalDark.pz2 !-MetalRuined.png !-MetalRuined.pz2 !-Platinum.png !-Platinum.pz2 ALL instr.png ALL instr.pz2 ALL Crystal.png ALL Crystal.pz2 ALL DarkShiny.png ALL DarkShiny.pz2 ALL Gold.png ALL Gold.pz2 ALL Metal.png ALL Metal.pz2 ALL MetalDark.png ALL MetalDark.pz2 ALL MetalRuined.png ALL MetalRuined.pz2 ALL Platinum.png ALL Platinum.pz2 Runtime\Libraries\Poses\AS-BodyJewels\RealReflection\ !-Crystal.png !-Crystal.pz2 !-DarkShiny.png !-DarkShiny.pz2 !-Gold.png !-Gold.pz2 !-Metal.png !-Metal.pz2 !-MetalDark.png !-MetalDark.pz2 !-MetalRuined.png !-MetalRuined.pz2 !-Platinum.png !-Platinum.pz2 ALL instr.png ALL instr.pz2 ALL Crystal.png ALL Crystal.pz2 ALL DarkShiny.png ALL DarkShiny.pz2 ALL Gold.png ALL Gold.pz2 ALL Metal.png ALL Metal.pz2 ALL MetalDark.png ALL MetalDark.pz2 ALL MetalRuined.png ALL MetalRuined.pz2 ALL Platinum.png ALL Platinum.pz2 Runtime\Textures\aerysoul\bodyjewel\ bdjw_refl.jpg ŠAery Soul 2001-2008 www.aerysoul.com