-------------------------------------- Product Name: Legendary Lanterns Copyright 12-12-2009 (c) Robert Blanda By: Robert Blanda Contact: Cybertenko -------------------------------------- System Requirements: PC, Vue 6 and higher (not tested on MAC) -------------------------------------- Product Description: These two models represents two of many typical and famous lanterns of our past or even present. The first is lantern with Fresnel lens used mostly as anchor light. According international regulations it is defined as a 360 degree white all round light, indicating the vessel showing it is "at anchor", not "under power" or "under sail" or "making way. The lamp must have a visible range of one, two or three nautical miles depending on the length of the vessel. The lens inside the lamp is based on invention of French physicist Augustin-Jean Fresnel. The design enables the construction of lenses of large aperture and short focal length without the weight and volume of material that would be required in conventional lens design. Compared to earlier lenses, the Fresnel lens is much thinner, thus passing more light and allowing lightsources to be visible over much longer distances. Colored globe provided for one of models are used not as anchor light but as positional light. Kerosene Pressure lamp uses a mantle for generating bright white light when heated by a flame.A pressure lamp has a fuel tank at the bottom with a small pump to pressurise the kerosene. There is a narrow gap up to the top of the lamp called a flue, and at the top of the lamp there is a burner (gas outlet). Directly underneath the burner is the mantle, a fabric bag coated with chemicals which incandesce (glow brightly) when heated by the gas flame. To work a pressure lamp the kerosene needs to be heated to the point where it is vaporised. This is necessary because vaporised kerosene burns much hotter than liquid kerosene. Kerosene pressure lamps are known mostly by brand names of its manufacturers which are different in various parts of the world. -------------------------------------- Ownership Statement: All of this product's content was created by Robert Blanda -------------------------------------- Installation Instructions: Unzip into your vue content directory and load as a model. -------------------------------------- Usage Tips or Limitations: Both lanterns are made from logic components for easy change of provided or others materials. Should you need it, you can also deconstruct lanterns and render them during cleaning or other maintenance. For fresnel lamp it is main body, glass globe and inner burner, for kerosene pressure lamp it is fuel tank with burner mechanism, glass globe, hood and removable reflector hood. Both lamps can be rendered with handle up (for hanging) or down (for standing) just delete or hide handle you do not need. For both lamps are provided certain objects turned into "area light", which imitate burning light. For fresnel lamp it is model of flame (the other non-lit flame model is used for low intesities of light when burning flame is need to be visible). For kerosene pressure lamp it is mantle, if you need render lamp lit, just raise intensity of light emanation, for lamp extinguished turn light intesity to zero. For kerosene pressure lamp you can choose the presence of reflector hood and render it with or without it. All provided materials are procedural, some of them are basic vue and some are made. *** -------------------------------------- Files Included in the Product: Fresnel_Anchor_Lamp_Old_Vue6.vob - Fresnel lens lantern with corroded material and clear glass globe Fresnel_Anchor_Lamp_Vue6.vob - Fresnel lens lantern with almost new material and color glass globe Kerosene_Pressure_Lamp_M_vue6.vob - kerosene pressure lamp with polished chrome finish Kerosene_Pressure_Lamp_M_vue6.vob - kerosene pressure lamp - military model with green paint Legendary_Lanterns_README.txt /this file/ Licence0409.txt