************************************************************ *Product Name: Beach Scenes Creator *Copyright August 2010 *By: Jordi R. Cardona (hiperia3d) and Emma Alvarez (emmaalvarez) ************************************************************ Ownership Statement: All of this product's content was created by Jordi R. Cardona (hiperia3d) and Emma Alvarez (emmaalvarez) -------------------------------------- System Requirements: Poser 6 and Up, and/or DAZ Studio 3 and up. For the poses of V4 and M4, you need V4 and M4. -------------------------------------- Product Description: A pack to create countless beach scenes. Scene + props + MAT poses + lights + poses + cameras + render settings - 20 Panoramas (sky backround + ground plane): 5 scenes (close palm beach, distant palm coast, rocky jungle paradise, jungle mountains, and rock arc) with 2 variations of sand color and 2 types of sky each. - 7 Lights sets: sunrise, morning, noon, evening, sunset, night, bonfire. - 2 Exotic beach umbrellas (figure + 2 variations), with or without table for drinks - 6 Beach loungers (figure + 6 textures) - 6 Beach chairs (figure + 6 textures) - 6 Beach tables (figure + 6 textures) - 5 Drink straws props of different colors - 12 Drink Umbrellas props of different colors and patterns - 4 Beach balls props - Coconut drink to put the straws and drink parasols - Plus: a shortcut to delete all lights in the scene - 7 Cameras - 4 Poses for sitting in the chair or laying in the lounger: 2 for V4, 2 for M4 - MAT poses to apply all textures - Render settings optimized for high quality Poser renders - 2 Scene preloads that load sample scenes with all the elements - 1 Preload of a coconut drink with 2 drink umbrellas and a drink straw 3D modeling by Jordi R. Cardona (hiperia3d). Textures and poses by Emma Alvarez (emmaalvarez). -------------------------------------- Installation Instructions: 1) Unzip the zip files. 2) Copy the Runtime folder of the zips over your Runtime folder of your Poser or DAZ Studio installation. 3) You can find new icons for loading this product in the following Poser Libraries: (DAZ Studio files in the same folders) - Camera: Hiperia3D/Beach (Camera sets) - Character (Figures): Hiperia3D/Beach (Most of the objects and the 2 preloads and coconut with straw preload) - Light: Hiperia3D/Beach (light sets plus shortcut to delete all lights) - Pose: Hiperia3D/Beach (MAT poses for character files) Hiperia3D/BeachPoses (Poses for V4 and M4) Hiperia3D/TFixDS (Fix for DAZ Studio transparency material in the drink umbrellas and coconut) - Props: Hiperia3D/Beach (drink umbrellas and drink straws) 4) Optional but recommended: install the Render Settings: a) Copy the .prp file "Beach High.prp" that is provided in the "Render Settings folder" and paste it into the right directory depending on your Poser version: Poser 6: \Runtime\prefs\RenderPresets Poser 7: C:\Users\UserName\AppData\Roaming\Poser 7\RenderPresets Poser 8: C:\Users\UserName\AppData\Roaming\Poser\8.0\RenderPresets Poser Pro: C:\Users\UserName\AppData\Roaming\Poser Pro\2.0\RenderPresets b) Run Poser. The new render settings will appear in the Render Settings window. Select them and render. ----------------------------------- Usage Tips: RENDER - In Render Settings\Options - Make sure that "Smooth Polygons" is Not Checked - Everything will look better if you use raytracing and cast shadows in your renders. And will look even better if you use the render settings provided. It only takes some seconds to install them. - The 2 preloads included are only 2 of the many possible combinations. Use your imagination to build an infinite number of sceneries. DRINK UMBRELLAS AND TRANSPARENCY - If you add the umbrella or the drink parasols in Poser and they appear to have some parts transparent don't worry. They will appear all right in Poser when rendered. This is a well known bug of Poser preview. - In DAZ Studio 3 some bug makes the drink parasols and coconut not load their transparency textures well. This is a bug of DS and is not caused by the prop. To fix it, we have provided a fix located at "Runtime\libraries\pose\Hiperia3D\TFixDS". Apply it in DAZ Studio whith the drinkink umbrella or coconut selected to fix them. - The coconut MAT pose in Pose/Hiperia3D/Beach loads its material correctly because it has a material preset for DS included, so if you use it you don't need to apply the fix to the coconut. The fix is only for the !!Cocofull preload. COCONUT AND DRINK STRAWS AND UMBRELLAS - drink straws and drink umbrellas are smartprops. They automatically parent to the coconut you have selected when added to the scene. So you can add one, two, or more of any of these, in different colors. When you move the coconut, the straws and umbrellas will follow. LIGHTS - In Poser, use the "delete_all" in Lights to remove all lights you may have added before using our lights. This may be not needed if your scene is using the default 3 lights of Poser but may find it useful if you added others, so they don't mix with the provided ones. - The lights included are optimized and may give optimal results in this 3D package and also with other products. Notice that 2 of the lights are just for coloring, while the other provides the shadows. In DAZ Studio, activate shadows for the brighter one, that way it will look better. - If you make other lights, they will look better if you set Shadow Blur Radius at 10 and Shadow Min Bias at 0.2 in the new lights that you create. - The panorama doesn't casts shadows, so you can move and add more lights. Anyway, due to a bug of Poser (at least in Poser 6), it is better that the lights placed behind the panorama have their "shadows" property unchecked and are only used for coloring. Use shadows that are not behind it to cast shadows, like we did in the lights provided. OTHER - If you are going to move your character (V4, M4 or other) with the lounger or the chair, it is better that you place the character over the furniture and then parent them, so you can move them at a time (for example, parent the lounger to the BODY of V4). -------------------------------------- Files Included in the Product: Beach Readme ==================================== license.txt readme.txt Render Settings ======================================= Beach High.prp Runtime\Geometries\Hiperia3D\Beach ========================================================== beachball.obj coconut.obj chair.obj drinkumb.mtl drinkumb.obj dstraw.obj lounger.obj panorama.obj table.obj umbrella.obj Runtime\libraries\camera\Hiperia3D\Beach ================================================================ cam1.cm2 cam1.png cam2.cm2 cam2.png cam3.cm2 cam3.png cam4.cm2 cam4.png cam5.cm2 cam5.png cam6.cm2 cam6.png cam7.cm2 cam7.png Runtime\libraries\character\Hiperia3D\Beach =================================================================== !!Cocofull.cr2 !!Cocofull.png !!BPreload1.cr2 !!BPreload1.png !!BPreload2.cr2 !!BPreload2.png ball.cr2 ball.png coconut.cr2 coconut.png chair.cr2 chair.png lounger.cr2 lounger.png panorama.cr2 panorama.png table.cr2 table.png umbrella.cr2 umbrella.png Runtime\libraries\light\Hiperia3D\Beach =============================================================== bonfire.lt2 bonfire.png delete_all.lt2 delete_all.png evening.lt2 evening.png moonlight.lt2 moonlight.png morning.lt2 morning.png noon.lt2 noon.png sunrise.lt2 sunrise.png sunset.lt2 sunset.png Runtime\libraries\pose\Hiperia3D\Beach ============================================================== coconut.ds coconut.png coconut.pz2 chairA.png chairA.pz2 chairB.png chairB.pz2 chairC.png chairC.pz2 chairD.png chairD.pz2 chairE.png chairE.pz2 chairF.png chairF.pz2 loungerA.png loungerA.pz2 loungerB.png loungerB.pz2 loungerC.png loungerC.pz2 loungerD.png loungerD.pz2 loungerE.png loungerE.pz2 loungerF.png loungerF.pz2 pano1a.png pano1a.pz2 pano1b.png pano1b.pz2 pano1c.png pano1c.pz2 pano1d.png pano1d.pz2 pano2a.png pano2a.pz2 pano2b.png pano2b.pz2 pano2c.png pano2c.pz2 pano2d.png pano2d.pz2 pano3a.png pano3a.pz2 pano3b.png pano3b.pz2 pano3c.png pano3c.pz2 pano3d.png pano3d.pz2 pano4a.png pano4a.pz2 pano4b.png pano4b.pz2 pano4c.png pano4c.pz2 pano4d.png pano4d.pz2 pano5a.png pano5a.pz2 pano5b.png pano5b.pz2 pano5c.png pano5c.pz2 pano5d.png pano5d.pz2 tableA.png tableA.pz2 tableB.png tableB.pz2 tableC.png tableC.pz2 tableD.png tableD.pz2 tableE.png tableE.pz2 tableF.png tableF.pz2 umbrella.png umbrella.pz2 umbrellaT.png umbrellaT.pz2 Runtime\libraries\pose\Hiperia3D\BeachPoses =================================================================== m4chair.png m4chair.pz2 m4lounger.png m4lounger.pz2 v4chair.png v4chair.pz2 v4lounger.png v4lounger.pz2 Runtime\libraries\pose\Hiperia3D\TFixDS =============================================================== coconut.ds coconut.png coconut.pz2 TFixDS.ds TFixDS.png TFixDS.pz2 Runtime\libraries\props\Hiperia3D\Beach =============================================================== ballA.png ballA.pp2 ballB.png ballB.pp2 ballC.png ballC.pp2 ballD.png ballD.pp2 drinkumbA.png drinkumbA.pp2 drinkumbB.png drinkumbB.pp2 drinkumbC.png drinkumbC.pp2 drinkumbD.png drinkumbD.pp2 drinkumbE.png drinkumbE.pp2 drinkumbF.png drinkumbF.pp2 drinkumbG.png drinkumbG.pp2 drinkumbH.png drinkumbH.pp2 drinkumbI.png drinkumbI.pp2 drinkumbJ.png drinkumbJ.pp2 drinkumbK.png drinkumbK.pp2 drinkumbL.png drinkumbL.pp2 dstrawA.png dstrawA.pp2 dStrawB.png dstrawB.pp2 dStrawC.png dstrawC.pp2 dStrawD.png dstrawD.pp2 dStrawE.png dstrawE.pp2 Runtime\Textures\Hiperia3D\Beach ======================================================== ball1.jpg ball2.jpg ball3.jpg ball4.jpg black.jpg briar.jpg coconut.jpg coconutB.jpg chair.jpg chairA.jpg chairB.jpg chairC.jpg chairD.jpg chairE.jpg chairF.jpg drinkUmbA.jpg drinkUmbB.jpg drinkUmbC.jpg drinkUmbD.jpg drinkUmbE.jpg drinkUmbF.jpg drinkUmbG.jpg drinkUmbH.jpg drinkUmbI.jpg drinkUmbJ.jpg drinkUmbK.jpg drinkUmbL.jpg drinkUmbT.jpg dStrawA.jpg dStrawB.jpg dStrawC.jpg dStrawD.jpg dStrawE.jpg fringe.jpg fringeT.jpg hat.jpg hatT.jpg iron.jpg liquid.jpg loungerA.jpg loungerB.jpg loungerC.jpg loungerD.jpg loungerE.jpg loungerF.jpg pano1.jpg pano10.jpg pano11.jpg pano12.jpg pano13.jpg pano14.jpg pano15.jpg pano16.jpg pano17.jpg pano18.jpg pano19.jpg pano2.jpg pano20.jpg pano3.jpg pano4.jpg pano5.jpg pano6.jpg pano7.jpg pano8.jpg pano9.jpg pole.jpg ribs.jpg tableA.jpg tableB.jpg tableC.jpg tableD.jpg tableE.jpg tableF.jpg Utable.jpg