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*Product Name: Rain Of Petals
*Copyright Emma Alvarez - September 2012
*By: emmaalvarez
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Product Description: 

A classic! The rain of falling petals: you've seen it in romantic scenes, fantasy scenes of unicorns, cinema classics and pinups... 
Now you can have it to fill the images of your imagination!

Textures made from photos of real petals, realistic and sweet...

Very efficient and realistic, and lightweight, you can fill a big scene with hundreds of petals and renders fast!

Use for pinup, romance, fantasy scenes... A must have in your Runtime!!!

This Pack includes:

- Standalone figures of petals in 15 groupings: 5 big groups of falling petals, 5 small groups, 5 on the floor
- 7 Mat poses: Red, White, Black, Orange, Yellow, Pink, and Blue petals
- 3 already made Preload files that load a bunch of petal groups together: group of fallen petals, falling rain,
 and petals path

- Render settings and instructions in JPG to enter them for Poser and Daz Studio

Poser 6 and up, or DS3 and up.
PC Compatible. Not tested in Mac.

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System Requirements:

Poser 6 and up, or DS3 and up.
PC Compatible. Not tested in Mac.

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Needed Files: 

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FOR POSER:
1) Unzip the zip files.

2) Copy the Runtime folder of the zips over your Runtime folder of your Poser installation.

3)  You can find new icons for loading this product in the following Poser Libraries: 

	\Runtime\libraries\Character\EmmaAlvarez\RainOfPetals
	\Runtime\libraries\Pose\EmmaAlvarez\RainOfPetals
	       
4) Optional but recommended: use the Render Settings: You can open the provided JPGs and fill them manually. Follow the instructions included in the image file INSTRUCTIONS.jpg

FOR DAZ STUDIO 3
1) Unzip the zip files.

2) Copy the Runtime folder of the zips over your Runtime folder of your DAZ Studio installation.

3) You can find new icons for loading this product in the following Libraries: 
       
	\Runtime\libraries\Character\EmmaAlvarez\RainOfPetals
	\Runtime\libraries\Pose\EmmaAlvarez\RainOfPetals
	
4) Optional, recommended: use the Render Settings: use the menu "Render/Render Settings" to open the dialog in Daz Studio, and then fill in the values of the render settings.
	            
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Usage Tips:

MAKE YOUR OWN GROUPS
- Add groups of petals and rotate them so the roses petals look in different directions although not too random because petals tend to fall looking to the same direction.
- When using the ones on the floor, it is better to put 3 or 4 groups one over the other, that way you can get a very realistic and interesting group
- You can use small groups to put some petals falling from a hand
- Use lots of groups for scenes: each big group has only 200 polys, look realistic and renders very fast! Add lots of them, 25 groups are only 5000 polys!

RENDER TIPS
- IF YOU USE POSER 8 OR POSER PRO 2010: DON'T USE GAMMA CORRECTION. TURN IT OFF. USE RAYTRACING FOR BEST RESULTS.
- In Poser, 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.
- Use our render settings

LIGHTS
- If you make your own 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. 

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Files Included in the Product:

\Documentation\
License.txt
RainOfPetals_Readme.txt
 
\Render Settings\
DAZ Studio 3.jpg
DAZ Studio 4.jpg
INSTRUCTIONS.jpg
P6 Render Settings.jpg
P7 Render Settings.jpg
P8 and PoserPro 2010 Render Settings.jpg
Poser 9 and PoserPro 2012 Render Settings.jpg
Poser Debut Render Settings.jpg

\Runtime\Geometries\EmmaAlvarez\RainOfPetals\
earainofpetals1big.obj
earainofpetals1small.obj
earainofpetals2big.obj
earainofpetals2small.obj
earainofpetals3big.obj
earainofpetals3small.obj
earainofpetals4big.obj
earainofpetals4small.obj
earainofpetals5big.obj
earainofpetals5small.obj
earainofpetalsfloor1.obj
earainofpetalsfloor2.obj
earainofpetalsfloor3.obj
earainofpetalsfloor4.obj
earainofpetalsfloor5.obj
 
\Runtime\libraries\character\EmmaAlvarez\RainOfPetals\Petal Groups\
Big01.cr2
Big01.png
Big02.cr2
Big02.png
Big03.cr2
Big03.png
Big04.cr2
Big04.png
Big05.cr2
Big05.png
OnFloor01.cr2
OnFloor01.png
OnFloor02.cr2
OnFloor02.png
OnFloor03.cr2
OnFloor03.png
OnFloor04.cr2
OnFloor04.png
OnFloor05.cr2
OnFloor05.png
Small01.cr2
Small01.png
Small02.cr2
Small02.png
Small03.cr2
Small03.png
Small04.cr2
Small04.png
Small05.cr2
Small05.png
 
\Runtime\libraries\character\EmmaAlvarez\RainOfPetals\Preloads\
!Info.cr2
!Info.png
Falling.cr2
Falling.png
FloorPreload.cr2
FloorPreload.png
PetalsPath.cr2
PetalsPath.png
 
\Runtime\libraries\pose\EmmaAlvarez\RainOfPetals\
Black.png
Black.pz2
Blue.png
Blue.pz2
Orange.png
Orange.pz2
Pink.png
Pink.pz2
Red.png
Red.pz2
White.png
White.pz2
Yellow.png
Yellow.pz2

\Runtime\Textures\EmmaAlvarez\RainOfPetals\
earainofpetalsblack.jpg
earainofpetalsblue.jpg
earainofpetalsorange.jpg
earainofpetalspink.jpg
earainofpetalsred.jpg
earainofpetalsT.jpg
earainofpetalswhite.jpg
earainofpetalsyellow.jpg