http://www.ladydawg.org/poser2/zips/OpenChap.zip

for anyone who wants to snag it early :)

Enjoy and I hope I'm getting it to everyone in time for some Christmas renders!

This is just my way of saying thanks to all of you for your friendship and support of my work. I wish you all a very happy & safe holiday season :)

Merry Christmas & a Happy New Year :)
{Big Hugz}
Rick Bridenbaker

Richabri

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The Open Chapel is a beautifully detailed open air structure complete with grounds, cherry tree, altar candle and backdrop prop with four sky images. The model features ornamental gold trim and richly detailed marble surfaces as well as a complete environment for your renders.

The Open Chapel comes with everything you'll need to create an outdoor chapel scene including these props:

• The chapel structure itself with changeable stained glass window texture.
• An altar candle with holder.
• A terrain prop with detailed grass texture.
• A detailed cherry tree model.
• A curved panoramic backdrop to host background sky images.
• Four beautiful background sky images (1728x1000) pixels nominal.

Everything comes as Poser Ready props that can be loaded from the sidebar menu or for even easier use - just load the included PZ3 file which has all of the props loaded with a default lighting and camera scheme.

The Open Chapel prop also includes 6 camera presets & 2 light presets for easy scene creation.

All of the prop's elements are completely modular and can be used separately or with other sets for maximum use and enjoyment.

Also, as always, send a big virtual Hugz & Kiss to Ladydawg for hosting this file as well as my other FreeStuff. Without her kindness and generosity I don't know how I'd get these files to you :)

Thanks so much Dee and a special holiday greetings to you :)

This is very lovely. Thank you :)

What a generous and beautiful gift! Thank you so much. Merry Christmas to you, Richabri and Ladydawg!

Looks terrific Rick! Thanks so much to you for creating the wonderful things you do all year long and to Ladydawg for hosting your freestuff. A GREAT BIG VERY MERRY Christmas hug and kiss to you both. :) Genevieve

Excellent! Thank you!

thank you for sharing,its very pretty,and thank you also to ladydawg for hosting,wishing a very merry christmas to you both :)

Thank you both for sharing this beatiful chapel. Merry Christmas to both of you, Richabri and Ladydawg!

It is very pretty. Thank you very much for this wonderful gift!

Thankyouthis is beautiful and generous, merry christmas :)

Thank you so much!

Wow, a merry christmas it will be:) Thank you! eric

Thank you ever so much. That is a lovely present!

What a beautiful model, thank you, you did a fantastic job. Sharen

Thank you very much, this is a wonderful model. Merry Christmas to you too :).

Thank you very much, and a Very Merry Christmas to both of you Richabri and Ladydawg.

Very,very, nice.......thank you. (: genny

Thank You so much Rick. Hugs

Very generous of you - thank you!!

You're all very welcome and I hope the Open Chapel gives you much fun and many renders :)

mac - oh that's very true! Other than using a complete hemisphere or something I couldn't think of any other way of doing it myself. Mine had to be larger because this is an outdoor prop and had to provide a view larger than you'd get through a window :)

I was considering experimenting with a layered background prop like I used for my Poser Studio. The idea would be to put forground elements like clouds and such on a front layer and the rest of the background on a back layer. I've had trouble with the way Poser handles transparencies and never did get back to it though. Just a thought :)

Thank-You! It looks great!

Wow - it's beautiful! THank you! And happy holidays to you too!

rick, It's interesting to hear your side of this. I messed around with backgrounds for a long time, and tried every shape imaginable, including a dome and a huge cylinder that went right round the room. Of course, the real problem is that you need a shape you can put a picture on, otherwise it's not practical. Here's another coincidence. I was recently trying to make a fire with flames, and came to the same conclusion you did. I made a prop with 3 flat 'flame' layers and added a transmap to each one to get the depth I wanted. Haven't finished it yet though. I'm still experimenting. cheers mac

Thank you Thank you Thank you SOOOO MUCH!!!

thank you very much! To both of you re the fire props: try multiple planes angled slightly to each other and of variable size, as well.

Rick, I've always loved your products :) This is such a nice pleasant surprise :) Happy Holidays to you and yours and thank you very much :) Pendy

"I've had some luck using the spherical & polar co-ordinate filters in Photoshop to map outdoor scenes to an inverted sphere" How did you do that if I may ask? How did you get the inverted sphere specifically?

Hmmmm..... very interesting. mac

Thanks Rubbermatt for the tip :) What type of texture map do you apply to the ball?

Thank you, it's lovely. :)