P.S. I just know her as 'Isabel de Valois' - her french birth name - which is also the title of Coello's painting ;-) As I have said - language is important... ;-)

Arien is right... in parts, but not fully.
The Eleonora gown is not the one Bronzio painted (either in 'Eleonora and her son' or 'Eleonora' - there are two paintings of the same garment, one with son, one without) - that one was made of incredibly cut, patterned velvet - this one here was made of silk duchesse which obviously has no pattern.
So... the hunt goes on ;-) (Did I mention that you have more than one try?)

Message edited on: 10/19/2004 15:25

lol... Yes, I am German... and yes, it is freezing cold here... So... was auch immer Du sagen mhtest, ich werde es lesen knen ;-) By the way... language is also an issue in this task. See that Eleonora is called di Toledo? This is an italian name thing. If she were called de Toledo, it would be french. As I have already hinted out that these three gowns are exclusive italian / french renaissance gowns, this might help you finding an answer. If you have a name, there's Google picture search... 'nuff said. ;-)

No, not so right.... The garments were textures after actual historic paintings and are most certainly recognizeable on the respective Ladies (whose names they even bear!) if you look at the actual painting ;-) Now what surprises me is that you name the historic Eleonora Di Toledo in one sentence and a fictional Eleonora in another.... once again: no fictional characters involved here. Eleonora Di Toledo is right, now find out if it is one of the two dresses from a painting or the "other" garment, and name its purpose and wearing time. And, yes, I actually have a reason to ask for the wearing time, because the answer is probably beyond anything you could imagine without knowing the purpose of the garment. Another hint I can give that all three paintings belong to the italian- and french renaissance - nothing english involved here. One of the Ladies had a famous name sister who later became queen - but it is not Maria Stuart. Oh, come on, I have given sooooo many hints now. Is it indeed so difficult?

Now to the contest ;-)
As I have always liked talking and teaching about historic garments (and encouraging others to do so...), here is the contest for you:

As you can see, each of the three pictures bears a name for the garment that is shown.
It cannot be too difficult - these are of course the names of the historical owners of the garments.
Two of the gowns were strongly inspired by paintings of the women whose names they bear now.

If you would like to win this set of textures, with three gowns, as shown above, each in five different colors, as shown above, then do the following:

Name the full names of the two women, the approximate date of the painting, plus the name of the painter.
(It is not as difficult as it sounds; if you are interested in art and able to search on Google, this should be done in almost no time!)
THE FIRST THREE WHO ARE ABLE TO NAME THESE TWO CORRECTLY WILL RECEIVE THE FULL TEXTURE SET; WITH ALL TEXTURES AND MAT FILES AS SOON AS IT IS IN MY STORE.
Give your answers in this thread ;-)

One of the three gowns was never shown in a painting. All you have is the name of the one who wore it (and you have to find out which one of the three gowns this is!).
IF YOU CAN TELL ME NOT ONLY THE FULL NAME OF THE ORIGINAL OWNER, BUT ALSO WHAT FOR THIS GARMENT SERVED, AND FOR HOW LONG IT WAS APPROXIMATELY WORN, THEN YOU WILL WIN THIS ADDITIONALLY TO THE TEXTURE SET:
I will create, based upon your personal preferences, another texture color for each of the three gowns.
For example, you want Eleonora in sky blue, Isabel in dark green and Maria in orange - I will create it for you. After I have sent these additional textures plus the appropriate MAT files to you, I will delete the textures from my Harddisk.
So you will be the only one who owns them, and are free to do with them whatever you want (except of corse offering them for download or sale).
This part of the contest is only for the first person who can tell me the full name of the original owner, the purpose of the garment and its wearing time.
This one is very tricky, I know - but it is manageable.

YOU HAVE TIME TO FIND THE ANSWERS UNTIL SATURDAY. (But I would not be angry if you would find them earlier! ;-) )

Now, as english is not my first language: If I did not explain something properly - PLEASE ASK.
Other than that, I hope you like the textures very much :-D

Best wishes,
Sabine

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The interesting thing is that the original author of this thread obviously just has copied and pasted the images as well as the text from the 'Urban legends' site which was later mentioned in this thread, but left out the information that this is not a US helicopter, even if he should have known better.
Uhm.... how cool is that....

Message edited on: 10/18/2004 12:41

Attached Link: http://www.filext.com/detaillist.php?extdetail=NBF

Uhm - you're certain that you don't confuse a bumpmap with a transmap here...? Best wishes, Sabine

Well..... Basically, you take the texture template (which can be made with UVMapper, if none was delivered with the product) and then paint all areas black which you want to be transparent and all areas white which should not be transparent. Then you add this texture as a transparency map to your material(s) (You have to add them to all materials if it should be used on the whole figure) and set at least the max transparency to 100%. That's all - but be careful - in the 'preview' window of Poser, you will now see just a 'dotted veil' - you have to render it to see the effects. Best wishes, Sabine

Sorry, when I'm dressed in that gown, I cannot drink whatever at the same time - I have to be too careful that my feet won't get stuck in the ten yards hem of the skirt, otherwise I would trip every few steps. The best thing I can do in it is to sit down and smile for pictures, or to stand in one place and look important ;-)
The hometown is, almost exactly by the breadth of a hair if seen on an average world globe, in Hamburg, North Germany.

Message edited on: 10/01/2004 15:22

LOL! Come visit me in my hometown - my neighbors are by now annoyed to see 'that woman from old times' in our village every day (and, yes, I don't mind shopping groceries dressed like this - or even worse - when I'm wearing a victorian bustle gown, people ask if they 'can use the table on my backside for camping' - sigh!).

Attached Link: http://www.renderosity.com/viewed2.ez?galleryid=7552

Which version of Poser are you using? In P4, you can just select the character, then "Add to Library" right in the Character's Library - Poser will then state that the character is part of a group (as long as hair, clothes etc. are assigned to the character) and will ask you if you want to save just the character or the whole group... select whole group then... P5? Have no idea, do not have P5 yet... but I bet there must be a similar function...