3dcheapskate opened this issue on Feb 20, 2012 ยท 9 posts
3dcheapskate posted Mon, 20 February 2012 at 8:04 PM
This is my third release in a series of mail textures. The release contains three seperate mails, inventively called 'Scale01', 'Scale02', and 'Scale03'. You've guessed - this time it's actally scale armour. (We won't get into that "but scale isn't mail", "yes it is", "no it isn't" argument)
Scale 01: A pointed scale, based on memories of movies when I was a kid!
Scale 02: A rounded scale, based on a Japanese 'gyorin kozane' scale armour.
Scale 03: A flat, oblong scale based on Roman 'Lorica squamata'
Each mail texture consists of four 512x512 PNG images - texture, bump/displacement, normals, and ambient occlusion.
For each mail I've also included a Poser 5 material (.mt5) file for applying the texture to any item, plus Poser 6 material collection (.mc6) files for applying the textures to Lourdes' free M3 Normans Outfit.
Similarly for DAZ|Studio users each mail has a DS3 shader preset (.dsa) file for applying the texture to any item, plus DS3 material presets (.dsa) files for applying the textures to Lourdes' free M3 Normans Outfit.
DAZ|Studio users get a few extras - some sample DS3 shader preset (.dsa) files to give an idea of the range of effects you can create, and a few DS3 shader preset (.dsa) files that simply set various tiling values. (Apologies to Poser users - no samples or tiling helpers. My eyes were beginning to ache and I decided to call it a day!)
Because scale armour has a definite orientation, I had to do a simple remap of Lourdes' M3 Norman's Tunic so that the scale orients correctly on the sleeves. All other clothing items were acceptable with the original mapping. I've included the remapped tunic OBJ, and an edited CR2 that uses it. I'm 99.9% certain this is in accordance with the 'derivative' part of the license terms for Lourdes' original model, waiting for that final 0.1% confirmation!
As always, please take a look at the readme.
The 3Dcheapskate* occasionally posts sensible stuff. Usually by accident.
And it usually uses Poser 11, with units set to inches. Except when it's using Poser 6 or PP2014, or when its units are set to PNU.
*also available in ShareCG, DAZ, and HiveWire3D flavours (the DeviantArt and CGBytes flavour have been discontinued).