Red-i Productions Presents "Sp3 Conforming Stockings" Copyright 2005 by Keith Young (a.k.a. Spanki) http://www.skinprops.com http://market.renderosity.com/mpview.ez?Who=Spanki November 19, 2005 ----------------- End User License: ========================================================== This package and all contents are Copyright by Keith Young. By using this package, you are agreeing to all the terms listed in the included "license.txt" file. Please read that file for details. Introduction: ========================================================== Thank you for purchasing my "Sp3 Conforming Stockings" package! These stockings are provided as a high resolution mesh with .cr2 file to conform them to your Stephanie Petite ('Sp3') character. Stephanie Petite can be purchased from DAZ. These stockings were designed to take the exact same textures used on my previous stockings for Victoria 3 (DAZ) and Alexa (3DCommune). They also happen to be compatible with Billy-T's stockings for Victoria 2. Sp3 tends to bend better than V3 does, but as I came to find out, this is due to her additional Joint Controlled Morphs (JCM). While this helps her bending/posing performance, it also tends to complicate the matter of getting a good fit on tight-clothing. I invested much time and effort in adding JCM to the stockings to assure a good fit in most posing situations (read more below for details). In addition to the JCM (which you shouldn't have to worry with), I also took the time to create many of the Body and Leg morphs found in the Sp3 figure. Here is a list of the included morphs: Muscular Barbarian Skinny Young ThighWide Adductors Hamstrings RectusFemo VastusLat VastusMed KneeInBulge Gastroc Soleus TibialisAnt FootForShoe FootPetite StretchLegs ...these are all set up as 'Full Body Morphs' and are controlled from dials on the Body. Most of these morphs were created by hand, using Poser magnets, with a few being cleaned up or created in my modelling program. I think/hope you'll be satisfied with the results. Lastly, in addition to several textures of my own, several merchants were kind enough to allow me to include Bonus/Sampler texture packs (thanks Ladies!)... "Bouquet de Bas" Sampler by laetia ( http://market.renderosity.com/mpview.ez?Who=laetia ) "Crazy Stocks" Sampler by Peti1958 ( http://market.renderosity.com/mpview.ez?Who=Peti1958 ) *"Lace/Bonanza" Sampler by serpentis ( http://market.renderosity.com/mpview.ez?Who=serpentis ) [* One of these textures is from her "Lace! for Spanki's V3 Stockings" pack and the other two are from her new "Stockings Bonanza" pack.] ...I have moved all the MAT Pose files into my "Spanki Clothing MATs" folder for your convieniance and you can find readme files for the sampler packs in the archive. Please visit thier stores to find the full texture packs and other great products. Just as a reminder, any texture add-on products for my "V3 Conforming Stockings", "Alexa's Morphing Stockings" and/or "Sp3 Conforming Stockings" (this product) are compatible with each other and may be used interchangably. Ownership Statement: ========================================================== All of the content in this package was created by Keith Young (a.k.a. Spanki), and may include derivatives of the following merchant resources: "Intricate Lace Texture Pack" by thenodemaster "Alotta Lace" by Ladybea32 "Many-Laces" by boundless Files Needed ========================================================== To fully utilize this package you will need the following: - Any version of Poser from Curious Labs / e frontier (see version notes below) ( http://www.e-frontier.com ) - Stephanie Petite (SP3/Sp3/S3) from DAZ Productions ( http://www.daz3d.com ) - Macintosh users will need some form of conversion program, but all filenames and internal pathings should be Mac compatible. Package details: ========================================================== - .obj file stockings - .cr2 file stockings - 7 400x1000 (transparency) textures in .jpg format (can also be used for bumpmaps) - MAT pose files for swapping out the textures above in Poser 4. - Material preset files for Poser 5/6 - Poser 4/Pro Pack/Poser 5/Poser 6 compatible .rsr files for all of the above Installation: ========================================================== The package is contained in one 4,061KB zip file: Sp3_stkns_runtime.zip. You should copy this file to your X:\xxx\xxxx\Poser4 directory and extract it there (at the _same_ level as the Runtime directory). It will create new directories listed below within the Runtime directory. General folder detail: ========================================================== All new directories/folders are created inside the Runtime directory... Geometries\Spanki\Clothing - contains the .obj mesh files for the stockings libraries\character\Spanki Clothing - contains the .cr2 files for the stockings libraries\Pose\Spanki Clothing MATs - contains the MATerial pose files for swapping out textures in P4 libraries\materials\Spanki Clothing - contains P5/P6 compatible material presets textures\Spanki\Clothing - continas the included texture files File List: ========================================================== \Runtime\Geometries\Spanki\Clothing\ Sp3_Stockings.obj \Runtime\libraries\character\Spanki Clothing\ Sp3 Stockings.cr2 Sp3 Stockings.png Sp3 Stockings.rsr \Runtime\libraries\materials\Spanki Clothing\ Stkn FloralPrint.mt5 Stkn FloralPrint.png Stkn ReFloral1.mt5 Stkn ReFloral1.png Stkn ReFloral2.mt5 Stkn ReFloral2.png Stkn Reinforced.mt5 Stkn Reinforced.png Stkn ReLaceTop.mt5 Stkn ReLaceTop.png Stkn Seamed.mt5 Stkn Seamed.png Stkn Sheer.mt5 Stkn Sheer.png \Runtime\libraries\Pose\Spanki Clothing MATs\ Stkn FloralPrint.png Stkn FloralPrint.pz2 Stkn FloralPrint.rsr Stkn ReFloral1.png Stkn ReFloral1.pz2 Stkn ReFloral1.rsr Stkn ReFloral2.png Stkn ReFloral2.pz2 Stkn ReFloral2.rsr Stkn Reinforced.png Stkn Reinforced.pz2 Stkn Reinforced.rsr Stkn ReLaceTop.png Stkn ReLaceTop.pz2 Stkn ReLaceTop.rsr Stkn Seamed.png Stkn Seamed.pz2 Stkn Seamed.rsr Stkn Sheer.png Stkn Sheer.pz2 Stkn Sheer.rsr \Runtime\textures\Spanki\Clothing\ Stkn_FloralPrint_S3.jpg Stkn_ReFloral1_S3.jpg Stkn_ReFloral2_S3.jpg Stkn_Reinforced_S3.jpg Stkn_ReLaceTop_S3.jpg Stkn_Seamed_S3.jpg Stkn_Sheer_S3.jpg Usage Information and Notes: ========================================================== Below are a few notes and/or tips on using the stockings... Usage ----- 1. Load your Stephanie Petite-based character as normal 2. Under the 'Figure/Use Inverse Kenematics' menu, be sure to disable kenematics for both the left and right legs (you can still use these options, but be sure to check here first if you start seeing skin poke through (see below)). 3. Switch to "Spanki Clothing" on the Figures palette and load the stockings. 4. Conform the stockings to your character ('Figure/Conform To...' menu) *** 5. Pose your character and continue as usual (note, you can conform the stockings after your character has been posed too, just be sure that your character is selected whenever you apply poses (this is nothing particular to do with these stockings, it's true with any conforming figures)). *** Sp3 uses several 'Joint Controlled Morphs' (JCMs) to help her bending in certain poses. The stockings have these same JCMs built in and are tied to the parent figure. In order for these to work correctly, you must load the figure BEFORE the stockings. If you load the stockings first, then the figure, you'll notice large amounts of poke-through on the stockings when you start posing the figure. To fix this, try removing, re-loading and then re-comforming the stockings. Changing Colors/Textures ------------------------ Poser 4/Pro Pack: 1. Select any part of the stockings. 2. apply one of the MAT pose files. 3. Adjust the material colors (and bumpmaps and other setting) to your preference, using the material editor. NOTE: As a bonus, these stockings are compatible with textures and MAT Pose files created for my "Conforming Stockings for V3", my stockings for 3DCommune's Alexa as well as textures created for Billy-T's stockings for V2 as part of his Lingerie pack. Poser 5/6: 1. Select the stockings and go to Poser's Material Room 2. Select the "Stocking" material from the drop-down list 3. Apply one of the supplied material presets 4. Adjust the material color to your preference Bump Maps --------- In order to support Poser 4 but without causing too much file bloat, the stockings load without any Bumpmaps set up. You can use any of the textures provided as a bump map as well... The P5/P6 material presets already have these set up, but the included MAT Pose files (for P4) do not set any bump map (see below). If you are using Poser 4, the program will tell you that it needs to be converted to a .bum file... just say yes. The included MAT pose files are very simple text files, for example: { figure { material Stocking { transparencyMap ":Runtime:textures:Spanki:Clothing:Stkn_ReLaceTop_S3.jpg" 0 0 } } } ...the above is the entire contents of the "Stkn ReLaceTop.pz2" file. If you want to change this MAT Pose file to also apply a bump map in Pro Pack, you would just need to add the 'bumpMap' tag as follows: { figure { material Stocking { bumpMap ":Runtime:textures:Spanki:Clothing:Stkn_ReLaceTop_S3.jpg" 0 0 transparencyMap ":Runtime:textures:Spanki:Clothing:Stkn_ReLaceTop_S3.jpg" 0 0 } } } ...If you are using Poser 4, then you would reference the .bum file instead (make sure that you've already created it first): { figure { material Stocking { bumpMap ":Runtime:textures:Spanki:Clothing:Stkn_ReLaceTop_S3.bum" 0 0 transparencyMap ":Runtime:textures:Spanki:Clothing:Stkn_ReLaceTop_S3.jpg" 0 0 } } } [NOTE: The sampler packs did not come with material presets, just MAT Pose files] General Usage and Morphs ------------------------ As mentioned earlier, the stockings come with a good set of morphs. Some of these are designed to be used with similar morphs found on Sp3... Muscular Barbarian Skinny Young ThighWide Adductors Hamstrings RectusFemo VastusLat VastusMed KneeInBulge Gastroc Soleus TibialisAnt FootForShoe FootPetite StretchLegs ...these can all be found on the 'BODY' of the stockings and should be used from there. There are also many Joint Controlled Morphs (JCM, also sometimes called Enhanced Remote Control (ERC) or something else). These morphs are spread out on the various body segments (thighs, shins, etc) and are there to help the stockings fit in a wide range of Poses. You pretty much don't have to mess with these at all, since they are controlled by bending the Sp3 character figure automatically. For a wide range of posing conditions, you'll find that these stockings, along with the appropriate morphs, will fit quite well, with very little 'poke-through' in a few situations. If you do see any poke-through, here are a few other things to look out for: - Inverse Kenematics Enabled This should be one of the first things to check... if it is enabled, the character's leg may be limited slightly in it's movement within a particular pose, while the stocking isn't, so they are out of sync. If you're done posing, turn off Kenematics. - Pose applied to Stockings Ooops... make sure you are applying poses to the character, not the stockings. - Twist and Side-to-Side values If the stocking just flies off the leg wildly, then it's probably due to large twist or side-to-side values on the character's butt/thigh/shin/etc parts. If this is the case, I'd suggest either enabling 'Use Limits' on the figure menu or, you can try adjusting the pose to remove some of the twist or side-to-side or transfer some of it to a different part (ie. if the buttocks has a twist value of 15, try setting it to 7 and putting 8 of it into the thigh). - Loading order This was mentioned above, but I repeat it here, just in case... Sp3 uses several 'Joint Controlled Morphs' (JCMs) to help her bending in certain poses. The stockings have these same JCMs built in and are tied to the parent figure. In order for these to work correctly, you must load the figure BEFORE the stockings. If you load the stockings first, then the figure, you'll notice large amounts of poke-through on the stockings when you start posing the figure. To fix this, try removing, re-loading and then re-comforming the stockings. - Gimble-Lock This is a rather common issue that plagues 3D Applications (including Poser). The problem is best demonstrated by selecting the hip of Sp3 and "typing in" an yRotate value of 180. If you do that, you'll see the stockings no longer stay glued in place. This is basically because the softare rotated the figure one direction and the stockings the oposite direction (both end up at 180). If you then dial the yRotate value by one degree in either direction, you'll see the stockings glue back in place. To avoid this problem, you can grab the yRotate dial and ease the hip around to 180 (instead of typing in that absolute value). This issue is not unique to my stockings, but I mention it, because it ALSO happens when you apply a Pose file that has the hip rotated to exactly 180 degrees, so it's something to keep an eye out for. - If all else fails ...then it's time to start playing with magnets ;). Final Comments: ========================================================== Thanks again for your purchase. I am always interested in comments and product feedback. Enjoy, Keith Young a.k.a. Spanki http://www.skinprops.com