GEORGE’S Poser Castle no 1

Read all of this to get the best out of this 3D model

Description
Poser ready fairytale castle. 2 large rooms, 1 high hall, 2 small dungeons, 1 tiny room at top of tower, spiral stone staircase and small balcony area.

Helpful Important Notes
1
You may use this castle with or without the rock base. If you don’t want the rock base then just make it invisible. You do not obviously have to export the rock base to a program like Bryce if you would rather add your own rocks and grass later on. 

2
The rock base is made of two parts so that you can texture it as either all grass, or rock areas plus grass areas. You can change the materials in the Poser render/materials menu to others of your own choice.

3
The default wall texture for this castle is sandstone. I have however included in the zip textures folder two alternative textures for a grey castle. Just substitute the  ‘Rock’ and ‘Rock2’ materials in the Poser render/materials menu, replacing the textures with ‘EuropeanChapelRock2’ and ‘SandStone2’ textures.

4
Figures can be posed on the stone spiral staircase by turning the ‘tower tube’ section to invisible. You will also find it easier to pose figures in the high tower room by turning the ‘tower roof’ section to invisible.

5
Turning the ‘Base castle’ section to invisible will remove the castle base plinth and long outer staircase.

IMPORTANT INSTRUCTIONS
1.
Unzipping the files
This is not a self-extracting zip, but files are already loaded into their correct folders. Please unzip to a new temporary folder then copy folders to their final destination.

Alternatively, if you already have some of my stuff, especially the textures, then copy the folder contents into their correct folder locations as shown in the enclosed Poser4 folder.

You can find your new files in Poser by opening the figures library and looking for George279 Buildings

Zip contains:
cr2 and rsr
Texture jpg’s
Readme.txt and .doc

2.
About the textures
All textures are enclosed. 

I regret I will no longer be enclosing other texture bump maps as these make my file uploads too large.

3.
Copyright matters
This construction kit and associated meshes are entirely original and are the design property of zippy/George279/Andrew Snowdon, and may NOT be copied or used in any way to make another model, or used for commercial purpose without my permission. You may use these models in other 3D software, with the same restrictions. Models created with Cinema 4D XL V6.

The textures Endless boards, EuropeanChapelRock (plus version 2), SandStone (plus version 2), OldOldSiding and InterleafedBrownShing  are purchased under licence by me and remain the copy write property of www.textureworld.com and may NOT be copied or used in any way for other models or design purposes. This is the agreement I have with their creator for including them with my freebie props. If you wish to reuse these textures then please purchase your own versions from textureworld.com. 

Many thanks to www.textureworld.com for the above included textures, which are, with their permission, my own low res versions of his textures (low res for ease of net transmission and demonstration purpose). You can obtain the original high res versions of these textures, terms as advertised on his site, from textureworld.com.

All other textures are from copyright free sources.
I do advise you to visit http://www.3dtextures.fr.st/ for hundreds of excellent rights free textures. 
Please also visit textureworld.com where you will also find hundreds of wonderful textures, prices as advertised on that site.

4.
E mail me
My sincere thanks to those who have written with their comments and thoughts.  Please send me a copy of your pictures if you use my models. I would love to see them.

Feel free to e-mail me with comments to George279@southpole800.freeserve.co.uk I am new to modelling and would appreciate some feedback. 

My freebie Poser prop web site is:
http://www.geekantics.net/render/george279/

That’s all folks. Have fun.

Andrew / George279 / zippy

