TerraFirma 3. Thank you for purchasing TerraFirma 3. We hope you enjoy this product, and appreciate any feedback you may have. This pack is intended for use with Poser8 and newer, though we would recommend Poser9 and newer for best results. For the purposes of this guide, we'll be using PoserPro 2014, but there is nothing we'll be doing that can't be done in Poser 8 and above.  And initially, pretty much everything is in default, except Render settings. Once you've installed the product, your new TerraFirma3 items will be in: Runtime:Libraries:Pose:! TerraDome2:TerraFirma3 Runtime:Libraries:Camera:! TerraDome2:TerraFirma3 This pack is an add-on for TerraDome2, which is required in order for this pack to work. So to begin with, we want to load TerraDome2, and get some materials on it, as shown in image1 below. We also want to make some adjustments to our Main Camera, as detailed in the TerraDome2 User Guide pdf. We're going to use a focal length of 30mm for a nice wide field of view, and we're going to set the yon value to 3000, to stop anything disappearing out the back of shot. We've also set our Document Window Size to 960x540. We find this size to give nice renders for TerraDome2 and landscape images.

Image 1: TerraDome2 loaded, and materials applied.

To get started, we need to load the TerraFirma3 morphs. These can be found in Runtime:Libraries:Pose:! TerraDome2:TerraFirma3. There are a number of ways to do this. You can either load the morphs individually, or all at once. The 12 morphs contained in this pack are all FullBodyMorphs, this set is all in one folder. We're going to go to apply the '!INJ TerraFirma3-ALL' pose.

Image2: Load all the TerrraFirma3 morphs at once

As we can see in image2, the Body has all the dials in one place to use.As these are all Full Body Morphs, the individual components are hidden on the body parts and they have to be operated from the dials on BODY only. These morphs grouping are the same  structure as the first TerraFirma packs, so they're all grouped together. If you already own the previous packs, this pack will expand the existing groups, if they're loaded. *IMPORTANT NOTE* In Poser 8/PoserPro2010, the dials on Body will load incorrectly. This is an unavoidable flaw in these versions of Poser, which is why we recommend using Poser9+. The dials will still work, but they will be incorrectly grouped on Body. On the individual body parts, they group correctly. Dial various morphs up to see what they do, then try combinations of morphs to achieve an almost limitless variety of morphed shapes. In TerraFirma3, the morphs are for either East or West. East and West are defined as to the right and left respectively of the main camera when it opens, which is facing North. So a character opening in default position is facing South. While there are Eastern and Western morphs named the same, please note they are not mirrors of each other. So 'EasternLake' is not 'WesternLake' flipped. Each of the 12 morphs in this pack are unique. Try experimenting with dialing some of one side, then a bit of the other side. *TIP* Some morphs may affect how other morphs appear, and in some cases may affect each other adversely. If this happens, either dial down one or more of the morphs, and/or use a different combination of morphs. Adverse morph effects can also happen from applying extreme amounts of multiple morphs. We've also included a number of camera presets to give you some nice angles for renders for some of the less viewed features of these morphs.. Depending on how your document window is sized, some small adjustments may be necessary. Unfortunately, we can't anticipate what everyone has for their render size, so these should be treated as a starting point to get you in the right area easily. These cameras have been set up using our usual render window size, which is normally in a 16:9 aspect ratio when we're using TerraDome2. (960x540 is our usual preview window size)and they've been set up to work with the morph they are named for, set to 1.000, so some adjustments may be necessary if extra morphs have been dialed up.

Image3: Dial some morphs

Let's have a look at setting up a very quick scene. In image 3 above, we've dialed up just about all the TerraFirma3 morphs, to some degree. We added TD2 Water and we've got quite a nice little scene, with just the morphs from this pack. In image 4, we've added more morphs, from the Base Morphs and our other two TerraFirma packs, and we've just added a touch of a few more morphs.. We changed the camera position and angle to look at the scene more from the west and up a little. We also changed the material on the ground to 'Moorland-02' We rendered that in the Desert materials, then wondered what it would look like with the Alpine materials on. We preferred the Alpines so that what we went with for the last image, below. We've then populated the scene with the wonderful Viking Village by Faveral at Daz. And for the final render, we turned the lights down a bit and added the fantastic DNA Old Wood Pines.

Image4: adding to the scene

We hope you enjoy using this product and we look forward to seeing what images you make with it. Happy Rendering Andrew and Tracey (Mortem Vetus) :)

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