Post by Xaa on Jan 25, 2007 10:01:56 GMT -5
Yes, it's that diety you all know and love, the One-Eyed God! Sitting there in the corner of your living room, bathing your children in cathode rays and raising their cancer risk while feeding their growing little minds on an endless diet of irresistible commercials and intellectual pablum!
Yes, feeding you pablum when you're blue, feeding you pablum when you're happy, and feeding you more pablum when you're not really quite sure how you might feel, but are just in the mood to stare blankly at a glowing screen for a few hours rather than actually read a book or get some excercise or something boring like that, it's the One-Eyed God, your personal savior!
Alright, seriously - it's a 1950's-style TV, made as a prop for Poser. The file is approximately 1.4 meg, and can be downloaded at the following URL:
www.sharecg.com/v/31408/Poser/1950s-TV-with-Rabbit-Ears
This download has been tested to work in IE6 and Free Download Manager ( www.freedownloadmanager.org ).
So why all the hoopla? Well, I don't like TV much, and besides, a thread title like "Free 50's TV" isn't nearly as interesting.
*****README FOR THE 1950's TV*****
What it is:
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This is a 1950's-style Television, loosely patterned after a few models of Zenith TV's that were available later in the decade. Textures include test patterns, snow screens, and a blank screen template you can use to make your own screens. If you do not adjust the size of the template when you use it, the resulting image will have the same resolution as a real TV image.
Note: The TV is about 4 meg or so, because the numbers on the channel dials are actually modeled, rather than textured. In experimenting with making the TV, I discovered that if you want to do an extreme close-up of a hand reaching for the dial, you need about a 4 meg texture for it to come out crystal clear every time, because they are actually pretty small. So, I just said "to hell with it" and modeled the numbers as part of the dials.
Additional Note: This style of TV was common through into the early 1980's. It did not need an external antenna, because it had an internal antenna. If you needed better reception, you usually connected it to a 'mast' antenna on the roof of your house using ladder wire (or, for apartment dwellers, a set of rabbit ears). However, the download includes a 1950's-style set of rabbit-ears, smart-propped to the 1950's TV I released the other day. The base was made of cast iron so it wouldn't flip over, while the ball and the antenna tips were made of bakelite. Four morphs are included, two for each antenna - one retracts the antenna, while the other lowers it.
IMPORTANT NOTE: This item REQUIRES Poser 5 or higher, because it makes use of the poser 'noise' Material Node as part of the procedural textures used on the model. If you try to use this in earlier versions of Poser or in DAZ Studio it won't work, you'll have to re-texture the whole thing, you'll be screaming and cursing and crying and tearing your hair out, it'll be a horrible experience that will likely leave lasting mental scars. To spare you that kind of trauma, I'm warning you now - this item REQUIRES Poser 5 or higher, because it makes use of Procedural Material Nodes.
What you can do with it:
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1) You're free to use this model in any render, non-commericial or commercial.
2) You may not sell the model itself, either individually or as part of a compilation.
3) If you re-post this model on your website or as part of a free compilation, the archive must include this readme file.
How to use it:
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First, extract this archive to your Poser runtime directory. The files will fall into the following directories:
The TV will appear under Runtime:Libraries:Props:1950's_TV
Extra screen textures will appear under Runtime:textures:Jim's Custom Textures:TV
Helpful Tip: Feel free to move the files wherever you need them to go, based on how you've organized your Poser folders. On my machine, my runtime is into double-digit gigs, I'd never find anything just letting stuff randomly install, I'd end up with a mess of folders and never remember where anything was. So, I have a pretty extensive and exacting folder arrangement to help me find things. For example, on my machine, the TV falls under :Runtime:libraries:props:Buildings and Furniture:18th to 21st Century:Furniture:Television. Just don't change the location of the textures or the obj file for the files, and they will work no matter where you put them in your folder arrangement.
After you've arranged the files where you want them (and deleted folders you don't need in your directory structure), open Poser. To use the TV, simply load it like any other prop. You can apply a different screen texture in the Material room.
IMPORTANT NOTE: Some versions of Poser will ask you to locate Glass_Reflection_map.png when you load the TV for the first time. If this happens, you can find this texture under libraries>Materials>Glass. Simply re-save the TV afterwards, and your version of Poser will not ask you to find it again. If you want the Thumbnail in the library to be back to the original after saving, simply drag a copy of it from the zip file into the folder you installed the TV into, replacing the thumbnail with the one from the archive. =)
Who made it:
------------
©2007 Jim Farris, All Rights Reserved
www.jim-farris.com
*****END OF README FOR THE 1950's TV*****
Yes, feeding you pablum when you're blue, feeding you pablum when you're happy, and feeding you more pablum when you're not really quite sure how you might feel, but are just in the mood to stare blankly at a glowing screen for a few hours rather than actually read a book or get some excercise or something boring like that, it's the One-Eyed God, your personal savior!
Alright, seriously - it's a 1950's-style TV, made as a prop for Poser. The file is approximately 1.4 meg, and can be downloaded at the following URL:
www.sharecg.com/v/31408/Poser/1950s-TV-with-Rabbit-Ears
This download has been tested to work in IE6 and Free Download Manager ( www.freedownloadmanager.org ).
So why all the hoopla? Well, I don't like TV much, and besides, a thread title like "Free 50's TV" isn't nearly as interesting.
*****README FOR THE 1950's TV*****
What it is:
------------
This is a 1950's-style Television, loosely patterned after a few models of Zenith TV's that were available later in the decade. Textures include test patterns, snow screens, and a blank screen template you can use to make your own screens. If you do not adjust the size of the template when you use it, the resulting image will have the same resolution as a real TV image.
Note: The TV is about 4 meg or so, because the numbers on the channel dials are actually modeled, rather than textured. In experimenting with making the TV, I discovered that if you want to do an extreme close-up of a hand reaching for the dial, you need about a 4 meg texture for it to come out crystal clear every time, because they are actually pretty small. So, I just said "to hell with it" and modeled the numbers as part of the dials.
Additional Note: This style of TV was common through into the early 1980's. It did not need an external antenna, because it had an internal antenna. If you needed better reception, you usually connected it to a 'mast' antenna on the roof of your house using ladder wire (or, for apartment dwellers, a set of rabbit ears). However, the download includes a 1950's-style set of rabbit-ears, smart-propped to the 1950's TV I released the other day. The base was made of cast iron so it wouldn't flip over, while the ball and the antenna tips were made of bakelite. Four morphs are included, two for each antenna - one retracts the antenna, while the other lowers it.
IMPORTANT NOTE: This item REQUIRES Poser 5 or higher, because it makes use of the poser 'noise' Material Node as part of the procedural textures used on the model. If you try to use this in earlier versions of Poser or in DAZ Studio it won't work, you'll have to re-texture the whole thing, you'll be screaming and cursing and crying and tearing your hair out, it'll be a horrible experience that will likely leave lasting mental scars. To spare you that kind of trauma, I'm warning you now - this item REQUIRES Poser 5 or higher, because it makes use of Procedural Material Nodes.
What you can do with it:
------------------------
1) You're free to use this model in any render, non-commericial or commercial.
2) You may not sell the model itself, either individually or as part of a compilation.
3) If you re-post this model on your website or as part of a free compilation, the archive must include this readme file.
How to use it:
--------------
First, extract this archive to your Poser runtime directory. The files will fall into the following directories:
The TV will appear under Runtime:Libraries:Props:1950's_TV
Extra screen textures will appear under Runtime:textures:Jim's Custom Textures:TV
Helpful Tip: Feel free to move the files wherever you need them to go, based on how you've organized your Poser folders. On my machine, my runtime is into double-digit gigs, I'd never find anything just letting stuff randomly install, I'd end up with a mess of folders and never remember where anything was. So, I have a pretty extensive and exacting folder arrangement to help me find things. For example, on my machine, the TV falls under :Runtime:libraries:props:Buildings and Furniture:18th to 21st Century:Furniture:Television. Just don't change the location of the textures or the obj file for the files, and they will work no matter where you put them in your folder arrangement.
After you've arranged the files where you want them (and deleted folders you don't need in your directory structure), open Poser. To use the TV, simply load it like any other prop. You can apply a different screen texture in the Material room.
IMPORTANT NOTE: Some versions of Poser will ask you to locate Glass_Reflection_map.png when you load the TV for the first time. If this happens, you can find this texture under libraries>Materials>Glass. Simply re-save the TV afterwards, and your version of Poser will not ask you to find it again. If you want the Thumbnail in the library to be back to the original after saving, simply drag a copy of it from the zip file into the folder you installed the TV into, replacing the thumbnail with the one from the archive. =)
Who made it:
------------
©2007 Jim Farris, All Rights Reserved
www.jim-farris.com
*****END OF README FOR THE 1950's TV*****