Post by Xaa on Oct 21, 2006 3:31:59 GMT -5
Here's a set of goodies I made for DiskUs Publishing's "Winter Wonderland" over the years. Click the images to download the items.
This first one is an AM transitor radio made in imitation of a Sony model that was popular in the late 1950's and early 1960's. For those of you who aren't old enough to remember, pocket transistor radios used to be incredibly cool and EVERYONE wanted one - they were the "I-Pods" of their day.
The little wire thing going around the bottom is actually the antenna - it unfolds backwards about sixty degrees or so with a morph. This was so that the radio could be set on a table standing up. The tuner dial is also adjustable (click on the tuner, it also has a morph). This way, you can make it look like your Poser characters are listening to a specific station (assuming this is important to a render).
Once you have the prop loaded in Poser, you can use the Material Room to change the color of the plastic - like most things plastic, these little radios came in several colors. Black was common, but so was red and blue. Just select the "PLASTIC" material, and set the new color that you want.
Pretty cool, I think - and as of this writing, it's the ONLY pocket transistor radio available anywhere for Poser.
Click the image to download the item.
This next one is a vacuum tube - it's a dual triode vaccum tube, in fact. In it's day, it was cutting edge technology, combining two triodes into one tube, and allowing radios and TV's to be made smaller and a bit cheaper. It's fairly well detailed and will render well even in extreme close-up. If you have any old-time radio or TV props for poser and you want to have a character look like they're fixing it, well, this is the goodie you need. Or if you just need a vaccuum tube to plug into something to give it that "retro-tech" look, well, here you go. Many modern-day amplifiers used in the music industry also use vacuum tubes, because tubes give a more "mellow" sound.
And, again, it's the ONLY vacuum tube prop available for Poser anywhere, as of this writing.
Click the image to download the item.
This next one is a bottle of "Mullen's Liniment", a Patent Medicine from about WWI. Patent Medicines were extremely popular in the 19th century through into the early 20th century, when they were finally banned by the Pure Food and Drug Act and other legislation to try to shape up the drug industry here in the US. Most Patent Medicines contained opium, and Mullins Patent Medicine contained both Opium and Chloroform, and was 66% alcohol (132 proof). Needless to say, whatever the hell it was that was bothering you to make you drink it damn well didn't bother you anymore after a few shots.
This item is pretty much ideal for any "Old West" or "Victorian" character, and again, it's the ONLY bottle of patent medicine available for Poser as of this writing.
There are five morphs to adjust the level of the liquid inside the bottle (and, of course, the color of the liquid can be changed using the Material Room). The morphs include pouring with the bottle horizontal, pouring with the bottle vertical, lowering the level of the liquid, hiding the liquid (making the bottle look empty), and hiding the cork (for when someone is drinking from it).
Lastly, note that though the bottle label is from the early 20th century, there wasn't much difference in labels from the 19th century, so the bottle can easily be used for pretty much any time period from the middle of the 19th century all the way through to the 1930's, when Patent Medicines began to give way to the first real medicines.
Click the image to download the item.
Next is a 1930's Cathedral Radio, styled after Philco radios of the day. It's one of the smaller ones, made for a desktop or other limited space area, and is the kind of radio you might find in an office or small apartment, sitting on a desk or a corner table.
I should mention that most radios in it's day were a lot larger - some up to four feet tall and three feet wide. Most radios back then were capable of picking up both AM and shortwave. On the AM bands, you could listen to stations from anywhere across the country in the evenings, and on the shortwave bands, you could listen to radio stations from all around the world at any time - and radios back then were often sold with the labels having the major shortwave stations around the world clearly marked. You want to listen to the BBC news from London? Just dial their station and listen. A radio wasn't just a radio, back then, folks. It was the centerpiece of the evening family entertainment. Back then, the family gathered around the radio and listened to live-broadcast shows like "The Lone Ranger" and "The Shadow", among hundreds of others.
Well, this is a smaller version, like you'd find in an office, or in the home of a family that couldn't afford one of those huge four-foot tall behemoths. Not that internally they were much different, no - often they were identical, just the bigger ones had larger speakers and usually got better reception because they had more room for a nice, loooooong antenna inside the cabinet.
Click the image to download the item.
This last one is a 19th-Century globe, styled after a type of popular globe/endtable of 19th Century America. The texture map used is a 19th century map of the world, as well.
Click the image to download the item.
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Enjoy!
This first one is an AM transitor radio made in imitation of a Sony model that was popular in the late 1950's and early 1960's. For those of you who aren't old enough to remember, pocket transistor radios used to be incredibly cool and EVERYONE wanted one - they were the "I-Pods" of their day.
The little wire thing going around the bottom is actually the antenna - it unfolds backwards about sixty degrees or so with a morph. This was so that the radio could be set on a table standing up. The tuner dial is also adjustable (click on the tuner, it also has a morph). This way, you can make it look like your Poser characters are listening to a specific station (assuming this is important to a render).
Once you have the prop loaded in Poser, you can use the Material Room to change the color of the plastic - like most things plastic, these little radios came in several colors. Black was common, but so was red and blue. Just select the "PLASTIC" material, and set the new color that you want.
Pretty cool, I think - and as of this writing, it's the ONLY pocket transistor radio available anywhere for Poser.
Click the image to download the item.
This next one is a vacuum tube - it's a dual triode vaccum tube, in fact. In it's day, it was cutting edge technology, combining two triodes into one tube, and allowing radios and TV's to be made smaller and a bit cheaper. It's fairly well detailed and will render well even in extreme close-up. If you have any old-time radio or TV props for poser and you want to have a character look like they're fixing it, well, this is the goodie you need. Or if you just need a vaccuum tube to plug into something to give it that "retro-tech" look, well, here you go. Many modern-day amplifiers used in the music industry also use vacuum tubes, because tubes give a more "mellow" sound.
And, again, it's the ONLY vacuum tube prop available for Poser anywhere, as of this writing.
Click the image to download the item.
This next one is a bottle of "Mullen's Liniment", a Patent Medicine from about WWI. Patent Medicines were extremely popular in the 19th century through into the early 20th century, when they were finally banned by the Pure Food and Drug Act and other legislation to try to shape up the drug industry here in the US. Most Patent Medicines contained opium, and Mullins Patent Medicine contained both Opium and Chloroform, and was 66% alcohol (132 proof). Needless to say, whatever the hell it was that was bothering you to make you drink it damn well didn't bother you anymore after a few shots.
This item is pretty much ideal for any "Old West" or "Victorian" character, and again, it's the ONLY bottle of patent medicine available for Poser as of this writing.There are five morphs to adjust the level of the liquid inside the bottle (and, of course, the color of the liquid can be changed using the Material Room). The morphs include pouring with the bottle horizontal, pouring with the bottle vertical, lowering the level of the liquid, hiding the liquid (making the bottle look empty), and hiding the cork (for when someone is drinking from it).
Lastly, note that though the bottle label is from the early 20th century, there wasn't much difference in labels from the 19th century, so the bottle can easily be used for pretty much any time period from the middle of the 19th century all the way through to the 1930's, when Patent Medicines began to give way to the first real medicines.
Click the image to download the item.
Next is a 1930's Cathedral Radio, styled after Philco radios of the day. It's one of the smaller ones, made for a desktop or other limited space area, and is the kind of radio you might find in an office or small apartment, sitting on a desk or a corner table.
I should mention that most radios in it's day were a lot larger - some up to four feet tall and three feet wide. Most radios back then were capable of picking up both AM and shortwave. On the AM bands, you could listen to stations from anywhere across the country in the evenings, and on the shortwave bands, you could listen to radio stations from all around the world at any time - and radios back then were often sold with the labels having the major shortwave stations around the world clearly marked. You want to listen to the BBC news from London? Just dial their station and listen. A radio wasn't just a radio, back then, folks. It was the centerpiece of the evening family entertainment. Back then, the family gathered around the radio and listened to live-broadcast shows like "The Lone Ranger" and "The Shadow", among hundreds of others.
Well, this is a smaller version, like you'd find in an office, or in the home of a family that couldn't afford one of those huge four-foot tall behemoths. Not that internally they were much different, no - often they were identical, just the bigger ones had larger speakers and usually got better reception because they had more room for a nice, loooooong antenna inside the cabinet.
Click the image to download the item.
This last one is a 19th-Century globe, styled after a type of popular globe/endtable of 19th Century America. The texture map used is a 19th century map of the world, as well.
Click the image to download the item.
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Enjoy!
