-------------------------------------- Product Name: Steam Dragon Copyright 05-08-2011 (c) Robert Blanda By: Robert Blanda Contact: Cybertenko -------------------------------------- System Requirements: PC, Poser 6 and higher, (not tested on MAC) -------------------------------------- Product Description: Steam powered mechanical Rifle model 1889 Steam Dragon is most famous weapon produced by Scott Calaghan´s Steamwork Enterprises. Calaghan´s Factory was until the year 1899 the second largest producer of steam machineries. Calaghan was not that good inventor and construor is his main competitor John Hartwig, but he was definitely better merchant and vendor. Although his product was not taht good as Hartwig´s he managed to persuade many goverment to purchase his products as main state army weaponry. So this was the case also with Steam Dragon, interesting concept, but poor construction and realization. The main downside of this weapon was badly done inner mechanism and steampressure pumps which took so much inner space, that water boiler need be moved aside from weapons axis. That caused significant instability of the gun and further its considerable imprecission. Although the gun had big punch and long effective range, it can hardly hit anything for such a distance. The former targeting telescope was totaly useless and was early chamged for simply targeting cross which was far more effective and much cheaper. Steam Dragon was used mainly on tripod or bipod supports, since it can helped to better handling and therefore for better accuracy. The second main downside - imperfect heating system caused a lot of thick smoke which gave away soldiers location quite easily. For that some other smoke dispension was searched until smoke diffuser was invented as good method how to get rid of unwanted smoke columns. Further was Steam Dragon equiped with Hartwig´s steam condenser, which consumed most of steam vapors bscuring soldier´s vision after the shot. Calaghan´s Steam Dragon uses Gatling´s principle of rotating barrels as well as for synchronizing loading procedure and building steam pressure before each shot. After several years in service soldiers found better use for troubled weapon and this weas as closequarter heavy duty weapon. It was used by stromtrooper units for clearing trenches, bunkers, ship decks and so on. It was often equpied with various kinds of bayonets, various capacities of magazines and other modifications. It was used even ater purchase of Calaghan´s Factories by John Hartwig, which made several improvements to this popular but controversial weapon. Hartwig produced even hybrid variant with steam powered loading procedure but conventional chemical ammunition, but this variant was not that successful. Ownership Statement: All of this product's content was created by Robert Blanda and may include derivatives of the following vendor/merchant resources: Royalty free textures from www.cgtextures.com,FALLOUTIC: Rust Textures by Coflek-Gnorg, 200 Rusty Materials Vol 11 by WhopperNnoonWalker. Enforcer Helmet texture used with permission of Coflek-Gnorg. -------------------------------------- Installation Instructions: Poser: Unzip into any poser runtime. You will find the items in Character, Pose and Props folders named Steam Dragon. Geometries, Reflection Maps and Textures are stored in respective folders. -------------------------------------- Usage Tips or Limitations: You will get model of steam powered mechanical rifle Steam Dragon in three variant presets (infantry, mounted or stormtrooper), but you can make your own variant withs provided prop parts. Most of props are parented to Steam Dragon Body, so you can just load them to main figure in any order. Mounted and M4 variants differes only by position of main gun figure, so you should be able to aply any prop to any variant. But there are proips divided into M4´s two variant and mounted variant. You can apply desired material poses to any gun figure and material poses work also for gunbody material zone at tripod. So if you want for example brass finsihed gun on the same tripod, just apply brass material pose to selected steam gun figure, and than to selected tripod figure. For additional props you can either use provided material poses (working only when figure is present on scene) or sample desired material in material room and apply it desired location. Except shields all materials are tiled so you can change them as desired. For using gun with M4, you need to load the gun and M4 in any order, than apply "Shoulder Fire" Base pose to M4, then parent Steam Dragon figure to M4 right hand and then you can apply any other shootinh pose to M4 - or even use different rifle pose form other products, you only need to reposition left hand so it will hold the off-hand handle. For using mounted variant, just load Steam Dragoun Mounted variant and M4 in any order and then apply "Mounted Operator" pose to M4 a parent M4 to tripod (or vice versa). For the mounted variant steam dragon figure is parented to tripod´s bodypart gun mount (same as mounted shield prop is parented to this bodypart) and hose figure is parented to steam dragon figure. If you want to move gun on tripod, you can either use ERC channels on tripod body or directional dials in gunmount bodypart. The hose is modeled ar articulated figure and boths its end needs be repostioned if gun is moved. For Steam Dragon itself, there are ERC channels for rotating the barrels and moving the trigger. Except that, you can fold down the stack, if needed or hide it with use of smoke diffuser prop. Same off-hand handle and stock bodyparts can be hidden in use with tripod mount and special tripod mount trigger adapter. On tripod you can hide smoke diffuser or even the seat for different look. For infantry variant there is optional bipod support which can be opened through ERC channel on the body. One or more textures on this 3D model have been created with images from CGTextures.com. These images may not be redistributed by default, please visit www.cgtextures.com for more information. For Military Green texture was used Enforcer Helmet Texture with perimission of Coflek-Gnorg. Thanks. -------------------------------------- Files Included in the Product: \Promos main promo.jpg Steam Dragon promo 1.jpg Steam Dragon promo 2 CONCEPT.jpg Steam Dragon promo 3 CONCEPT.jpg Steam Dragon promo 4 CONCEPT.jpg Steam Dragon promo 5 CONCEPT.jpg Steam Dragon promo 6 MATERIALS.jpg Steam Dragon promo 7 MATERIALS.jpg Steam Dragon promo 8 POSES.jpg Steam Dragon promo 9 EXAMPLES.jpg \runtime\Documentation License.txt Steam_Dragon_README.txt \runtime\Geometries\Steam Dragon Ammo Crate.obj Ammo Crate_Lid.obj Bayonet.obj Bipod1.obj Hose 1.obj Magazine 145.obj Magazine 370.obj Magazine 75.obj MagRack M4RH.obj Mount Shield.obj Smoke Diffuser.obj Steam Condenser.obj Steam Dragon Mounted.obj Steam Dragon Tripod.obj Steam Dragon.obj Stormshield.obj Targeting Cross.obj Telescope.obj Trigger.obj \runtime\Libraries\Character\Steam Dragon Steam Dragon Infantry.cr2 Steam Dragon Infantry.png Steam Dragon Mounted.cr2 Steam Dragon Mounted.png Steam Dragon Stormtrooper.cr2 Steam Dragon Stormtrooper.png \runtime\Libraries\pose\Steam Dragon\M4 ! 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