But maybe you want just a normal skull, to litter about your scenes….. well, you can do that too! The set comes with a plain skull material and a myriad of morphs to change the expression and style. The plain skull textures also have baked ambient occlusion for natural depth and shadowing. Additionally, the Jaw on the figure hinges and you can hide the fangs and teeth, or the entire jaw.

Also included as a bonus, is a special drippy candle that rests upon the skull, for your alchemist apothecary’s or an evil queen’s wicked den. The candle has subsurface scattering, and the flame emits light. Easily change the color of the candle as well, as it has its own MATs.

Take your creepiest scenes one step further!

===== LIST OF CONTENTS: =====

Phantoms Skull Figure
* Blank channels for Pose INJ support
* Hinging jaw

Skull MATS
* Natural
* Flamez – Blue
* Flamez – Greek Fire
* Flamez – Orange
* Flamez – Phantom
* Flamez – Purple
* Flamez – Red
* Flamez – Yellow

Skull Utility MATS
* Hide Jaw
* Hide Teeth
* Hide Fangs

Candle MATS
* Black
* Blue
* Green
* Purple
* Red
* Yellow
* White

Props
* Melty Candle (with light emitting flame in PP2012)

===== POSER INSTRUCTIONS: =====

..:: USING THE CONTENTS ::..
Using the contents of this set is pretty simple; just browse to your figures library and locate the “Phantoms” folder within. Just click the Phantoms figure to load.

The skull contains many morphs, which should be dialed from the BODY actor when using (or “Phantoms” in DS) The first set is a series of trail morphs, which are designed to work with the flame materials (as using these on the natural texture would look weird) These morphs will create trails on the figure, which gives it its Phantom look.

The next series of morphs are Expressions, and these can be used with any of the textures (but are more intended for the natural skull texture) These will give the skull personality, whether he looks angry, happy, surprised, etc.

Last but not least, are style morphs. These will change the style of the skull… such as elongating it, giving it an alien look, creating spikes and more.

There are materials for the skull, which are flame colors, natural (to make the skull look normal) and utility mats that will turn off certain pieces, allowing more versatility.

PROPS:
Included in the set is a melty candle, which perches perfectly atop the skull (and parents to it) This is for apothecary styled renders, or a wicked queens lair. There are 7 mat colors for the candle itself, and the flame emits light in Poser 9/2012 or higher. To make it emit light, you must have IDL enabled, and something for it to cast light against.

The candle mats also contain SSS (which will require UberSurface for DS – Poser 9/2012 and SSS enabled on your render settings)

===== OTHER NOTES: =====
Color coded and labeled templates for all figures and props are available, so you can make your own textures.

Skull figure has blank injection channels for custom morph support

The thumbnails for the files are the standard 91X91 resolution, so that they will show properly in DAZ Studio. If you are a poser 5 or higher user and prefer the larger thumbnails (which are 125×125 in size), you can download them here: Phantoms

Please Note:
Bigger thumbnails will NOT work in DAZ Studio, nor lower versions of Poser, so only download these if your using Poser 5 and higher.

Instructions to install larger thumbnails:
These are set up to the same exact locations as the original sets thumbnails. To install, simply unzip it to your Poser Runtime, and overwrite the old thumbnails.