• Required Products: Genesis 9 Starter Essentials
  

This magical staff, which carries the power of the dragon's spirit, was designed for Elora Taiyou. The power of the dragon primarily helps this majestic elven woman, serves her faithfully, and protects her in times of trouble thanks to its strength. Because of this, as a Bundle BONUS, if Elora and the Dragon Staff are together, you can even use them as headwear (with an HD3 shaping morph for Genesis 9 and more fitting morphs for the Dragon included with GHD Elora Taiyou for Genesis 9) This way they are even stronger when combined.

It also serves as a perfect accessory for the dForce Royal Sun Wardrobe and Royal Sun Updo, accordingly, the set also contains suitable material presets in the Royal Sun color scheme.

There are several ways to use the dragon staff. There are 3 types of internal sparkles (single, small group, and a larger group) that can swirl inside the sphere, a smaller group of sparkles can fly around the sphere, or a larger mass of sparkles can even take on the shape of a dragon.

The spirit of the dragon comes to the aid of its wearer in the form of VDB, which can even be sent to the enemy. After the staff reflects on the wearer, it can take on different colors, like the orb, sparkles, or even the spirit of the dragon. To this end, the set contains various presets.

Sparkles can appear mainly in cold, warm, elven, and magical colors, but amber and fire can also be found. Hierarchical material presets help us not have to search and choose what we want to change, but to be able to use the sparks without the staff, there are also separate material presets for changing both the color scheme and the brightness on any of the sparkles (you have to select the sparkle for this).

The spirit of the dragon can also take on the usual, cold, warm, elven, and magical colors, but in addition, the colors amber, azure, fire, scarlet, and turquoise can be found in its repertoire. In addition, the VDB itself can be changed (2 variations) and there are 6 ways to style the emission.

There are 3 sets you can load. The staff itself only. Selecting this, you can apply any of the needed elements, they will be smart-parented to the sphere (orb). There is a set with the Dragon, where the Dragon hugs the Sphere. (the back claw will change its position automatically) And the FULL Set, which includes one of the inner sparkles (small group), the sparkles around the sphere, the dragon sparkles, and the spirit of the dragon itself. (Hide or remove the parts you don't want to use)

7 Hierarchical Material Presets help to change the staff with the dragon, you can also change the handle, the spheres, or the dragon itself as needed.

There are 2 types of the Spheres. One is the “Frosted”. This includes an inner glow (Sphere Energy). With this, the inner sparkles are not useful, but there are 9 material presets to change the Energy Strength to make the glow stronger or weaker.

To use the Inner Sparkles the way intended, you have to change the Sphere material to the other style … Sphere for Sparkles (4 options) where the inner glow is turned off and the Sphere itself is more transparent.

To facilitate the use of the staff, there are 6 wearable presets for Genesis 8 Female (Left and Right), Genesis 9 (Left and Right), and because of her stature, Elora Taiyou (Left and Right). The hand poses are also included.

I know that's a lot of information, but don't worry, a reminder is available from the Content Library or Smart Content inside Daz Studio.

Below is a list of the installation package types provided by this product. The name of each package contains a Package Qualifier, which is used as a key to indicate something about the contents of that package.

• 1 Core ¹⁾

[ ] = Optional, depending on target application(s)

Not all installation packages provide files that are displayed to the user within the interface of an application. The packages listed below, do. The application(s), and the location(s) within each application, are shown below.

• You can find new icons for loading this product in the following DAZ Studio Folders:
  • “People:Genesis 9:Props:3D-GHDesign:Elora Taiyou Staff”
  • “People:Genesis 9:Props:3D-GHDesign:Elora Taiyou Staff:Iray”
  • “People:Genesis 9:Props:3D-GHDesign:Elora Taiyou Staff:Iray:Dragon Spirit VDB”
  • “People:Genesis 9:Props:3D-GHDesign:Elora Taiyou Staff:Wearables”

• You can find new icons for this product in the following DAZ Studio Categories:
  • “Documents”
  • “Materials:Iray:Props”
  • “Poses:By Function:Grasp”
  • “Poses:By Region:Partial Body:Hands”
  • “Props:Effects:Fire”
  • “Props:Furnishings:Decor”
  • “Props:Lights”
  • “Props:Weapons:Staffs”

• The Orb (Sphere) is not visible in the viewport, only with Iray render.

• The Hierarchical material presets for the Inner Sparkle work only the first loaded one. If you use more inner sparkles, use the included material presets instead and select the sparkle(s) itself at first before apply the setting. These material settings (both color and strength options) works on EVERY Sparkles, not just the Inner ones, but the Sparkles Around and the Dragon Sparkles too. Only need to select the corresponding “Elora Taiyou Staff Sparkle” to apply the presets.

• There are 3 sets you can load. The staff itself only. Selecting this, you can apply any of the needed elements, they will smart-parented to the sphere (orb). There is a set with the Dragon, where the Dragon hugs the Sphere. (the back claw will change its position automatically) And the FULL Set, which includes one of the inner sparkles (small group), the sparkles around the sphere, the dragon sparkles and the spirit of the dragon itself. (Hide or remove tha parts you don't want to use)

• There are 2 type of the Spheres. One is the “Frosted”. This includes an inner glow (Sphere Energy). With this, the inner sparkles are not useful, but there are 9 material presets to change the Energy Strength to make the glow stronger or weaker.

• For using the Inner Sparkles the way as intended, you have to change the Sphere material to the other style … Sphere for Sparkles (4 options) where the inner glow is turned off and the Sphere itself is more transparent.

• I know, that's a lot of information, but don't worry, a reminder is available from the Content Library or Smart Content inside Daz Studio.

• Use Bloom Effect for more spectacular look.

• And do not forget to grab GHD Elora Taiyou for Genesis 9 so you can use the Dragon as headwear with its additional fitting morphs and a HD3 Genesis 9 detail morph for claws.

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