Monday, 20 August 2007

Furniture Pack Vol 1 Review


The recently released iClone Furniture Pack Volume 1 is a collection of 70+ home and office props. The pack is modern in style with designs that wouldn’t be out of place in your local Ikea. The download is 46mb in size and requires a serial when installing.

Once the pack is installed you will find it in the Props section, in its own folder called Furniture V1. Within this folder there will be 6 sub-folders named Bed (5 items), Chair, (14 items), Partition (18 items), Shelf (5 Items), Sofa (25 items) and Table (11 items).

The props in this set are ideal for office scenes, living room scenes or bedroom scenes. There is no kitchen furniture included or dining room props but many chairs could double for other uses etc. The strongest elements in the pack are the office props and with these it is possible to recreate a real variety of great office scenes and if you have the Working Fashion Theme Pack then you have everything you need to create office set movies.

The thing that stands out about this pack is its quality. Everything in this pack is first rate with realistic looking models and great textures that when rendered look really impressive.

One thing I realised once I tried out this pack is that there is a shortage of lying down poses or animations. Trying to get my characters to look natural in the horizontal position on the beds wasn’t quite as easy as I first thought and so I’ve had to create a few simple poses in the motion editor to get by but it certainly would be nice to have a motion pack dedicated to relaxation and sleeping poses. Maybe one will come out soon or I may create my own if I can find the time.

Overall this pack is first rate. A total of 78 props for $39.95 (£25.78 in the UK with the dreaded 19% tax added on) this is fantastic value for money and a top notch addition to your library.

You can check out full details of what is included and screenshots of all the items here:

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