General

A highly detailed, photo realistic 3D model of St Edward's Crown. If you ever wanted to interact with the Crown Jewels in a way that has never been seen before, this is the model for you! This model was constructed over many long months and used many resources for it's construction, including access to a rare 2 volume collectors book The Crown Jewels: The History of the Coronation Regalia in the Jewel House of the Tower of London by Claude Blair. Through this book and other photographs/videos/etc, we have succeeded in creating the most accurate and realistic 3D replica of St Edward's Crown that has ever been seen! Don't believe us? Check through the preview images above and see for yourself. Every gemstone facet, every gemstone mount, and every silver & gold ornament has been meticulously recreated in its entirety. A level of detail and polish never seen before on any other 3D replica of the crown jewels!

Learn more about St Edward's Crown here -> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Edward%27s_Crown

Learn more about The Crown Jewels by Claude Blair here -> https://www.univ.ox.ac.uk/news/crown-jewels/

Technical

• The model consists of 2 separate assets/collections -> Display / Crown. The 'Display' collection houses the display case, lights, camera, and environment meshes. The 'Crown' collection contains all of the meshes pertaining to the cap & frame of the crown.

• The 'Crown' collection is further split into 2 parts. the velvet and ermine cap and the gold frame. The gold frame contains 3 main sub-components - Band, Crest, & Arches. The Monde and Cross can be found under the Arches sub-component.

• The general mesh geometry is polygonal in nature, and it is not recommended to perform any subdivision surface modifiers to any meshes present in the file.

• Many of the textures for the model are PBR and the materials/shaders have been specially engineered to provide the most realistic look between different lighting environments. Some meshes have UVs unwrapped for textures, others do not.

• Model is scaled according to centimeter units X10 (eg: 30cm in real life = 3m in .blend file) and is proportionally 1:1 verses the real object. Simply scale the entire object down to 10% to match real world scaling.

• Provided in native format (.blend), as well as in .dae and .fbx. The .blend has the textures packed within the file to enable painless setup and easy file sharing. It should be noted that the provided .dae & .fbx files are only intended for easy model/mesh importation with other programs and will likely only import with material colors. If you are using exchange formats (.dae/.fbx), please refer to the archived textures.zip file for the textures.

• Exchange formats (.dae/.fbx) do not contain any components intrinsic to the 'Display' collection and only contain the meshes in the 'Crown' collection. If you require that the 'Display' components be exported alongside the 'Crown' components, please don't hesitate to get in contact with us and we'll see what we can do!

If you require any assistance with your purchase, need a different file format provided, or have any general questions or concerns about this or other models we are supplying, feel free to get in touch with us and we'll respond back whenever possible :)