[QUOTE="WOW! Gorgeous images!! =) Thanks so much for sharing them and welcome back to 3D! I really love the first one and I could see that framed over a door space. I have a similar body type to the Akhal Teke juvenile in the Growing Up Thoroughbred morph set that should be out soonish, but have been working sporadically on the larger version trying to get that unusual body style is difficult just using the dial morphs as it's more off a trapezoid shape. I also wish there were some nice veins and muscle definition for the HiveWire Horse sort of like your toned and body builder morphs that you have for the human models . I Love Ronnie!!! Rae has been twisting my arm to try and do a Welsh/Irish Cob! I also have a Gypsy Vanner Morph from Harry/Draft/Foal that is nearly done in Daz and my custom toony char Bubbles. I just have to figure out how to convert them over to Poser!
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NapalmArsenal this is Ronnie in real life, he's actually a Welsh section c, the smaller version of the welsh cob, we've had him for 12 years now since her was a very moth eaten 2 year old. Even though he is only 13.2hh (top size for a c) he has the biggest personality of any horse I know and is definitely the boss of our 5. We also have Cruz a Welsh section d (from a very gangly ugly yearling) who is now a very handsome "proper" welsh cob - the attached render is of a character I built around him for the Daz Horse 2, but was never happy with the legs. We also have 2 little welsh section a ponies and a bonkers, won't accept her age thoroughbred whose hobby is causing mayhem, being a 21 year old diva and running up huge vet bills haha.
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I've just had a look at your Growing Up Thoroughbred morph set, very nicely done! it's so hard to capture that age between foal and adult. The 3 of ours we've had from youngsters looked like different shaped horses week by week, I was seriously concerned about how large Cruz's head was at one time and how narrow his chest was, he looked like a donkey instead of a red in the purple cob lol.
I'm finding with the Akhal Teke character that there are some problems with the mesh deforming badly in some poses which I'm trying to find a way around, probably because it is so extreme in the long legs and neck. I thought I'd gotten around that by not adding the scaling to the morph but adding scaling control dials and by adjusting the bones to the shape. I haven't gotten around to trying to get everything working in Poser yet, in fact I haven't opened Poser for at least a couple of years as I'm so much more comfortable with the DS interface. I've only just had to relearn how to create ERC dials for the scaling morphs so one step at a time haha.
I'd love some good displacement maps for the vascularity, chestnuts and all the little bumps and wrinkles around the mouth. I made one but it didn't really work out as I wanted it to so it's back to the drawing board with that but it's on my list.
One other problem I'm having is the mane not fully following the morphed mesh, I got around that a while ago with my "continental heavy", but my sieve like memory can't recall how.
Love your Vanner too, have a lot of them around here but not the nice quality types you seem to have more of in the States but they are such nice honest horses, and so much easier temperaments than welshies and thoroughbreds, I keep saying that if I ever get another (if I ever get well enough to ride again) it will be a nice, calm coloured cob
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He's a pretty boy!! Love his markings!! Yeah, for some reason the Welsh guys have bags of personality or at least all of the ones I have been around do. A friend of mine used to have one that changed pastures at the start of summer all on his own LOL. opened the gates and everything. Nice Character I really like his head, but do see what you mean about the legs. Maybe you give him another try with Harry? Cruz is a cutie as well!! =) Nice defined head! LOL yes those TBs can be total Divas!! My cousin's horse Lee used to pitch a fit about everything ah and then there was my fleabitten gray Mare Duchess ......... oh yes she was the Duchess!! The only horse I think that ever tried to bite me!
You are so right! Sometimes they look like gangly teenagers heads too big for their bodies very thin necked and discombobulated and then you look at them in a week and wonder ........... is that the same animal?
Yeah, I have been having the same issue with the neck and limbs. The Gaskins don't agree very well with the down scaling so the only other option might be to take it into a modeling program on some things. Would love it if you could teach me how to create the ERC dials !! That is something I don't know how to do yet.
It's something I have been toying with, but haven't has a chance to really sit down and play with it. Would be nice with the little wrinkles around the mouth and veins around the nose.
Harry is better with that and if you have the foal there is a dial that lets you move the mane so that it's flush with the lower neck, I always use the adjust height dial that helps some.
Thanks on the Vanner!! Not many Vanners around here mostly Quarter Horses there's a bunch of cutting and roping horses and several arenas around where I live, mules, and TBs as the race tracks are not too far away. The only one I have been around rather reminded me of a big dog instead of a horse with it's personality. More of a companion and best friend lol and she loved hugs!! Well, I do hope you get well enough to do that again!! ((Hug))