Sparky's items for HiveWire Dog

[Flint_Hawk]

Thank you for the update Sparky. I'm sure sorry to hear of your computer problems!

 

[Sparky]

I thought I'd do a prettier test with the LAMH preset, had to make sure it worked on the cub, too. LOL

 

[Ivory Elephant]

Can't wait for this to hit your store Sparky anything more down the pipe?

 

[Miss B]

Awwww sweeeet, Sparky.

 

[JOdel]

So we have lions, and tigers, and bears! Oh my!

 

[Sparky]

Fur preset works with the rug morph, too.

 

[Dreamer]

Are we going to be able to dforce the Bear rug to drape it over things?

 

[Sparky]

I don't know if you could simulate it. I pulled most of the geometry out so that it would be visible on the top, the underside is not very pretty, and I don't think it would behave very well during simulation, the self collisions would cause artifacts. It could work in some cases, though, if you're only simulating parts of it.

 

[Dreamer]

Thanks Sparky Guess I'll just have to have a play and see what happens hehe

 

[JOdel]

That is *Excellent*.
Now someone needs to make a tiger rug as well.

 

[Sparky]

Bears are up!

Bears for the HiveWire Big Dog
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[JOdel]

Got 'em. Looks great!

 

[Miss B]

That is *Excellent*.
Now someone needs to make a tiger rug as well.

Hmmmm, now THAT's an interesting thought. Hmmmm . . .

 

[carmen indorato]

Bears are up!

Bears for the HiveWire Big Dog
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Normally love your offerings dear and have always said so...for years!.....but these bears without the hair simulation look kinda funky especially in those neck folds. I have several bears by other content creators and none look this funky. If his is not a render issue any way to soften them if not using the hair simulator. Love the bearskin rug especially with the hair simulator but since I won't be using that is there going to be a better fur texture to make the rug look more realistic?

 

[JOdel]

Check for fur shaders. I know there are some out there. Might need to deal with postwork since you may not want it on the head, and would probably want it shorter on the paws.

I've heard of the Poser Hair room. Is that a possibility?

 

[Sparky]

I don't have the tiger, but here's a jaguar rug. ^.^

Also, the fur bulk morphs are meant to create that area of hard shadow, because the most common way to use non-furred models is to do a bit of brushing out in postwork, and it helps to have that area of high contrast to brush into. Otherwise, you have to paint the shadows in as well. If you don't like the fur bulk shape, it is a separate morph that can be used as little or as much as you like.

Here is the bear promo with less than 30 seconds of (very not careful) brushing out with the smudge brush.

 

[Miss B]

Ohhhh, nicely done Sparky.

 

[Sparky]

Thanks, Miss B! ^.^

Also re: bear's funky fur bulk shape. Yes, the "folds" can be smoothed, it's not part of the texturing. Here's a quick look at the bear with less and no fur bulk dialed in. On the left, 40%, and on the right, vanilla base bear shape.

 

[JOdel]

So the rug morph can be added to any of the cats or dog models?

 

[Sparky]

Well, yes and no. I had to adjust the morph to work on the big cat. Here's what it looked like before I fixed it LOL. I would have to do a similar fix for it to work on the base dog as well. Doesn't take much doing, though.