For those who are interested, here are the WIPs I posted on the old forum of the Hippogriff I started on.
That's just amazing. I can't wait to see more as you progress.
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RELEASED Hivewire Big Cat Has Begun!
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That's just amazing. I can't wait to see more as you progress.
carmen indorato
Extraordinary
Hi Lynne.
As Promised i did fnd a kitten morph by Daio for the MilCat.
You cn get it here.
Holiday Kittens by Daio Poser Seasonal/Holiday
Hope this works
nDelphi
Admirable
I so wish someone would work on a fur product for DAZ Studio that didn't crash so often. LAMH for me is a no go. Too many wasted hours chasing crashes after crashes. I was so frustrates I lashed out on the DAZ 3D forums. In a way I feel bad, but it has been so long and that bug has never fixed.
The other fur product doesn't seem to have been a success for the developer and he pretty much said he was off to better pastures, that pretty much told me to stay away. I have had way too many abandoned plugins to keep wasting my money on them.
This cat looks awesome, but I think these animals need fur.
The other fur product doesn't seem to have been a success for the developer and he pretty much said he was off to better pastures, that pretty much told me to stay away. I have had way too many abandoned plugins to keep wasting my money on them.
This cat looks awesome, but I think these animals need fur.
I think Studio plugins are quite subject to interference from the environment. On my old computer, LAMH crashed every time I tried to enter its edit mode. I worked with the developer to isolate the problem, but there were just too many variables, and he couldn't reproduce the error. On my new computer, it seems to work quite well. Software glitches can be elusive. It's one of the scariest and most frustrating things about being a developer, especially when you're building on a code base you can't control.
I've had this for years...it's not QUITE right... and I'm hoping the NEW big cat will be able to either be dialed into a kitten (will if it has MORE NECK SECTIONS, I think!) or will indeed have a kitten morph made from it in the future...
There is always using Displacement fur using shadermixer but it's not as nice as curve hair. I do remember that there was supposed to be an experimental curve allowed for but you had to build it in ShaderBuilder....unfortunately that's past my level of expertise...I did get a network happening using displacement fur in Shadermixer. It was what Marieah used to create furify and also the fur on the supersuit was then based on Furify but as been improved. If you import it into shadermixer you can see the furify name on the top of the tab.
I'm not sure if there's any other alternatives to the fur, nDelphi. I have the exact opposite situation from you. For me, Garibaldi is a guaranteed crash anytime I try to use it, while LAMH is an absolute dream to work with. Yeah, it can be quirky, but the only two issues I've run across, I've nailed down concrete and been able to reproduce intentionally, so I know what NOT to do with it.
Maybe a fibermesh might work for the fur? I would be hesitant to try fibermesh on an animal's fur, though, because from what I can tell, fibermesh hairs can be very taxing on a system's resources.
I don't blame you one bit about abandoned plugins, either.
Code bases that you can't control, and the fact that no two computers ever have the exact same running environment...
That makes me curious, actually. I have Marieah's Furify shaders... I've never tried to use them on an animal though, for some reason. I might have to give it a try and just see what I get. LOL
Nice!!! I'm alwaysat those that can model. I have never tried to be very honest, but it know it is time consuming. Its an art of its own.
Hi Kimberly. If I haven't said welcome yet - welcome!
Modeling is an art form to itself, you are SO right about that! In a way, UVmapping is it's own art form, too. Some modelers are great at producing mesh, but can't produce a UV to save their lives (I'm guilty of this at the moment!), and others are good at UVs but not so much with the mesh.
It's a tough skillset for sure! Chris is really good at it. We are very lucky to have him modeling these critters. ^_^
I will def. want to try doing a LAMH preset for our Big Cat at some point but I also plan to do a pretty sleek base set of textures as well- I aim to make them look pretty darn good without any dynamic hair. I do have a challenge ahead of me! It is going to take all the skills I've ever learned, but my goal is to make these as gorgeous as I can, with and/or without DH.
Her furify was based off a network I did for the milcat but you needed to sub d and also play around with shader rates to get a good result'. I was never really totally happy with it as it really needed separate areas instead of one fur area to get the point brick to point the fur in the right direction. Mariah managed to get the point brick to work reasonably well but there were still issues. Curves are a much better solution in 3delight than displacement. edited to add you also need a really good displacement map.
Work from today and tonight. About thru the tough stuff now.
To comment on above. This base Panther/Leopard is not planned to have fur or fiber hair as a base. But as Laurie said she'll product a couple awesome slick maps. The fiber or strain bases stuff can be an add on product after release.
To comment on above. This base Panther/Leopard is not planned to have fur or fiber hair as a base. But as Laurie said she'll product a couple awesome slick maps. The fiber or strain bases stuff can be an add on product after release.
I'm just amazed at how evenly the UVs are spreading around the animal... that's some seriously good UVmapping, Chris.
