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RELEASED Hivewire Big Cat Has Begun!
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You're probably right JOdel.
Thanks so much all! This is definitely the biggest/hardest challenge I've ever taken on (just HAD to be a Leopard or Jaguar first Lions and tigers and etc will be a piece of cake next to this
I've always been into making the "color" map the most critical factor/it MUST be able to stand on it's own before I even start all the "perks". Without it one can make all the bump and spec and etc maps one wants, but without a good diffuse (color) map it all falls apart. My old Mil Horse maps were ONLY color maps- no bump and so forth.
Would be great to see LAMH for Poser too! Will add my voice over there. Def would be a kick to see ANY hair add-ons for this guy!
Laurie
Lions and tigers and etc will be a piece of cake next to thisI've always been into making the "color" map the most critical factor/it MUST be able to stand on it's own before I even start all the "perks". Without it one can make all the bump and spec and etc maps one wants, but without a good diffuse (color) map it all falls apart. My old Mil Horse maps were ONLY color maps- no bump and so forth.
Would be great to see LAMH for Poser too! Will add my voice over there. Def would be a kick to see ANY hair add-ons for this guy!
Laurie
Gobsmack me! I SO totally could not do this if Chris didn't have some seriously mad UV mapping skills as well as modeling skills! (I could tell you a heck of a story about the UV mapping of a particular non HW product....let's just say bang head against wall...again and again)
Zaarin
Brilliant
I know I bugged them about it for a couple years. These days the DAZ forums kind of scare me...I'm almost positive that if "Poser" isn't in the swear filter, saying it is a bannable offense.PS. I did just ask Alex and Ken if there was a LAMH for Poser. They have the code but they just haven't released it as of yet because they are afraid they won't break even on it once it's released. So if you really really want it done you have to go over to the DAZ forums and beg and plead. I asked and that's what I got mentioned to me....
In my experience Poser's strand hair doesn't seem to look good, either in shape or in terms of shaders (and Superfly's hair shader makes it look like it's made of twigs
). But maybe I'm just terrible at it...
Seems a little silly not to release it, if they don't think they would break even at least they would get some many back on their hard work. (They should just sell it through their website so all proceeds go straight to them if they are worried about it)PS. I did just ask Alex and Ken if there was a LAMH for Poser. They have the code but they just haven't released it as of yet because they are afraid they won't break even on it once it's released. So if you really really want it done you have to go over to the DAZ forums and beg and plead. I asked and that's what I got mentioned to me....
The DAZ forums went through a long spell where they almost seem to have adopted the stance that Poser didn't even exist. And if it did exist they certainly weren't going to encourage it. Or not more than the bare minimum to make it possible to still use their own figures in it. And iirc, DSON wasn't released for some months after Studio 4.0 and Genesis 1 launched.
Genesis was a major game changer and it was theirs, so they were committed to it. Plus, outside vendors to a large extent wouldn't touch it with a 10-foot pole, so they focused, and let everything else kind of slide.
Over the last year, year and a half, outside vendors have gingerly been taking up Genesis 2, and when Genesis 3 launched (with no Poser support whatsoever) and seems to have hit fairly big, DAZ seems to have decided that they can relax a bit and admit the continued existence of Poser. I suspect the RDNA merger was partly in hopes of luring the Poser crowd back.
Back onto the subject at hand, Mortem Vetus has a Poser hair product in the DAZ store now and it looks excellent. It was over on RDNA previously, so you've probably seen it. I never much envied Poser's hair room, the way I did their dynamic cloth but I think I could work up a bit of jealousy what with Tiny's fluffy cat (and Gorilla) and things like that package of beards.
Genesis was a major game changer and it was theirs, so they were committed to it. Plus, outside vendors to a large extent wouldn't touch it with a 10-foot pole, so they focused, and let everything else kind of slide.
Over the last year, year and a half, outside vendors have gingerly been taking up Genesis 2, and when Genesis 3 launched (with no Poser support whatsoever) and seems to have hit fairly big, DAZ seems to have decided that they can relax a bit and admit the continued existence of Poser. I suspect the RDNA merger was partly in hopes of luring the Poser crowd back.
Back onto the subject at hand, Mortem Vetus has a Poser hair product in the DAZ store now and it looks excellent. It was over on RDNA previously, so you've probably seen it. I never much envied Poser's hair room, the way I did their dynamic cloth but I think I could work up a bit of jealousy what with Tiny's fluffy cat (and Gorilla) and things like that package of beards.
Chris, is this kitty rigged and done? What I mean is: when can I get my hands on this???
OMG!! Tiny and the HiveWire kitty!! Now THAT's a great combination I look foward to.Chris, is this kitty rigged and done? What I mean is: when can I get my hands on this???
Hey TinyChris, is this kitty rigged and done? What I mean is: when can I get my hands on this???
Not rigged yet and I have a LONG way to go yet on getting the textures done. Def into you getting your hands on this when we're ready though!!!! You will make him SO gorgeous!!!
Ok, no rush.
Zaarin
Brilliant
Yes, I have to admit those beards are pretty fantastic--though sadly they still look like twigs in Superfly.
Poser's dynamic cloth is the #3 reason I could never switch from Poser to DAZ Studio (the #1 reason is that DS's UI makes absolutely no sense to me whatsoever--but that's personally preference--and #2 is I absolutely love Poser's material room--it seems, in my extraordinarily limited experience, much more flexible and versatile than DS's). I have to admit that the iRay renders I've seen seem to have a bit of an edge over Superfly, though; Superfly seems to barely register bump maps and displacement maps, which are pretty integral for realism.