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Development thread - Harry Fitroom Kit
- Thread starter Lyrra Madril
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I'd say it's worth reading through it even without doing the tutorial. Start at mmm chapter 15 ? that's I think where the supplemental chapters start explaining all the stuff I didn't cover in the main step by step bit. After the packing for distribution chapter. The rest of the book after that cover props, additional bones, custom rigs, weightmapped figures, dynamics, fur, troubleshooting, and a bunch of other things that are mainly conceptual but are good to know _before_ starting a project. Actually spacing out the chapters will probably give you more time to mentally absorb each one before adding more concepts in.
Oh and a note - displacement fur in poser11 is currently busted because of changes to how Poser handles displacement. You need to make Normal maps for P11 and not disp.
LM
Oh and a note - displacement fur in poser11 is currently busted because of changes to how Poser handles displacement. You need to make Normal maps for P11 and not disp.
LM
Dreamer
Dream Weaver Designs
@Lyrra Madril what book is this? It sounds really interestinn
Dreamer - "How to Make Clothing for Poser: A Step by Step Guide" It's for sale here in PDF format and on Amazon as Kindle format and in paperback. I think the title says it all really 
But like it says on the tin, I go through one entire project literally step by step, from sketch through modeling and rigging, to the final packing for distribution. And then there is a stack of extra chapters on other stuff like I said above.
Lyne - tomorrow I will write up the tutorial and then do the promo renders. Then it needs to go to my editor and then beta testers and then store testers .... so with luck it should be ready for the store testers to look at in a week or so. Hopefully, if you know, poser doesn't implode or anything Oh and I still need to check MH2. There might be a little DS addendum there.
LM
But like it says on the tin, I go through one entire project literally step by step, from sketch through modeling and rigging, to the final packing for distribution. And then there is a stack of extra chapters on other stuff like I said above. Lyne - tomorrow I will write up the tutorial and then do the promo renders. Then it needs to go to my editor and then beta testers and then store testers .... so with luck it should be ready for the store testers to look at in a week or so. Hopefully, if you know, poser doesn't implode or anything
Oh and I still need to check MH2. There might be a little DS addendum there. LM
well unless DS is lying to me (always possible) I think I have the Milhorse 2 conversion part sorted out as well.
I'll include the export-import two step in the directions as DS doesnt have a Fitting Room. It is however, dead simple.
Time to refit this set with pose and deformers, plus rigging was less than five minutes. Tested on all the mh2 items I have (english saddle, western saddles, bridles, and 3 barding sets) seems to work. You may need to adjust small amount here and there or add a smoothing thing for HW horse breeds. I don't have any breeds so I cant test those, obviously.
LM
I'll include the export-import two step in the directions as DS doesnt have a Fitting Room. It is however, dead simple.
Time to refit this set with pose and deformers, plus rigging was less than five minutes. Tested on all the mh2 items I have (english saddle, western saddles, bridles, and 3 barding sets) seems to work. You may need to adjust small amount here and there or add a smoothing thing for HW horse breeds. I don't have any breeds so I cant test those, obviously.
LM
Glitterati3D
Dances with Bees
Displacement works fine in P11 if you are rendering with the Firefly engine. Superfly, however, does not do microdisplacement unless your object can be subdivided extensively. Converting your maps to Normal maps is pretty easy if you have Photoshop and the free Nvidia normal map filter.
VortigensBane
Busy Bee
Really looking forward to this. Would it rig my custom made saddles for me too? Just kidding...
VortigensBane - well ...actually .... yes, kind of. Jump along in the directions to where the item is fitted and go to the next bit. So for poser, go into the fitroom and follow directions from there, from DS you start at the import obj step. If the saddle is already shaped to Harry, then its straight up rigging from there really, you don't need all the shaping tools in this set. This won't help you with fancy extras like custom rigged reins and whatnot, for that can I suggest my book as mentioned above? *lol*
And also ..
It is now submitted!
This is probably the first time the P4Horse has made it to a promo image in a long long while *lol*
And I am sad .. I had a set of textures for the Charger that were sent to me as a gift by the maker. I don't remember who made them, but they had also made them for Daio's Heavy Horse. Alas, the charger textures didn't make it to my archives and so I have lost them for good. What a shame. At any rate here we have various conversions showing before and after for the Milhorse1, Milhorse 2, Poser4Horse and DAZ Charger. The original horse is always the back one.
LM
And also ..
It is now submitted!
This is probably the first time the P4Horse has made it to a promo image in a long long while *lol*
And I am sad .. I had a set of textures for the Charger that were sent to me as a gift by the maker. I don't remember who made them, but they had also made them for Daio's Heavy Horse. Alas, the charger textures didn't make it to my archives and so I have lost them for good. What a shame. At any rate here we have various conversions showing before and after for the Milhorse1, Milhorse 2, Poser4Horse and DAZ Charger. The original horse is always the back one.
LM
Sorry I've been away dealing with family stuff. As Lyne mentioned I'd love to be able to convert my milhorse costumes to work for Harry. Not sure what the problem is with the Wild Rose. There is a couple of props with it but the main costume is a figure and should respond to magnets.
Daio - oh the body worked just fine. But you had set the Head on the bridle to not bend which drove me crazy until I thought to check for that *lol* Not a big deal in the end, it was just one more thing in a long string of sets that refused to cooperate in one way or another.
LM
LM
VortigensBane
Busy Bee
But I was hoping to get out of rigging altogether... Modelling I can live with.
Modelling I can live with.
You and me both!But I was hoping to get out of rigging altogether...
Well I have the heavy horse, and love it - before Harry it was my Nr1 choice whenever I needed a horse in a scene. Yes I had to use it morphs + one magnet to make it look real, but I loved how easy it was to pose the neck and that it looked like a big and powerfull coldblood breed (I grew up with swedish north horse and the Hh is the closest to look like them <3)
But I do understand not many ppl have the HH or the barding pack. The bardning pack have a bit + rein figure witch is darn easy to use with any figure, just use it as a parent insteed of conforming. I have used it on both Harry and Lynes moose
Great work on the conversions tool - I think its a wonderfull project
But I do understand not many ppl have the HH or the barding pack. The bardning pack have a bit + rein figure witch is darn easy to use with any figure, just use it as a parent insteed of conforming. I have used it on both Harry and Lynes moose
Great work on the conversions tool - I think its a wonderfull project
Dracorn
Inspired
This looks great! I was just looking for some fitting.
I am a little confused though, the first picture looks like the Knightly Barding for Daz Horse 2, but your promo says Mil Horse 2 - is that a typo?
Same beastie ... the original one was the DAZ Millennium Horse and then they made the second one, which is DS only and so I have never used it. Looks like the official name is just DAZ Horse 2. Did I mention I never used it? *lol* Sorry for the confusion
LM
LM
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Tack Conversion Kit for Hivewire Horse
Tack Conversion Kit for Hivewire Horse