Hivewire Horse Mane

[Dream9Studios]

I wasn't sure where to post this question, hope I chose the right forum topic!

Are there any poses for the Hivewire Horse's mane? I'm having the most difficult time posing it myself.

 

[Flint_Hawk]

Alisa posted a video on how to pose the mane, that was done by Laurie on this page:
How The Hivewire Horse (harry) Came To Be.

Also these horse poses, Show Off Poses for the HiveWire Horse by Daio, come with separate poses for the horses mane & tail:
Show Off Poses for the HiveWire Horse - A Daio Creation at HiveWire 3D

 

[Rae134]

I highly recommend Daio's "Show Off Poses" Flint_Hawk gave the link to above, I just love them.

Also while they don't have separate poses for the Manes, any pose by CWRW also poses the Mane and Tails (and are just top poses )
And I'm glad she says her name here, I always wanted to know how to say it lol

 

[Dream9Studios]

Thank you both so much!! I finally got it posed and looking almost right.

Now I'm having trouble with rendering the mane in Superfly. I keep getting a black space under the mane. I've turned shadows off on my lights and turned "visible in raytracing" off on the mane yet I am STILL getting this weird black area on the neck under the mane. I can't for the life of me figure out what it is. Can anyone help?

 

[Stezza]

Carrara tips:

in Carrara use the DS version of the HW Horse not the Poser version. ( same for all HW animals )
to pose the mane you need to select the actor of the HW Horse Mane not the Actor of the HiveWire Horse.. although the morphs appear in the horse they don't work.. dunno why and they are not categorised so it takes longer to sort through them all.
also untick wrap UVs in UV editing mode for horse & main and tail.. everything

 

[Stezza]

Carrara Tail Tip:

though the mane needs you to use the mane actor the same doesn't apply for the tail.. some tail actor poses don't work but do work in the horse actor ... once again I dunno why..
also untick wrap UVs in UV editing mode

Rendered and posed in Carrara using only the dials

 

[Rae134]

Hopefully a more experienced Poser user than me will answer but I think I recall (but I don't have a very good memory) it has to do with one of the "bounce" settings I'm not sure (and definitely don't know which one lol)

 

[Dream9Studios]

Hopefully a more experienced Poser user than me will answer but I think I recall (but I don't have a very good memory) it has to do with one of the "bounce" settings I'm not sure (and definitely don't know which one lol)

Hmm... I increased the transparency bounces to a fairly high number but I'm still getting the black spot. I'm not sure which other setting could affect this. I'll do some testing, trial and error. Thanks for the idea!

 

[Rae134]

sorry I'm a Daz user that really only uses Poser for basic promos lol

 

[Dream9Studios]

sorry I'm a Daz user that really only uses Poser for basic promos lol

That's okay. No one's perfect.

 

[CWRW]

Hmm... normally I set the min trans bounces to 16 and the max to 50 in Superfly and that goes away- LOL back when SF was brand new both KenG and I came across that and it was making us nuts because we had no idea how to fix it til Chuck (Nerd3D) told us about increasing those settings. Can you try those settings and show me the results?

 

[CWRW]

And I'm glad she says her name here, I always wanted to know how to say it lol

LOL my great aunt Eluned (who was very Welsh) always told me I said it wrong I do the best I can with my american accent

 

[Dream9Studios]

I had to increase the trans bounces and, I think, transmission bounces to get the mane to render without the spots. Now if I could just figure out how I got the tail hair to look slightly boxy. Here's my final render:

 

[Flint_Hawk]

There are poses available for the unicorn's tail:
Lion Tail Poses for the HiveWire Unicorn - A CG Cubed 3D Creation