RELEASED HiveWire Shetland Pony!!!

[skylab]

Hey Lorraine...do you have the Load All feature under Figures - Hivewire 3D - and I forget, I think it's Animals - and then Hivewire Horse. I believe it's under Breeds - there's an option to just hit Load All, and everything loads up, mane, tail, everything, fitted and ready to go. If you manually load everything, you may encounter errors...see discussion on page 2 of this thread. If you still have errors after making sure that you're loading things in proper order, then you may indeed have an issue to report as a bug. It will take an experienced DS user who also has the pony to verify this.

 

[Lorraine]

Yes, Skylab, that is how I loaded him, I clicked ShetlandLonghairLoadAll. When you click it, the missing files pops up. I clicked OK, and the horse loaded as my render. Joelle is correct, there is a glitch in the dufs as it also happens with the short hair duf.

 

[skylab]

Okay...I was starting to wonder. This is what we see in Poser, following the tree along the top, it leads to the Shetland Load All feature.

 

[Lorraine]

Yes, that's what we see in DS too. I think you will only see the missing files popup if you only have the Shetland.

 

[skylab]

It must have slipped past testing when they were preparing for release. At least you know how to describe what's going on...thanks for the help

 

[skylab]

I don't have the other breeds, and no errors pop up in Poser, so it must be a DS only glitch.

 

[Lorraine]

@Joelle I have been getting the same missing files error as you and I have put in a product problem report.

 

[Miss B]

Out of curiosity, I just tried loading up the ShetlandLngHairLoadAll in Poser, and I don't have a problem either. When I played with it earlier, I was injecting it into Harry's base, which is different.

Good thing you reported it Lorraine. That'll get it fixed for you guys. Don't know why they didn't catch that when beta testing.

 

[Lorraine]

It's probably just as well I only have the Shetland too and could duplicate Joelle's problem, otherwise the poor thing would have been getting the wrong advice, torn all her hair out, and maybe given up. I was so pleased I could help her.

 

[skylab]

Well, ultimately she will be fine...the Shetland works if you click past the error box, the DS files just need an update so that the error box doesn't appear. I usually handle error boxes this way when I happen to encounter them, or I manually find the files to satisfy the search...but in this case, she can go ahead and use the pony.

 

[Lorraine]

Yes, she knows that now which is good.

 

[Sunfire]

*wanders off to alert Alisa*

 

[Lorraine]

Done it, Sunfire

 

[Sunfire]

Never hurts to give her a nudge, she's always going in so many directions I'm surprised she doesn't run into herself and knock herself out! LOL

 

[Lorraine]

Poor Alisa, she does have an awful lot on her plate.

 

[Sunfire]

That she does.

 

[Pendraia]

Hi Joelle, I've had no problems loading the shetland pony but I've been going to the breeds folder and loading from there. I just loaded Harry and dialed in the shetland pony through the parameter tab under actor full body and had no problems with that one either. But then I do have most of Laurie's breeds...

From all I can gather, Companions are as diverse as the horse. As in, there is no specific build or look for a companion. What marks a companion is silver-grey hooves that chime on hard surfaces, a spotless completely white coat (You could use the unicorn texture) and blue eyes, which seem to vary in hue. From Foundation, Herald Setham (the coach of the kirball team that Mags ends up on) is partnered by a companion that is described as small and compact, almost cobby. Weaponsmaster Albrech (Albrecht, something like that) is partnered by a companion that is very muscular like a war horse. And there's all sorts of diversity in between. The only companion that is ever uniquely identifiable, is the King's/Queen's Own companion... and even then what makes him stand out isn't so much his build but the way he seems so much... more.

I've been rereading some of her earlier books recently and there was a description in one of those that described the general body type for a companion. It was the first book in the Wind series and from memory it was Karal describing them.

I'm sure there would be diversity as well but there would be a general body type that should work for most and you could dial in parts of other morphs to get something like Albrech's horse or the cob...

 

[Joelle]

Thank you all! xx

 

[Joelle]

So far...I removed the manes and tale before rendering...They wouldn't behave the way I wanted them to Next step...the unicorn ...So I think I need to spend a view dollars here

 

[Lorraine]

Looking good, Joelle