Millenium Dog

[carmen indorato]

A human has long hair on its head, which is a relatively small area and viewed from fairly few angles.
Dogs have hair well .. everywhere. I did experiment with making a long haired suit of fur for the dog, but to get it looking decent in a number of angles would have made it extremely mesh heavy plus the huge amount of transparency involved made even the test version render VERY slowly. To add to the issue, border collies tend to have medium to long ahir, which is fairly wavy and curly. Very tricky to do with trans-sheet hair.

I do intent to make a hair suit for the Hive Dog when he comes along using a few techniques. It will also be somewhat heavy, but I'm hoping a little creative coaxing with subD will help.

I still have the OBJ hanging around so if someone wants it to mess with I can send you a copy, or a lowres-half to use in a modeler to keep working on it. It is not rigged, and I'm not sure if its grouped or mapped at this point either

LM

If that were the case how did the content creator at DAZ create the War Hound for Poser? It has hair painted on body but head hair is strand?

 

[Lyrra Madril]

At a guess they used the fibremesh tool in Zbrush to make the fur, or possibly the LAMH tool in DS. Both make geometry based strand hair which can be exported as obj.

 

[scatha]

Sif's Puppy

• scatha
• Feb 21, 2017
• wolf

My character's puppy, lol

Warhound uses LAMH hair, just like Alessandro's new wolf (see image), pity it only works with 3Delight, but they're working hard to make an iray compatible version of LAMH.

 

[Rae134]

I thought you can use LAMH in Iray, you just had to save it differently?

 

[scatha]

as far as I know, only if you save out the hair as a separate mesh, re-import and recolor... yadda, yadda, yadda.... wayyy too much work.

 

[Rae134]

ah, ok, I haven't played too much. I can render it (when my computer could handle rendering without shutting down) but that was with pre-made stuff, it always crashed on me if I tried to create something from scratch.

 

[scatha]

well, I for one just cannot work in poser, for me it's just too much bloody 'rooms'.

 

[carmen indorato]

Sif's Puppy

• scatha
• Feb 21, 2017
• wolf

My character's puppy, lol

Warhound uses LAMH hair, just like Alessandro's new wolf (see image), pity it only works with 3Delight, but they're working hard to make an iray compatible version of LAMH.

I was talking about their Warhound:
Warhound | 3D Models and 3D Software by Daz 3D
The scruff onhead and shoulders.

 

[scatha]

Looks like a fur-shader to me, carmen...several vendors have done this, some in fibermesh.