There have been many different 3d horse models over the years (since 1999) that I have been using Poser. In terms of realism and posability they have come a long way yet some of the older models still have a place in your runtime. This is a series of articles discussing all of the ones that I have owned and their pros and cons from the old P4 horse to the Hivewire 3d Horse.
New Texture for Hivewire 3d Horse Harry I love working with this horse model, it poses amazingly and the way the mane and tail work with the model is sheer genius. On all of these renders I am only using the mane and tail that comes with the model, no post work painting hair in …
[fluid][html tag_image_style=”imagestyles-38″] I’ve just been going through some of my back up dvds and found a carrara scene that I’d forgotten about, the AdHorse with some Carrara dynamic hair. It was made with Carrara 7 Pro so I wasn’t sure if it would work with Carrara 8 that I currently am using but it opened …
Playing with Carrara Dynamic Hair | AdHorse This Time Read More »
I’ve been updating my digital clone of our thoroughbred ex racehorse mare, Karina for the Daz Horse 2 (DH2) model for Daz Studio and Poser. This is a custom morph built in Hexagon through the Daz Studio bridge with the texture being one I made of the same horse for the DAZ3d Millennium horse model …
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My Millennium Horse Dynamic Hair Project Well today it’s been back to an old project for me as I needed to render a horse with realistic hair in Carrara. I worked on this a few years ago using the Millennium Horse <Mil Horse) model which was real a pain as all in built geometry based …
The conforming mane figure that I made in Hexagon for the Daz Horse 2 is now available as a freebie download here in my shop. I have also been working on DSON companion files for it so that it can be used in Poser and will be uploading them as soon as I have the time 🙂 It …
I’ve hit a problem with my mane figure for the Daz Horse 2 model in that when loaded in a scene you can only select it from the scene panel in Daz Studio, I had thought that I had hit a bug in Daz Studio but it doesn’t look as though anything else is effected 🙁
Well I figured out how to fix my previous mistake with my custom mane model for the Daz Horse 2 3d figure and then I decided to make a morph to temporarily fix the bending problem until I work out how to use Daz Studio’s rigging.
Fixing the broken geometry
At first I thought I’d lost around 8 hours worth of work with the mesh breaking on my object but luckily I had saved the base figure under a different name a couple of days previously so opened up the broken figure in NotePad++ (please note I always save my work uncompressed so that I can edit it if needed in a text editor) and searched for the .dsf file in it so that I could find it’s location. I then opened the dsf file folder up in windows explorer and changed the file extension to .dsfbak.
Sometimes I wonder why I just can’t accept things as they are and move on to the next project. Instead I’m a tinkerer who is never happy if there is the possibility of improving one of my creations…
Over the years I’ve created quite a few personal figures with Poser’s built in tools and am quite happy with editing the figure rigging and adding things like ghost bones although I’m no way near being a guru i manage to muddle along.
Well since last night I’ve been working on my mane for the Daz Horse 2 model, making some more morphs and editing the groups to help it to conform better when the horses neck bends, learning as I go. This morning I had the idea of making ghost bones for movement and so opened up the property editor and found out how to create a bone quite easily but could not figure out how to make it effect the forelock area that I was trying to make it bend.
Just a very quick post to report that after exporting the Daz Horse 2 model from Studio to obj format with the texture maps that it imported smoothly into Vue and rendered beautifuly 🙂 As you can see from the gaps in the texture I haven’t yet finished off the remap but am very pleased with the …
Free downloads for the various Poser 3d horse figures here. Includes stuff for the Daz 3d Millennium Horse (MilHorse), the Poser 4 horse and textures to transform the Daz Zebra to a cute little donkey!
Well I’ve shelved my Daz Horse 2 MilHorse uv project as CauriB over on the Daz3d forum has released her project for free download including the remap to the MilHorse. She has done a superb job of it and even kindly included a fitting shape so that you can use all your old Mlhorse tack …
