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.
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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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 …
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.
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 this is annoying! I finally found the pen for my graphics tablet (hiding between bottles of nail polish on my desk side…) and settled down with my render and Photoshop to finish up the portrait of my cheeky, chunky welsh cob, Cruz and as I often do got carried away….
Now after producing several variations of my image I just can’t decide on which one I like the best. This image is intended to hang in my hallway so I want the best one, but full of cold and feeling the tug of a hot bubble bath and my warm bed I need some help. Which one of the above images do you like the best? Also do you have any constructive suggestions to improve it?
I have been working on a new dapple grey texture for my heavy draft horse morph for the Daz Millennium Horse figure. I have modeled this morph on the heavy european type draft horse such as the Breton
My Native Pony morph and texture set for the Daz3d Millennium Horse model is now on sale, reduced by 35% to $6.50! This package is based on Ronnie, a real life Welsh Section C (Welsh Pony of Cob Type) owned by my daughter who is a British breed of native pony. This package includes two …
YouTube – Some of my work with the various 3d horse models available
Well I’ve finished up a new composite image, entitled Red Gold. It was rendered in Poser 6 with the scenery painted in Photoshop. I also painted the horses mane and tail in Photoshop and blended the horse with the background.
The following renders are samples of my texture work on the Daz 3d Millennium Horse a.k.a. the MilHorse. I’ve made all of them from scratch using high resolution photographs including some from my own horses, combined with hand painting in Photoshop.
