Just today I decided to try the Poser puss for the first time, and it comes into the scene HUGE - as tall as Victoria. I reduced every bodypart to 50% but the cat turned into a mutant. I had to change the figure height to toddler (a toddler cat?!) and reduce the head size just to get it down to a decent size (still too big). Please, what's going on?

Hmm, try selecting the cat's body instead of individual parts and scale that down. It works well. As to why it happens, I couldn't tell you that.

The Poser cat is supposed to be huge. They said larger was easier to work with. You can scale it down easily by selecting the body and using the "scale" dial. I'm not sure why they didn't scale it to match Vicky after they'd done all the design work. Seems like it would have been easy enough. OTOH, the Poser cat is also huge. MilCat is about the same size as the Poser cat. Maybe they wanted you to be able to use props designed for Poser kitty with the MilCat.

Thanks for this - I hadn't seen that body option in the dropdown menu before - what's that for then?

Just select it and scale that down. It works well. :)

its huge because Poser models are too freaking small. Errors start to occur after you go below a certain size. the best thing to do is rescale the cat using the scaling dials...

(but it shouldnt be the size of Vickie though... can't tell you why that is, that's an error of some kind. Milkitty is approximately the same size as the P4 cat.)

I think the cat is fine in size. It fills my window set to 350x350 when I'm working with it alone. It's large enough that my weak eyes can see the thing without moving my camera around and it has a Scale dial on it's body so I can change its size if I decide to add People. Maybe it's just a rare breed, Kitikatus Gigantus... :)

I get the idea, working on my "wild cats morphs and maps" for the new mil cat that the mesh is a much higher quality (more dense) so the model will load slower and yes, it is larger.. but true.. select BODY and scale down easily! :) So far I have done a Cougar (mountian lion) and a bobcat maps and morphs (see showcase forum) - light and dark maps for each... big job.. I love wild cats! :) Lyne Lyne's Creations

I'm wondering, seeing as Daz created the original poser cat did they reuse the original mesh as a base? or was it totally from scratch?

Maybe with advent of Daz Studio, they decided to make the cat closer to real life measures.Compared to other 3d apps, Poser figures are lilliputian in size, this small scale creates a great deal of difficulty when you are modelling clothes and such, you are working in small fractions of millimeters sometimes and I think that can cause math errors in the software. I really hope that when Studio comes out future Daz figures join the mainstream as far as size goes.

The body channel in Poser models contains settings that effect the whole body, such as scaling and position. Also, it can contain FullBodyMorphs (FBMs), which enable you to activate morphs across the whole figures body by changing one dial instead of thirty. Figures such as Victoria 2 and 3 use this feature a great deal

But remember that poses (PZ2s) do not save the Body, only the body parts.

In looking at the cat mesh when doing the morphs I feel it is a brand new cat mesh... and really is a "mil" cat.. the morphs included are fantastic! Claws come out, toes spread... and many more on the body and then on body parts!!

Just to clarify - it's the Poser cat I'm talking about, not the Mil cat. I may be an animal lover but I haven't gone so far as to fork out the cash for another cat. And I exaggerated slightly saying it was the size of Vicky. Rotated 90 degrees it would be as long as Vicky, but when standing it's half her height (and much fatter). Thanks for all your replies!

its not the same mesh at all. The P4 cat is a trainwreck, and that's being nice :) I love the Milcat... it was sorely needed...

Oh, didn't you know? The MilCat is made from the same Unimesh as V3 and M3! ;o} (j/k)

Look you can't just grow a mIllenium cat on friskies you know, YOu gotta feed him lots of Sheba and 9 lives.

ps I wasn't trying to cast doubts on how good the mill puss is, I'm sure he's great & I'll get him sometime soon :) I wouldn't be surprised if they pulled out the original cat at the first development meeting & put him to sleep (kindest thing to do really)