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This fine mammal has been built from the ground up with animation in mind. It comes complete with photorealistic textures and MAT files for an underwater look or a wet look above the water.

There are separate version for Poser 4, 5 and Pro Pack. The Poser 5 version makes extensive use of the Firefly shaders, as we did with the babies.

We have kept the price down to a respectable 14.99 Euro. Animation and poses will be sold separately.

looks great :) its on my list of things to get for sure!

$14.99! That's not bad at all!

It's not exactly 14.99 dollars, but 14.99 Euro... Nearlly the same, but it's a little more: 18.38 $ But it's still cheap ;-)

Wow!! Beautiful work on those Dolphins!!! Congrats! :)

Thanks - it was a team effort, as usual. I'm very proud of our team! :') Chris

It looks wonderful, and really great for realistic posing. If a person would like to have both the ProPack and the P5 versions, do they have to buy the geometry twice?

All you would need is the Poser 5 version. To make it work in Pro Pack, simply change the folder structure of the libraries so they aren't as deep as they are in the P5 version. The shader info in the P5 cr2 will simply be ignored by Pro Pack and it shopuld work perfectly.

Good stuff Chris! Just grabbed him :) Thanks for the P5 support! :) US cost is $18 plus tax.....a reasonable price and competitive with other vendors of this type of product.

:) Looks very nice indeed.

So ... which of the animals is next on the roster?

Got it_great modelling and texturing_ I'm gonna do it myself because I have a fetish about it(!) but easipose would make the posing and animation of this critter so much easier (sic) and fluid. This isn't a criticism mind_this is a top-notch model at a very reasonable price! Nigel

Yes, I agree, Noggin! I'd really like to see an EasiPose version - it sure would be nice for posing and animation.

I note that the .obj for this model is not called from the geometries folder, but from the character folder. I discovered this by looking at the .cr2 when the obj could not initially be found by poser. It's referenced at: Runtime:libraries:character:Cubed Dolphin:Cubed Dolphin.obj. When placed there, it works fine. Was there a rationale for this placement? I manually install everything and initially put the .obj and the folder it was unzipped to (DolphinCubed), into the Geometries folder of my main runtime.

mmm! hadn't spotted that Sandoppe_ ProPack does that automatically when you create a library figure. Most of the brokerage sites including DAZ and Rendo require brokers to 'undo' all that (which is a faff but not difficult) It might be something for 'cubed' to bear in mind. I too had to 'find' the obj when I first loaded it in to a scene.

Just out of curiousity Noggin: In subsequent loads, does P5 ask you to find it again? I would guess it does as P5 seems to read the .cr2 and will not search further for the .obj if it can't find it in the location referenced. If P5 had searched the geometries folder, it would have found the file without asking. It loads pretty quickly when placed in the character folder.

It is my understanding that external OBJ files MUST be in the geometries folder structure or there will definitely be problems somewhere along the line for some Poser installations and especially with multiple runtimes in Poser5. I think Cubed should be aware of this and make appropriate changes.

Sandoppe_ yes it does and Ron I think you are right_ ProPak is the only Poser format that does this with the obj and its a real nuisance. I'm sure that's why everyone insists on the obj being in the geometries folder.

I would guess all one would have to do is change the path information in the .cr2 file, right? I think it only appears once at the very beginning of the file?? If it does in fact create problems (has not yet), then Cubed should be aware and redo their files.

It will cause problems in P4. With cr2's there are two lines that have the geometry location which should be changed.

Yup! I found the two lines. I changed them to a new path/folder in the geometries folder in my main runtime. The only other files involved are the MAT pose files and they just reference the textures. Seems to work fine and loads a bit faster than it did in the character folder. P5 is not quite as fussy as I guess P4 is about the .obj files. It will let you search for a missing .obj and will even go "lay down by it's dish", if you can't find it!:) P5 gets a lot more goofy about textures it can't find than it does .obj files.

Cubed dolphins? They are great, but are they tuna-safe? They are now on my wish list. Fantastic work! Tim

OOPS! I missed that obj call - thanks for the heads up! I'll fix them now and re-upload them. (Still recovering from Paddy's day here in Ireland... urgh...)

Fixed - sorry for the confusion! Chris

Really nice, Chris! Now, I wonder if you'll get around to offering us a horse that has slightly better knees than a certain other new horsie... Or perhaps a wolf with a grin Or maybe even a decent snake (other than the esteemed noggin python, that is)...

'cubed dolphin' & 'steamed python' _ sounds like the sort of bush-tucker fare served up in jungle/island reality TV shows.....oops misread that ynsaen! P-)

Yesssss, more snakes please (capable of non-viper looks:) eric