I have googled to find pictures from side, standing, etc. But wasn't very successful first try. Would like to have pictures of him wet so one could see the body structure better. Now they are all hair! ;o)

Is his nose too long?

I've gotten my part-coon cat wet - it's not a pretty sight. And there's little chance of getting a picture when I'm trying to keep her from clawing me.

This is what I have so far of tweaking the MilCat.

Do you know the difference between "fox faces" and "bear faces"... Forest Cats tend to be a little foxier in the noses and Maine Coons tend to be a bit more bearlike in the cheekbones (a modified wedge according to the cat book) and a bit broad-faced. That nose is too long. I have to get a packet to the PO this afternoon, but will come back and make some scans of both breeds. IM me your email addy and I'll get them off to you. Carolly

I should add that I am going to be following this...Maine Coons are my favorite breed, followed by Traditional Siamese

Nice project! Looks like it would be just for P5 though. No problem there. And obviously... bookmark.

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Very interesting! :) bookmark! :)

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hmm, it may need to come out just a tad. Could we see a frontal render? From the side it is looking a bit like a Persian. the fur does look much better. generally their faces are free of the very long fur, but it begins to fluff, like a halo, around the edges of their features

Fantastic use of the Hair Room! Best looking cat I have seen in Poser. Jay

Just looking wonderful!!! Ill mail you later tonight! :-) HUGS Mette

Wow looking good..I'm assuming this is for mil Cat :)

After receiving several good pictures with "instructions" I have made some new changes.

You all have to be prepared that I may reach an end of what I am able to do. This is new to me. But I like it a lot! And I don't give up easy. ;o)

Below follows some images. Again, tell me what you think. P.S. When/if the shape of him is 'acceptable' I'll start working on the hair. It is not difficult to put hair on him. The hard part is to put 'just enough' so it'll look thick and the computer still will accept it.

Message edited on: 02/01/2005 20:45

Ran in to limits with the ears. Have used a couple of magnets on them.

There are limits on how much I can get the jaw (lower "lip"-part) to come forward.

Ohhh.. just wonderful! :-) Ears could get a little bit closer and the the chin a little bit more to the front... Then he is just perfect!!!! You've done such a good job! :-) Hugs Mette

keweljewels: I'm assuming this is for mil Cat<< Yes, it is the milCat. I will try to do some textures that I've seen on Maine Coons when I 'googled'. There are some very pretty cats out there. :o)

Now that looks more like my Stormie! You've done a wonderful job moving things around as you can. I think we can all appreciate the limits that you have.

faeriesprite, Happy to hear it looks like a real one. :o)

Well, I will have to "put this on ice" for a while.
I have sent questions to DAZ (2 times) about if I can sell the Cr2 straight off or if I must change it somehow. Quite hard to understand the FAQs when it is not my native language. So far no answers.
Have also posted on their forum and was told to contact DAZ. =o/

.... to be continued....hopefully :o)

Wonderful cat you have there Caly! Beautiful texture! ;o) Do you have any other pictures so I can "steal" the design of the texture? Just look at the dot under his nose. I just love it.

Ok everybody, the project is rolling again. :o)

But the more I learn on using the hair room and working with the cat, the more picky I get. Sigh..... Lots of ideas and plans.
Will also (hopefully) have a few "home made" textures for those that do not have the MilCat textures from DAZ.
I am also testing a "light version" with little less hair so it can be rendered on slower machines. I tested the 'Garfield Jr. cat on my old machine (1.3 Ghz, 1.3 Gb Ram). Had to lower the Bucket size to half before it would render. But then it took only 7 minutes. 3 minutes on my work machine. :o) So there is hope.

I'll be back as soon as I have something new to show and when I've crawled out of this influenza which still keeps me in bed.

cheers and get well soon

Thank you faeriesprite. :o)

What I have tried now is creating MATs for the textures trying both Math Pose Edit and the Python Mat creator script.
Can't figure out how to save hair texture and character texture at the same time. I figured I manually go through the Cr2 file to fix it. Opened it in Word which started "counting pages". I went and made tea. When I came back it had stopped at 20772 pages! No way I will go through that manually. :oP

This is quite a dilemma.
I guess one could have each cat/texture as a separate character but the file size, for example Garfield Jr. is 37Mb! So I don't think that is a good solution.

Anyone of you 'gurus' know of a magic tool that will fix this? :o)

Besides this little ditch the cats are developing very nice. Yes, there will be more pictures, just want to solve this irritating texture thingy first.

Good news, MAT file problem is solved! I ended up having to do it manually anyhow.
Since I don't know hardly anything about how to set up a pz2 file I had to take apart existing files and with trial and error find my way through that jungle. I am sure they are not very pretty but they work.

In my previous post I was messing around with the cr2 file instead of the pz2, hence the vast amount of pages. I blame it on the flu.

Next there will be some images for you! :o)

I ran in to some other interesting 'happenings'.
When putting on any of the pre made cat race morphs the hair would not follow the morphs. It was hanging in midair an inch outside of the cat. Figured no one wanted that! Finally I understood what the problem was. So now one can use any of the MilCats pre made morphs and animate the cat as one please. :o)

This is the "light" version with less hair. There is a short hair, medium hair and long hair version. As shown in the images. I was thinking that the package should include those and a version with more hair plus the Maine Coon (coming next). What do you think?

The images below are with DAZ MilCat textures, morphs and poses.
Maine coon is on the work table right now. :o)

Message edited on: 02/13/2005 22:54

how cool! I love them.

WOW!

Think you have to write a tutorial hint,hint :-) Exellent work!

To heck with HINTING. A tutorial would be great! This is nice work.

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