Have figured out what was wrong. Thanks goes to: Bloodsong, JeffH, Mufasa for their helpfull suggestions. And also a big thanks to Nerd for his excellent CR2-Tutorial. To the technical things: Each bodypart has a morph to give the horse a heavier look. The hairs dont need a transmap while built as strands. The hair-file measures 4,9Megs and the CR2 0,7Megs. Everything packed as a ZIP ends whit a file-size of 1,2Megs . SHARKEY

Damn, that's killer. Excellent work.

Straight from the horse's mouth :) Great job Robert

Hurry and put it up, either free or for sale it is great! Marque

Just forget to say, it would be a freebie. And uploaded to my site on Monday evening.

looks great

Can't wait! lol Looks powerful, you have outdone yourself. Now hope Phil's armour will fit it. 8^) Marque

Sharkey: his rear ankles (joints just above the hoof) are flexed backwards...they should be flexed sort of in an "L" shape... with the hoof forward of the joint (stand on your toes...his hoof is the ball of your foot, his pastern is the arch of your foot and his ankle joint is your heel & ankle) Your calf is the back of his leg, your knee is his knee except his bends the opposite direction). I don't mean to criticize your work and am not sure if it's a limitation of the model you started with (his pasterns are extremely short, straight and thick) Having been dumped more than once by "my friend, the horse" I swear, it's true bg Jan

actually, the rear "knee" is the "hock"

Movida, It's just the basic poser-horse without any touching on scaling bodyparts in the Y-Axis. The morphs affects only the X- and Z-Axis to give it more strengthness. But well i know, haven't played much with the horse. Hope in the future the poses would come better then the actuall one. Thanks for your suggestion, it's helpfull for the future-use of the horse by myself. SHARKEY

I opened Poser and played with the horse. He's pretty limited. If this pic shows it'll give you an idea. This is a young Lipizzan Stallion, the decendants of the "real" warhorses of old *g*

The real warhorses were the clydesdales and percherons, a Lipizzan would never have been strong enough to carry a knight with full armour...though they are the ones famous for helping fight by kicking the enemy with those powerful jumps. 8^) Marque

Hi Marque: I'm starting a modeling class (ummm...as in Maya not Vogue *g*) this week. I'll work my butt off to get good enough to do one of these (pic) and put him in "Poser Free Stuff" I'll make him "Clydesdale" size and hope that Phil C's armour will fit him. Everyone doing knights and princesses should have a decent, boned horse, don't you think? Jan

That would be so cool. I used to work with the larger breeds and they move pretty quick for such a large animal...always loved them. Marque

I love them too, although the closest I ever got was petting the Budweiser Clydesdale team at horse shows. They are very impressive and I can see how they'd be a definite asset to anyone's army. I've got 4 horses here although none are THAT big! The 3D animals available for Poser could definitely use some help, hope this learning process goes quickly so I can start on him. I'm kind of partial to the Blacks....like Goliath that Rutger Hauer rode in Ladyhawke although he looked Andalusian to me s

Yes...I droole over both of them....lol Rutger and the horse, not the the woman...lol I used to love the big Morgan horses, though you don't see many of them. No horses now, but hopefully I will have them again some day, before I'm too old to enjoy them. 8^) Marque

I have 4....take your pick g - I drool over Rutger too..(I'm female). I hope it doesn't take too long to get proficient enough to start!!!!! (Too bad we can't do a RT Rutger beg)

Attached Link: http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/4075/friesian.html

Marque and Movida, maybee Daio's Site is interesting for you, because she also rides hhorses and has a great site with some history of the horse i wanted to end with. It's a friesian which where used for holding knights in medieval. Check the attached link to Daio's site. Oh and just before i forget, she has also great horse textures, morphs and poses for them. And last but not least thanks for the pictures. BTW: the horse is uploaded on my Site. SHARKEY

Thanks Sharkey and Marque: I started my classes Tuesday (drawing from the right side and intro Lightwave) YEAH!!!!! The horse is closer to reality than before! The Maya classes come next semester (I think)!! Thanks and I'll go check her site

I took a quick look at Daio's site (have to go to work) ...they're beautiful and when I start my horse I'll use a Friesian Historical accuracy s Jan

Just a point of clarification, the horse's rear "knee" joint is called the stifle joint, the hock joint would be roughly equivalent to the ankle. The stride, and animation of a horse is determined by the proportionate or relative distances between various joints.

I stand corrected g I've done that forever (confused the stifle/knee analogy with hock/knee) Jan