Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL


Subject: House Mouse?

starr_moongoddess opened this issue on Nov 26, 2006 · 22 posts


rickymaveety posted Sun, 26 November 2006 at 4:26 PM

Attached Link: http://www.renderosity.com/mod/gallery/index.php?image_id=1334200

I'm new to DAZ Studio, but I've been working in Bryce for years and years, so making and mapping textures for models is pretty old hat to me.

A "second skin" outfit is really just a painted on outfit.  It's not a posable prop, so it's not as 3D as regular modeled clothing, but then again, it goes on really easily (in Bryce anyway .... some of the second skin outfits you can get -- like Vilian's great Nighty Mice jammies don't map properly in DAZ Studio).

I plan to start making modeled clothing for the Mousie, love him soooo much, but for now, I'm just doing skins.  My most recent image, "In the Hall of the Pirate King" has two examples of HM Second Skin outfits, one for each of the pirate mice.

Essentially, all I do is either paint on a UV template, or take some of the clothing meant for the human characters, and hack them up to fit the House Mouse.  The pirate outfit on my Mousie Captain was taken from the Privateer clothing for Michael 3.  I just took it appart in PSP, and cut and pasted it where I wanted it to go using one of the HM fur skins as a template.  (I put the fur on the bottom layer and then worked with the clothing on upper layers.)

I usually switch back and forth from DAZ to PSP to Bryce so that I can see how the clothing is supposed to look on the human character, and how it will looked mapped to the Mousie.  

If Bryce is still on special for $6.00, I highly recommend you purchase it.  If you think DAZ is addictive, just wait until you get a chance to play with Bryce.

Could be worse, could be raining.