Maybe try magnets?

If you're using poser 7, the morph brush tool might be helpful...

The entire horse is out of proportion. I have had the real thing all my life. The millenium cat is even worse.

Attached Link: http://www.ladyfyre-graphics.com/poser_and_daz_horses.htm

There are a lot of thibgs not right with the model but I've still managed to get some nice renders from it :)

~Angela~

I will add though that for poseability the MilHorse comes a long way behind the Heavy Horse!

I used to show and jump a Welsh pony in my much younger days. He looked more like an Arab and was not heavy at all. I've never seen a Welsh that big, but then I only knew the jumpers. I have a half-paint/half Thoroughbred now and he looks like a racehorse with spots, LOL! Very leggy and refined.

Thanks for the horse morphs! That little gray Arab looks exactly like my Egyptian mare Mihindra!

Your welcome :) I used to have a grey arab gelding many years ago, I don't know what breeding he was though, just that he was of the stockier type, 14.2hh and could clear 5 feet - had to install electric fencing just to keep the so and so from jumping out lol.

Welsh section C ponies are the smaller version of the welsh D's (Welsh Cobs), the smaller araby types are A's and B's. Although only 13.2 ours is very strong, much stronger than my thoroughbred mare and she's 16.1hh:blink: He's also got the most fab personality, we think he was a pet dog in a previous life......

C's have a lot of spirit but are strong enough to carry a small adult but very, very cheap to feed, we have one heck of a job keeping the weight off our lad!!!

Here's some photo's of welsh C's http://www.bbc.co.uk/wales/mid/sites/aberystwyth/pages/aberystwythshow06_championsectionc.shtml?15

I bet your paint x tb is lush :) Coloureds are very popular here in the UK at the moment, I often go to York sales and you can add £1000 on to the price of any animal if it is coloured!

~Angela~

PS the photo is of our ponio after a bath, a very cheesed off pone! There's loads more photo's of him and our rescued TB at my daughter's website www.ponydaze.com

just to say, it doesn't take an expert to spot how off the mil horse is.  but your work with it is great.  thanks so much for adding to its usefulness.

Thank you :)

It was a real shame that when Daz had the chance to sort the model out that they didn't take it and the cr2 is so heavy! I'm sure that is was all of those hundereds (exageration) of seperate parts for the forelock that cause it to take so long in loading. I made a custom one, removing all the morphs and the hair bones and geomerty just for posing and it loads like like lightening...

I made a morphing forelock smart prop using Poser's grouping tool on the mane and to my eye it looks much better than the one on the default horse. (see attached render)

~Angela~

overall, that image is what i was expecting when they released it.  i think the mane looks great.  though i'll also admit a bias, since i'm pretty into painting hair, so i tend towards either falls nicely or i break out a reference and a custom Photoshop brush. 

i remember how it became a debate for a while, and some people kept saying we were being purists.  i think it got lost that someone got their work turned down because they used the millenium horse and the publisher said it didn't look good enough.   to me, that should have been when DAZ realized they absolutely needed to change it.  ah well.  i keep hoping someone else with better animal skills will take on a new horse.  and they've hired etujedi, who made  the griffin, to help make better animals.  so there is some hope.

Ladyfyre, for some reason my previous post did not appear, so I'll repeat it here.

Thank you kindly for the MilHorse "eye -youngexfix".  It's exactly what I needed. 

You may or may not have seen my previous recent threads regarding an animiation that I have been asked to do for a nonprofit charity group.  The central character, based on a publised author's children's storybook character (who is the person who asked me to do the animation) is a cute unicorn, and all I have to work with is the clumsy DAZ MilHorse!  You eye fix helps tremendously.  (Now all I have to do is figure out if the mane and tail can be modified to look more regal like the storybook's unicorn character.)

Again, thank you very much.

Wow! Your palomino render is gorgeous! The Welsh I rode was a little dapple-gray gelding about 14.1 and he could jump the moon. He belonged to my trainer and was a real sweetheart. So is Mindy, but she can't jump. She trys but she is not built for it. My Buddy is gorgeous but he is quite large for me at 16 hands. I'm short, LOL! He is a good jumper, though, because of the T-bred in him.

I just looked at your ponydaze. I had a Thoroughbred mare I rescued from the race track and she had been abused. I taught her to jump and she was wonderful, but she always had mental problems because of the abuse. She hated men. She would bare her teeth and lunge at them in the beginning but eventually got over it. She was unpredictable, though, and loved to buck. I have some old videos of us bucking around the arena at the staid hunter/dressage barn I was boarding her at. The dressage ladies were aghast and would not ride with us as if it was catching, LOL!