dynamic furs - yes they are possible. but would only be usable in poser and frankly are a pain in the butt to set up for distribution. Plus of course the load-n-render users panic and flee when you say 'dynamic'.

Making a new dog - the goal here is to take a model that is nearly unusable these days and make it look better. Certainly I could make a whole new mesh, and some day I probably will but right now I have this thing with 30 maps already so I might as well shine it up. Plus this gives me the chance to really see what is going on with the model, what works and what doesn't, which will help me later when I go to make my own.

White wolf - the TEXTURE is the white wolf texture shown on the unmorphed dog mesh. Not the wolf morph, so yes it does look like a dog. If it didn't I would be worried! The point was to look at what newer shaders would do to the existing maps. I nicked the EZskin shader base and copy pasted it over tot he mildog and slid the dog maps in. You can see the fur surface is very different, it could benefit from a proper bump map. The mouth, teeth and eyes also render very differently. I think new eye maps are needed, but the teeth look lovely

Dog 2? - I have no idea, but at this point I can presume that if they had one it would be DAZ Studio only with resource eating DSON files for poser. I think I'll pass. Possibly Hive might make one, which I would be interested in seeing, since they did such a great job with their horse. But at the moment this is the dog I've got, so I'll see what I can make of it.

LD - I said 'hyenae' meaning the whole phyla. That means making a basic hyena ratio bodyshape as well as any morphs needed for specific morphological characteristics (spinal ridge, etc). These could then be used to spin up MOR settings for specific hyenae subtypes. I'm not going to make one thing, when I could make tools to make ten things with the same amount of effort :) After that its a matter of taking a base tawny coat and adding the spots as needed for the coats. Presumably one could use these morphs for fantasy canids as well as prehistoric. (wargs? giant war dogs?) I intend to make the thylacine as well, even though its a marsupial, since it seems to have a cult following.

Am I the only person who bought the alien dog / alien cat morphs and maps from Poser Pros a zillion years ago? I found them tucked away in my animals folder. I'm going to make new mats for them as well, but probably won't make a freebie with those unless more than 3 other people have the morphs lol

LD has asked for Aardwolves and Spotted Hyena. Does anyone else want to make a request for a canine that isn't on the AKC list, or already mentioned by me?

Any python scripters watching? I'd love to talk to you about a dial-a-spot python script and a dial-a-mutt python script (texture and morphs respectively)

LM