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heyas; this is just in case you were wondering what im up to. um, actually, i took time off from what i'm *supposed* to be doing to mess with pd's centaur. if you missed it, there's a cool centaur gallop animation tutorial on my site (look under animation or goodies). this is gonna be part of a scene with two centaur warriors fighting. i always thought it would be cool to combine horses and indians into a centaur with a native american flair. this is pdblake's new male centaur. the hair is a very old posable braid i got here long ago (which seems to be extinct, now); the feathers are from the indianer character (and i forgot that guy's name, but i'm sure somebody told me once...). the spear is fast traxx's from chemical studios. and the shield is actually a round plaque prop from white crow, to which i added cylinders for the handles, and exported as an obj to texture it. (you cant see it but the front has a kinda cool stretched fur/hide thing going on.) i painted the texture maps, based on the original horse hide colour. here's a cool tip! load your p4 figures into uvmapper, select all, then assign to one group (like 'horse') and save as 'horsep3d.obj.' make sure you don't move anything (but you might want to check 'flip uv coordinates vertically'). then you can import it into painter 3d and apply ONE uvmap to the whole figure, instead of to every single little piece. paint the sucker, then apply it to the poser figure. all the uv's are the same, so it works great :)

Bloodsong, great looking figure. Is this scene going to be animated? I hope so. Thanks for the uvmapper/painter3d tip.

Hey, It's great to see someone found a use for it. Great image, love that texturing

bloodsong and pdblake, That is a great creation and a great use of a it. Ever since I first saw it, it has reminded me of the Half-Horses in The World oF Tiers series by the great Philip Jose Farmer. It that series, some enemies of the hero, Kickaha the Trickster, are centaurs (Half-Horses he calls them) who are just what you portray here, bloodsong, centaurs with an American Indian flair. As a matter of fat, the level (tier) they are on is called the Amerind level. GREAT reading with elements of Gulliver, Conan, Tarzan, John Carter, and your basic all around hero in fantastic situations. This is a a very hot work. If this kind of thing inspires you, (or maybe you have already read them), they World of Tiers series (and the equally impressive but longer Riverworld series) were originally published by ace books in paperback. Great work.

heyas; thanks! animated!?!? who said animated!? ::whops wyrwolf:: like i got time to choreograph a fight?? :) of two creatures with two figures and six limbs each!? um... yah, i'll think about it ;) larry: once, many many years ago, i tried to read a riverworld thing. i dunno what it was, but i couldnt get into it. musta come in on the middle of the series or something. never heard of the tiers, though. sounds interesting. also had some cool minotaurs with american indian design. minotaurs would also go well with samurai, i think. :)

Ok, ok, I'll be satisfied with a few renders. (which is more than I am doing)

heehee, wyrwulf! ;)

But if you post the characters, I will be even more satisfied. Which is still more than I am doing.

heyas; oops, forgot to tell yas... i want a nice tomahawk/hatchet for the other guy. who's got one? also, i wanted them to maybe wear a small saddle-blanket like thing, but haven't had much luck getting a good one that works. i tried the posable cape; that didn't work. and i tried jeff's test blanket... that didn't turn out quite right, either :/ i want to lay it across the horse's back, but have the corners sorta fly up with the action, here. and it'll probably need a girth on it to hold it on, too. ;) wyrwulf! you can get pd's centaur file and mess with it yourself. whaddya want me to do ALL the work?? ;)