I would also like to point out that this Big Cat figure has many head and body morphs. It would be interesting to see others who are truly talented with working with morphs try their hands to try to get what they believe are the best of the breed type (an idealized male lion, lioness, tiger, cougar,leopard, etc...). I agree that the promo pics by DAZ where absolutely ugly and aweful. Lion's head and eyes look so dumb. I would like to see what a talented effort by those of you that are so good at working with morphs can do. If the answer comes back that there truly is no way to make a reasonable type of Big Cat breed then I will definitely believe that they are beyond hope. Maybe, someone will come up with good morphs (maybe even a package), that will be a great thing for all of us.

Armorbeast, DAZ seems to always release a base figure with base textures and then releases high res texture packs either right away or sometimes later. You may not like this practice but if you check their website you will see that this is true for all their main figures. If you buy V3, it's default texture and eyes looks like total crap. You buy (or make your own) higher res texture packs and you get a more realistic figure. You are definitely correct in saying that no texture maps that you buy from a professional merchant should have any visible seams in final render, like many of the DAZ Big Cat Renders I have seen. Quality Control should have made sure that this was never released this way.

Don't totally blame the mane. I desaturated the color in the image of the lion and decreased the lion image's contrast to make the lion look like it belongs in this picture. Also added grain to the lion image to match the background picture. The mane untouched has more detail. The mane is still not perfect but it makes a good start. Hopefully, sometime in the future a high rez texture pack will be released for finer detail.

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The background in this pic is from Lin White's Primal Dreams collection.

I can't draw a mane (or hair). I made the head wider in the temple area. Also made the feet smaller.

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Poser 5, still has Poser 4's renderer. You can use that until you get familiar with firefly. I would recommend installing P5 on a newer machine. I first installed P5 on a 500MHz Athlon machine running Win98. It ran okay but was very slow. Upgraded to a 2.8gig, Win XP machine with a gig of RAM and it runs like a racehorse. With latest updates, it is very reliable for me.

Looks great. Plan to follow along with this.

Here is a great tutorial from Kirisute. I'm sure you'll find something here to help: http://arcana.daz3d.com/index.php?id=682 Also check out the tutorial section here at Renderosity.

If you use it in Poser make sure it says: "In Curious Labs We Trust" or "In (insert name of whatever Content Provider gets most of your money) We Trust"

Beavis and Butthead

Thanks. Using these kits may finally get me comfortable with magnet sets and their use.

It really came out nice. Thanks!!!!!

Thank you Bryde for posting this. It is an excellent plugin.