Yes if I have the direct manipulation or translate/pull tool selected whatever I select moves slightly (and I have to Cmd+Z to get it back. If I have the select tool (the first one) selected then nothing moves. Also I use the trackpad for almost everything but I still find I need a mouse for working with 3d. esp when doing fine movements. Or a wacom but I rarely get that out these days.

Someone gve me there links at daz:

Free Riding crop: http://www.sharecg.com/v/31763/browse/5/3D-Model/Poser-Ready-Morphing-Riding-Crop.zip

This free outfit is for genesis but the included helmet could probably be adated to V4: https://www.wilmapsdigitalcreations.co.uk/view_product.php?id=70

The riding crop is great and I think I could comvert the genesis helmet. I can usually open duf files with carrara but this is DSF and I also think it requires genesis to be installed. So it will be a while before I get all that reinstalled as I currently do not have daz on my system. The helmet is the only thing that is left and now I am making riding outfits for many of my characters. (H4 and H3, Star, Anime Doll, A3 and Near me.)

I did find a jockey and riding habit for genesis at another store. I think the helmet and crop should work for any character. I also sent an email to poser world I could not find it there but maybe in their older catalog it might be there.

Thanks @moriador the animation is hard but the camera work is fairly easy. after I set up the scene I just swing the dolly camera around to where I like it. I think I have always had an artistic eye. Or I could just be I spend way too much of my free time watching tv and movies haha!

@SamTherapy haha

I think it is a great tool for what I do and am not planning on leaving it.

@putrdude Thanks. Yes I believe to more I work on it the better it is getting. This is the first part of a pilot episode for an animated series. I love telling stories and found 3d to be a great medium for my Ideas. I wrote the whole pilot as a standard 22 min. episode. I also have a series bible and outlines for 7 more episodes. I also have ideas for other shows in the same world like earlier witch hunters in Victorian England. (Thanks to content Artists. I see sets and get Ideas. I have Ile Avalons victorian and Stonemasons Old London that I have done test renders with)

The one good thing about this style is it is very easy to render. (I have a macbook pro 15 with quad i7, 16gb ram, and Intel Iris Pro Graphics) Not even a dedicated GPU. The characters and foreground is all Preview render which only takes a few seconds a frame. (I love the new geometric edge tool. It has pretty much solved the outline problem).

The backgrounds are rendered in firefly usually still but sometimes moving never take more than a few minutes to render per frame. I always only use one diffuse ibl to light the scene and make it flat/ cartoon like. If there is a shadow I use one spot for that. I really studied how 2d anime and cartoons are made to get this really optimized quickly rendered workflow going.

Thanks for the Ideas for making the characters more likable I will keep that in mind as I write. I really hope to spend more time in the series exploring character development and not necessarily as much action but still keep it interesting. I and doing this myself. I have hired someone for sound and hope I can find a way to get a little financing so I can also hire another anamator to help get it done faster.

I do Plan on having the rest of the first episode parts done over the winter.

David

I am glad it worked!

I am on a mac and not a pc but there is a thread here that might help:

https://www.renderosity.com/mod/forumpro/?thread_id=2898089

specifically the last post.

Anniemation at yurdigital has one. She does good animal animation.

Try repairing permissions on your Macintosh HD with the disc utility in your utilities folder. I seem to remember I had a similar issue once.

because It still strips them in the command string so I just cannot type any code that requires a backslash oh well I was just trying to make it easier to paste into the terminal window.

Well a person would have to check the path first anyway. :-(

It must be because of the context

\

It still strips it out for me.

/Users/Shared/v4/Runtime/libraries/!DAZ/DzCreateExPFiles-V4.command ; exit;