Im amking a new texture map for the DAZ Triceratops, I was wondering how this rendering came out?

Here is the Daz map before I started to make changes to it.

it looks way better, much more natural

The first one looks better!

It looks great, but I can't say "natural" because we simply don't know what color a Triceratops had... The common perception is that all dinosaurs where grey, which means the look in the first picture. It's also easily recognizable as a rhino/elephant/hippo style of skin, which makes it appear genuine to us. However, there are theories now that dinosaurs might have been more colorful than we thought, which implies that the second picture might be pretty realistic as well. We just don't know...

The texture looks great. Lizards and snakes are often very colorful. So are birds, the dinos nearest living relatives. I think it would be neat to see some colorful textures for the DAZ dinos. A T-rex striped like a coral snake, say...

I am still in shock over learning (the latest theory) that Raptors were feathered. I like your grey version for the Triceratops

The grey version is indeed much better. You might try adding some color to the back for added realism. great job!

Even T-rex might have been feathered. Wouldn't it be cool if someone did a feathered texture for the T-rex?

There's a crease or skin-fold going down the left hind leg. Try to move that crease in, so it's in the fold between the leg and the body. The conventional wisdom from the 19th century was that these animals had to have skin that looked like pachyderms (grey). However, recently they have theorized that the skin had to show seasonal variations in color, as well as differing colors depending on sexual condition, health or mood. Like birds or lizards.

I read my first book around 1980 suggesting "warm blooded" theories. The title was "Archosauria". That volume went considerably further than some of the more accepted theories today. It depicted a T-rex covered not in scales, not in feathers, but fur! It also showed the skull as being filled out with more muscle and fat giving the features a somewhat more mammalian look. It suggested the bone frill of the tri-tops doubled as an anchor point for extended jaw muscles, giving the creature the ability to chew on conifers (pine trees)! I neither condone nor condemn these explanations. I merely state this book theoried the dinosaurs were even more mammal-like than even Bakker has suggested. Hmm, imagine a 'Raptor resembling some mutant, two-legged wolf! Freaky! Sincerely, Bill

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As far as t-rex's go, I am partial to the premise that it was not in fact a predator, but instead a scavenger. It large sinus caveties are paralleled in the vulture due to the need for relying on smell to track down carcases to scavenge. Also their tiny arms and large legs would not make it practical to function as something prone to running after food, because the chance for tripping and falling and breaking a linb would be too high. Though if he were covered in feathers, I think that would set up a whole new series of nightmares about 12 ft tall pidgeons...yyeeessshhh

Your nice texture looks like it is using the displacement channel of Poser 5 - if so what doue it look like in P4 or PPP that can only do ordinary bump mapping?

Becco Uk that is poser a poser 4 render.

You have done a lovely job to get the bump appearance looking so good in P4. Well done.