I've seen static models for sale, but I'd dearly love to use koi in my fountains and pools, especially now that Poser renders water so well. But since I don't want them to look like a school of multicolored heat-seeking missiles, I need a poseable koi model. :tongue2:

If you're interested, or willing here's the wikipedia article, for reference.

Of course, if you know of a poseable Koi model, please point me in the right direction.

Thanks!

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Try the Pacific rockfish collection by blondie9999
for sale over at Daz.

I think with some minor texturing it could be made to look fairly close to a koi. And there's even a red textured one in there that looks pretty darn close to the koi in that wiki article anyways.

Syphex

Thanks Syphex

kalonart.com

I know of one at turbosquid - by toucan - for $30. not actually poseable, but comes with enough data to make it so. it ain't got any koi textures, and the one-sided flat mapping sux IMVHO. I retextured their free version, but have been too lazy to poserise it. nor can I figger out how to redistribute it, due to the fact that the free version comes as a 3ds file, and it hasta be unwrapped and remapped.

Bugger.

Okay, well until the next Brokered Artist sale at DAZ, I'll go fishless or have a small squadron of multicolored missiles.

Thanks for the info :biggrin:

kalonart.com

just for the record, the free toucan koi looks like this after remapping (no hi-res scales nor fins yet).

Cool. The texture looks great. Very helpful for comparisons to the Pacific rockfish model.

kalonart.com

Sorry to revive a dead thread, but I've found that the free toucan koi is really easy to pose in Poser using just magnets. One magnet for the tail, one magnet each for the fins. It's not something that requires complicated bones, just simple magnets will work great. :) Now I just need to retexture the bugger for my project. :)

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