I’m trying to learn also. I use DSPro4.5, 1 distant light (left side) and 1 spot light (top). Both with deep shadow 20% bias. Then rendered in Reality2.5. And, for me, lighting is HARD.I render a lot of pixs adjusting the lights each time, until I get something halfway decent. Good luck.LOL
Thanks Reality is the thing I am missing, it has been on my mental wishlist a long time. I’ve been trying to see where I can get DS alone and understanding lights, but I suspect I’ll sucumb to Reality soon. Now - before or after LAMH….
Just a bit of a question: They seem to load okay in DS, but I’m not seeing the Poser files going into Poser’s Runtime folder—they’re loading into DS, too. What am I supposed to do to instruct the files to go to Poser??
I’ve got Poser 7 & DS 4.5. Do I have to have Poser 9 for them to load properly?
Just a bit of a question: They seem to load okay in DS, but I’m not seeing the Poser files going into Poser’s Runtime folder—they’re loading into DS, too. What am I supposed to do to instruct the files to go to Poser??
I’ve got Poser 7 & DS 4.5. Do I have to have Poser 9 for them to load properly?
I am afraid you need Poser9
The horse2 is weightmapped and weightmapping is supported in P9 and PP2012, but not before.
Pixel Downs and the starting gate are probably a week or two away—they were both submitted to DAZ yesterday and have a few hoops to jump through (or a few furlongs to run) before you’ll see them in the store. If you’d like to see more images, I’ve posted some here.
In order to create that 14 horse field, I needed 9 more jockey silks, so I ended up creating them for my render. If you have the jockey set, I’ve provided the textures I did for the silks and posted them in my freebies. I patterned many of them after famous Kentucky Derby winners like Gallant Fox, Secretariat, Seattle Slew, Affirmed, Whirlaway, Count Fleet and War Admiral.
Why do none of the DAZ Horse 2 skins have bump/normal (or even displacement) maps? (I bought the pro bundle, so have all the skins). They all look VERY flat when rendered, especially up close. My current render, I ran the skin through ShaderMap 2 to generate normal maps for the horse, but that still doesn’t compare to properly made maps by someone that knows what they’re doing (e.g., not me—I just mess about with the sliders in ShaderMap 2 until I have something passable).
Yea, noticed that too cwichura. You might add in a noise map in the bump or displacement channel and see if that helps. I tried just about everything and was a bit disappointed in the flat appearance in the maps.
Just a bit of a question: They seem to load okay in DS, but I’m not seeing the Poser files going into Poser’s Runtime folder—they’re loading into DS, too. What am I supposed to do to instruct the files to go to Poser??
I’ve got Poser 7 & DS 4.5. Do I have to have Poser 9 for them to load properly?
I am afraid you need Poser9
The horse2 is weightmapped and weightmapping is supported in P9 and PP2012, but not before.
Oy. I was afraid of that.
I can upgrade, but it’ll take me a few months to gather the $$. I guess in the meantime, I should try to learn DS.
Has anyone tried the bend on the elbow actor? Yeek! I guess it’s there to make it more compatible with the MH1 poses but don’t use it! I like the shape of the hindquarters better, but the bends I’m not so impressed with. I like that the mane and tail are conformers rather than part of the mesh. I bought this to see if I could adapt my animations to it, and it is doable, but frankly I like the shoulder motion on the older horse better. This new version has a weird mesh bulge on shoulder bends.
I created an UV set for the new horse to take Millenium Horse textures, I also created a clone to auto fit your old items to the new horse. I also included some materials for easy application of the old textures ( LnL Ultimate Horses, Mil Unicorn, Fantasy Unicorns and the textures that are included in the Mil horse Bundle)
You can download the files at my freebie site, the link to my freebie site is in my signature.
The files are rtencoded against the blMilHorse.obj. More instructions are in the readme.
Hope you like it.
I have a question about how you made the clone shape. I decoded it and installed it, and I’m able to fit items to Horse 2 and select Millennium Horse as the original figure, and some modifications are made so that some pieces fit better… but were you trying to match the whole body shape of the original MilHorse in the clone? Because this is what I get for fits. One image is Astral Armor items loaded into scene with no fitting, one is fitted to Horse 2 using the clone, and the last is items fitted to Horse 2 with the Llama morph. Granted, that’s an extreme morph and I’m not surprised to get some distortion, but even the fit to the plain horsie is… well… you can see.
Is your version working better? Did I go wrong somewhere in the install process? Granted this is probably better than I have any reason to expect. But it would be fun to have armored Llamas charging around.
Follow-up: Astral Armor doesn’t seem to fit MilHorse SR1 very well, either… maybe it’s intended for a different horse model? It’s not available in the store anymore… ah, I just found the Readme, and Astral Armor is for the Charger. Spinebender is for the MilHorse. Back to the drawing board….
I apologize for having doubted you. Here is the Horse 2 and Llama in Spinebender Armor. (But it might be worthwhile to make a Charger clone for Horse2.)
Took a while, but I finally had time to put something together for the new horsie. Tail and Mane were an absolute pain, and I ended up using three manes before I was satisfied ...
Well ... sorta. Too bad the horse was rushed out without a decent tail and mane.
Reality is the thing I am missing, it has been on my mental wishlist a long time. I’ve been trying to see where I can get DS alone and understanding lights, but I suspect I’ll sucumb to Reality soon. Now - before or after LAMH…. 
But it would be fun to have armored Llamas charging around. 
