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Looking for Fluffy Dogs

gloam3dgloam3d Posts: 190
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Hello! I'm sorry if this is the wrong place to post. I'm on the hunt for a huge, fluffy dog - think Tibetan mastiff. Just a huge ball of fur with a face, really! I'm quite new to Daz and not sure of other places to look, I have Dog and husky for Daz dog but neither of them seem to have the options to up the fluff level. 
 

is LAMH what I should be buying? There doesn't seem to be a preset for it and none of the dogs are quite bulky enough - any suggestions or recommendations? Thank you all!

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  • JOdelJOdel Posts: 6,322

    Dog fur is the missing elelment for a lot of breeds. People have been clamoring for a collie for years. Or a poodle. That's a whole lot of nope. You're not going to get a convincing collie or a poodle without a fur system, and knowing how to use it.

    Modled fur just doesn't make it, unless you are trying to do statues.

    That said, the strand-based hair which comes with current versions of Studio might be a posibility for rolling your own. Expect to be frustrated. And you won't be able to dForce it. That's a bit of functionality reserved for PAs. I suspect you'll need to groom it into shape and hope it follows poses.

    The full version of LAMH also enables rolling one's own. Expect to be frustrated there, too. It should also be noted that LAMH was developed for 3DL. Moving it to Iray is doable, but heavy on the system.

    The free LAMH player can use existing presets, but can't build new ones. There are LAMH presets for the old MilDog on AM's Furry Things site. There may be presets for the DAZ Dog 8 by now as well. I wouldn't count on any of them being for particularly long hair.

    Over on Hivewire 3D there are a couple of presets for the Hivewire dog. Over on Sparky's site, Philosopher's Egg, there is an English mastiff morph for the Hivewire dog (which by default is a Labrador).

    I very much doubt that you will find a dog model with transmapped fur anywhere. 

  • kenshaw011267kenshaw011267 Posts: 3,805

    I was really hoping for some dForce breeds for dog 8 but instead we got gorillas and orangutans, which are nice just not as directly useful to me. 

  • Phoenix1966Phoenix1966 Posts: 1,877
    edited September 2020

    The English Mastiff morph is a nice one. You could try some of @JOdel 's suggestions for hair with it, but I shudder how that would tax a system if you went the Tibetan Mastiff route.

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  • WendyLuvsCatzWendyLuvsCatz Posts: 40,366
    edited September 2020

    you can always use another software that can handle much more hair

    like Carrara enlightened

    ... or for those who prefer something more difficult... Blender 

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  • JOdelJOdel Posts: 6,322

    Small dogs also really demand the hair. All kinds of very popular hairy little yappers out there that people would like to put in their renders.

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