Bone Minion, horses & Centaurs?

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• Mouser Posts: 775

  May 14

  Hmm kinda sorta works in a way but unfortunatly the horse half is a puppet of the human half resulting in the horse galloping ahead and the human top half staying put

   
• memcneil70 Posts: 5,818

  May 14

  It might be best to put this directly on the Commercial page, https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/695821/released-bone-minion-for-daz-horse-2-poses-commercial/p2 and then RiverSoftArt might be able to consider your challenge. Off hand, I think it sounds like merging two products (horse and human) with one Centaur.
• Matt_Castle Posts: 3,146

  May 14

  Mouser said:

  I am working on a Centaur (G8) walk cycle but I have heard that some Daz horse poses etc can be used with the G8 Centuar.

  Kind of. It applies correctly to the legs, but the bones are named/ordered differently in the horse and centaur spines (one starts from the back hindquarters, the other starts from the front) so those can get pretty mixed up. And as you've also found, there are some complications from being a geograft.

  And if yes which horse generation matches which Genesis figures.

  Centaur 7 and 8 are based on Horse 2. Centaur 9 is based on Horse 3.

  memcneil70 said:

  It might be best to put this directly on the Commercial page, https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/695821/released-bone-minion-for-daz-horse-2-poses-commercial/p2 and then RiverSoftArt might be able to consider your challenge. Off hand, I think it sounds like merging two products (horse and human) with one Centaur.

  I did make this as a suggestion at the time: https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/comment/8820276/#Comment_8820276 ;

  However, possibly other people adding their voice will make it seem more worthwhile.
• Mouser Posts: 775

  May 15

  Thanks I'll start scratching at Riversot's door in regards to the centaur points you raised on the same forum thread.

   
• Mouser Posts: 775

  May 16

  I tried a Dr Who reversing the nuetron flow by making the human half a child of the horse half.

  Sadly still no luck.
• Matt_Castle Posts: 3,146

  May 16

  Try applying the animation to the human's hip, and removing anything from the graft's hip.
• Mouser Posts: 775

  May 17

  Matt_Castle said:

  Try applying the animation to the human's hip, and removing anything from the graft's hip.

  Remove what from the grafts? hip?

  By graft I take it you mean the centaur?
• Mouser Posts: 775

  May 17

  Okay tried another approach I locked the Z translate and intend to move the terrain instead.

  No such luck as the Centuar hip has no translate options they are on the body.

  Locked the body but no affect at all, I am finding this centuar is unusable in regards to animation.
• Mouser Posts: 775

  May 18

  Here we go again, trying to create some keyframes but IK is not working.

  Tried pinning some of the centaur feet (Activepose) to pose the character vie IK but pinning not working at all.

  I am running out of ideas.
• Mouser Posts: 775

  May 18

  I feared its come to this, manualy rotating & dialing a halfman half horse without any pose dials except for a tail while towing a carriage.

  Sadly beyond my meager keyframing skills, I ran into this issue years ago.

  https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/697871/q-centaur-pose-controls#latest
• Mouser Posts: 775

  May 19

  Oooooookay I think I have a very ugly and messy workaround for this mess of a product.

  Unparented G8M from the Centaur.

  Create a null and parent both to it

  Unhide all of the centaurs parameters so I can actualy keyframe the centaur half.

  Iater I'll see if I can get IK to actualy work.