Heavy horse morph for DAZ Horse 2?
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Does anyone know if there's a heavy horse /draft horse morph outthere for the DAZ Horse 2? I'didnt want to invest in another horse model, when I have a good one just right in my library...
Thanks for hints !
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The pro bundle contains a draft horse morph, but I think it's only avaliable with the pro bundle
https://www.daz3d.com/daz-horse-2-pro-bundle
if you need it now, it's probably cheaper to just get the Hivewire horse with the draft horse addon
Thanks a lot! As I own the pro bundle, I checked that and indeed there's a draft morph - but it isn't enough.
I was looking for something like this https://www.horsebreedspictures.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/Belgian-Draft-Horse-Stallion.jpg .
And so the HW horse with Draft and Beast addon is nearer to the goal... unfortunately, because it generates a lot of additional problems and investments (tack!). Hmmm... have to sleep over that.
There's this.
https://www.daz3d.com/charger-horse
Poses
https://www.daz3d.com/wild-frontier-charger-poses
Also Tack although it doesn't always work nice.
https://www.daz3d.com/charger-fantasy-tack
Charger horse is a "golden oldie" IMO. I still use it once in a while. It looks decent in Iray, with just the base Iray shader applied. The biggest downside is that it is a standalone model, as opposed to a MilHorse morph, so you are limited to the one map, unless you know how to make other colors with the texture templates.
Thanks for bringing this up. Yes, that could be useful, but only if used far away from camera, i.e. for using in background. The quality is way behind todays standard. Additionaly there's no armor for the charger available (not here at DAZ, maybe there are any somewhere else...). It's a very old model from the days of Poser 4 or 5. So it is not the solution.
I tested also the Millennium Horse (the bundle) and found that it have a lot(!) more sliders to adjust the shape than the DAZ Horse 2. In the pics you can see the difference, the grey one is DAZ Horse 2, the other Millenium horse. Quality of DAZ H2 is better, but that's the max possible shape for a heavy / draft horse you can achieve with the provided shaping sliders. Therefore the shape of the mil horse is way better (as there are way more slider settings for the model), but the overall quality is not enough for closeup shots. But without knowing which morph/shaping options (sliders) available for the HW horse the Mil horse will be the best compromise so far...
Limits on shaping dials can be changed for extended range or you can tell DS to ignore the limits.
I change the limits all the time if the morph slider doesn't have strong enough effect or I may add negative values if I wan't to reverse the effect of the slider.
or projection paint
Zbrush is something I find challenging but using Spotlight to polypaint textures onto mesh is something even I can do and there are a lot of photos of horses out there!
knowing and being certain of usage rights for images is probably the only thing stopping me from distribution a pile of projection painted skins for all sorts of animals, I did do my cat.
There's this SpineBender and Astral Armor | 3D Models and 3D Software by Daz 3D and it's texture pack SpineBender and Astral Armor Textures | 3D Models and 3D Software by Daz 3D
Ah yes, had overseen that, thanks.
Yeah... I should consult a brain doc... I forgot about that possibility. Thanks for bringing this up!
The nearby horse park has those Belgian, Frisian, and other draft horses and they are so big you could be exused for thinking they are bigger than a pickup truck.