DAZ Big Cat 2 hair

edited December 1969 in Carrara Discussion

Trying the new hair with the DAZ Big Cat 2, but taking forever and a day just to load it! Anyone else been able to try it yet?
Win 7 64bit 16GB RAM Intel i7, so I don't think my system is lacking for horsepower. In the last 10 minutes the loading progress went from 10% to 15%. :-(

The Big Cat 2 itself didn't take tooo long, but it was still a few minutes to load. (Into an empty scene.)

Or are these DAZ Studio-only products?

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  • StezzaStezza Posts: 8,069
    edited December 1969

    if it's anything like the DAZ llama it will take forever and a day to load the hair..

    a real PITA.. so much so I don't use it

  • edited December 1969

    That's a pity. The Big Cat 2 gallery images look so good, except for that transmapped mane. Wanted the hair for that.

  • ringo monfortringo monfort Posts: 945
    edited December 1969

    I am working on the Big Cat Dynamic fur and the Dynamic fur won't be needing the Big fur and this will load up faster. It should coming to the DAZ 3D soon.

  • StezzaStezza Posts: 8,069
    edited December 1969

    sounds good Ringo... you should do the LLama as well so I can use it again ;-)

    In the meantime I'm more than happy with my Lion SR1, he may be old but still got some roar left in him

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  • edited December 1969

    So, it's 6 hours later and it's at 82%. I'm going back to bed.

  • VarselVarsel Posts: 574
    edited December 1969

    A little test with Carrara Hair.....

    800 000 hairs. Only one hairgroup, but using the hair-length tool to create variations in the length.

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  • edited December 2013

    I thought this would be similar to the "Real Fur" for the first Big Cat, since it shares the name, but it seems to be based on some kind of Studio plugin instead of C's dynamic hair. But I can't even confirm that until it opens. Going on 9 hours now, sitting at 97.6%. But I'll have to leave to work in a minute, so I'll have to look when I get home.

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  • WendyLuvsCatzWendyLuvsCatz Posts: 38,228
    edited December 2013

    if you meant the LAMH converting that to geometry results in some horrendous polycounts
    only way You can get it out of studio
    I have conformed some head hairs using transfer utility but a whole furred animal a big ask
    Did milcat using Lynnes ocelot for iclone, is a VERY highpoly beast indeed

    Carrara hair the best way to go
    ignore my Puma attempt!

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  • evilproducerevilproducer Posts: 9,050
    edited December 1969

    Varsel said:
    A little test with Carrara Hair.....

    800 000 hairs. Only one hairgroup, but using the hair-length tool to create variations in the length.

    Nice job Varsel! Love the color on it.

  • evilproducerevilproducer Posts: 9,050
    edited December 1969

    Stezza said:
    sounds good Ringo... you should do the LLama as well so I can use it again ;-)

    In the meantime I'm more than happy with my Lion SR1, he may be old but still got some roar left in him

    I agree!

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  • edited December 1969

    20 hours later... I get home and the progress bar says 100% but it's still sitting there, it did not actually finish. LAMH totally fails with Carrara.

  • evilproducerevilproducer Posts: 9,050
    edited December 1969

    At least DAZ has a return policy if you bought it within the last 30 days and you don't want it.

    Holly has a really nice fur tutorial you can check out. I think it may be linked to at the CarraraCafe.

  • ncampncamp Posts: 345
    edited December 1969

    At least DAZ has a return policy if you bought it within the last 30 days and you don't want it.

    Holly has a really nice fur tutorial you can check out. I think it may be linked to at the CarraraCafe.

    Except the details of the snowball sales page says:

    "DETAILS •Ineligible for return = items purchased to receive Snowballs as well as items bought with your accumulated Snowball Savings"

    I did buy the cats, but not the real fur (saw it was not Carrara fur, but the studio hair product). I did put some hair on the cheetah

    Until Ringo gets his product out, there are several materials that don't load correctly (like the inside of the mouth) so you will need to hunt these down and load them manually the first time.

    ncamp

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  • evilproducerevilproducer Posts: 9,050
    edited December 1969

    ncamp said:
    At least DAZ has a return policy if you bought it within the last 30 days and you don't want it.

    Holly has a really nice fur tutorial you can check out. I think it may be linked to at the CarraraCafe.

    Except the details of the snowball sales page says:

    "DETAILS •Ineligible for return = items purchased to receive Snowballs as well as items bought with your accumulated Snowball Savings"

    I did buy the cats, but not the real fur (saw it was not Carrara fur, but the studio hair product). I did put some hair on the cheetah

    Until Ringo gets his product out, there are several materials that don't load correctly (like the inside of the mouth) so you will need to hunt these down and load them manually the first time.

    ncamp

    Very nice render. Nice integration with the photo as well.

    Bummer about the return policy for it.

  • DartanbeckDartanbeck Posts: 21,583
    edited December 1969

    brianorca said:
    20 hours later... I get home and the progress bar says 100% but it's still sitting there, it did not actually finish. LAMH totally fails with Carrara.
    I thought that LAMH was a DS plugin. Never grab that stuff in the expectations for it to work in Carrara.
  • EddyMI3DEddyMI3D Posts: 365
    edited December 1969


    Carrara hair the best way to go
    ignore my Puma attempt!

    A fluffy-paw-puma ;-)
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