Is the new DAZ CAT finally here???!!!

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  • ALLIEKATBLUEALLIEKATBLUE Posts: 2,977

    This is lovely.  The cat with the discount code and the purple banner is under $4.  I can't wait to try her out. 

  • Silver DolphinSilver Dolphin Posts: 1,621

    I have already named my daz cat garfield. hahaha Seriously, for cat lovers this is a easy buy.

  • It's a master stroke I tell you a master stroke Lol ;)

  • PetercatPetercat Posts: 2,321
    Drip said:

    Already bought the cat and some other stuff. And now, an hour and a half later, suddenly that bloody purple banner with a coupon pops up.

    Yay, thank you for that coupon DAZ. NOT.

    You can still use the coupon on a gift card.

  • PetercatPetercat Posts: 2,321
    edited July 2019

    I have already named my daz cat garfield. hahaha Seriously, for cat lovers this is a easy buy.

    Mine will keep the same name my cats always end up with: Dammitcat.

    "Dammitcat, get off the counter. Dammitcat, that's MY bacon!" etc.

    Post edited by Petercat on
  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675

    old cat wth a fur lift?

    same mesh?

    there s a carrara dynamic hair for mil cat.  sounds like it should still work

  • davesodaveso Posts: 7,183
    Cybersox said:
    Mescalino said:

    As much as i love the cat. Why didn't they make it Cat 8 ? I have no doubt pa's will create some great stuff regardless but am curious why the dog became a core figure and the cat not.

    Is this a strategic choice? or is there more involved for a character to become a core character?

    Just like cats im very curious.

    If the question is why THIS cat isn't Cat 8, I assume because it is an update of the old one. If the question is why we didn't get a brand new Cat 8 instead, that's a very good question :) .

    Probably because the Dog 8 product line didn't hit the sales numbers they wanted and the number of accessories and add-ons you can sell for a Cat is even more limited than for dogs.

    yeah .. all a cat needs is a box or a drawer.

  • RedfernRedfern Posts: 1,618
    ea said:

    I think, to be realistic, cat should be modeled from the shape of a nude catgirl...

    Fixed that for you. wink

    Sincerely,

    Bill

  • davesodaveso Posts: 7,183

    i have not upgraded to 4.11. so that means thi sproduct is useless to me and anyone that has not upgraded? 

  • LeanaLeana Posts: 11,845
    edited July 2019
    daveso said:

    i have not upgraded to 4.11. so that means thi sproduct is useless to me and anyone that has not upgraded? 

    No, it's not useless: you won't be able to use the fur, of course, but you still get a weightmapped version of the cat and iray materials for it.

    Post edited by Leana on
  • Oso3DOso3D Posts: 15,047

    I did the fur, though other artists did work on this, too.

    Why do fur and not a new figure?

    Have you ever made a completely original figure? It’s really hard. :)

    Plus making it look right is REALLY hard, particularly with discerning cat lovers.

    I’m hopeful that eventually we will see a new cat, but until then...

     

    If you want better hair, you can decrease Line width and increase Hairs per cm2. But you will increase render load... so it depends on how good your machine is. (I picked values that worked reasonably on my ok machine)

    Further, you can change line tessellation to 3 to model actual full hairs. But that triples the effective polygons. Again, if your machine is spiffy...

    Another way to make the hairs look more ... fine is to lower cutout. I’d suggest experimenting with a value around .6.

    I believe old textures should work, as well as any weird MilCat textures you may have. Just go into the fur surfaces and replace the obvious.

  • richardandtracyrichardandtracy Posts: 5,946

    The cat on the main sale page image could be a photo of my cat Squeaky during a modelling session. That is very good. However, none of the other images are remotely like the shape of my two Maine Coons. Also I would love to model a Maine Coon of ours who never reached full size, simulating one of his favourite occupations - paddling in the bath or playing in the snow. But the cat shape is so wrong for a Maine Coon. In fact, the cat only looks right in that one main sale image.

    I may get it next month when I have some more pocket money. But I am not convinced.

  • IvyIvy Posts: 7,165

    in case anyone is wondering . House cat only work indaz 4.11 & daz 4.12 beta only . & would not load in any daz less that daz 4.11 when i tried it in daz 4.10 and 4.9 All I got was a Null

     

    Impression

    Nice new shiny house cat with strand base hair on a old mill cat body. It win win for me because I can still use all my poses and animations i have created.for mill cat ..

    Thank you daz

     

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  • manekiNekomanekiNeko Posts: 1,414
    Gordig said:
    Unrelated to that, I find it hilarious that the "related products" being featured are human tongue controls.

    awwww the point is that up to now, it's always been your cat friend licking you clean. well now with the tongue controls, you can finally reciprocate, that's true friendship! laugh

  • WinterMoonWinterMoon Posts: 2,010
    Gordig said:
    Unrelated to that, I find it hilarious that the "related products" being featured are human tongue controls.

    awwww the point is that up to now, it's always been your cat friend licking you clean. well now with the tongue controls, you can finally reciprocate, that's true friendship! laugh

    Don't do that. Your cat would hate to get your sticky, stinky human drool all over its fur!

     

  • manekiNekomanekiNeko Posts: 1,414
    Leana said:
    xyer0 said:

    Bought bundle years ago, but no banner. imo, LAMH would've been preferable to what's shown.

    There are already free LAMH presets available for the Mil Cat.

    i have the free presets too, but since i only have the free lamh player, there's a limit in the fur colors i think - or i never found out how to use the texture as a base for the lamh hair (not talking about changing all hair color at once in the lamh panel, i know that one).

    i really need a dforce compatible gcard - i'm starting to be beyond frustrated without.

    as to why no cat 8, i dunno.. ofc i'd rather have had a brand new cat figure (especially since they went the extra mile for the dog! cat worshipper oblige!) - but i guess that while the mesh of the milcat could have been updated, compared to other older figures in general, the milcat was at least already quite good, not like humans... anyways, i can still pick between this and the "other" house cat now - more furs, more poses, and i'll compare as to how close shots come ^^

  • sapatsapat Posts: 1,735

    OMG OMG OMG Finally there's a cat!!!!.. Granted not Cat 8,  but he has 4 legs and fancy fur. To me, any cat here is good news since we've been begging for years. I have everything and more from the old Mil Cat, so I'm happy I qualified for the discount. Using the coupon, I paid $3.92 for the cat. I also got 3RFD Suit for $7.83, Girls for G8F for $6.39, and (pls don't dog me), The Mushroom House for $7.99.

    I don't know why it wouldn't work with DS 4.9.0.123 (which is what I have). I have several furry dforce things from the 'other store' and they work great in LAMH. And isn't what this cat is? dforce?. What does 4.11 have to do with it?

    I'm so happy I'm purring and my tail is straight up in the air! Can't wait to use it. This is one of the only times ima say it 'thank you Daz for the new-ish cat)!  Now let's get out there PA's and start making cat specific accessories and poses!

  • manekiNekomanekiNeko Posts: 1,414
    TigerAnne said:
    Gordig said:
    Unrelated to that, I find it hilarious that the "related products" being featured are human tongue controls.

    awwww the point is that up to now, it's always been your cat friend licking you clean. well now with the tongue controls, you can finally reciprocate, that's true friendship! laugh

    Don't do that. Your cat would hate to get your sticky, stinky human drool all over its fur!

     

    lol, you've got a point. one of mine even hates when i touch him, he licks himself afterwards like *eeeeew human smell!*, so i actually avoid putting my human stink over him ^^

  • WilmapWilmap Posts: 2,917

    I bought the bundle and yes I got the purple banner.

  • scorpioscorpio Posts: 8,484
    sapat said:

    OMG OMG OMG Finally there's a cat!!!!.. Granted not Cat 8,  but he has 4 legs and fancy fur. To me, any cat here is good news since we've been begging for years. I have everything and more from the old Mil Cat, so I'm happy I qualified for the discount. Using the coupon, I paid $3.92 for the cat. I also got 3RFD Suit for $7.83, Girls for G8F for $6.39, and (pls don't dog me), The Mushroom House for $7.99.

    I don't know why it wouldn't work with DS 4.9.0.123 (which is what I have). I have several furry dforce things from the 'other store' and they work great in LAMH. And isn't what this cat is? dforce?. What does 4.11 have to do with it?

    I'm so happy I'm purring and my tail is straight up in the air! Can't wait to use it. This is one of the only times ima say it 'thank you Daz for the new-ish cat)!  Now let's get out there PA's and start making cat specific accessories and poses!

    It won't work in anything before 4.11 as it uses the new strand based hair. I'm rather surprised that you don't have the latest official release.

  • LeanaLeana Posts: 11,845
    edited July 2019
    Ivy said:

    in case anyone is wondering . House cat only work indaz 4.11 & daz 4.12 beta only . & would not load in any daz less that daz 4.11 when i tried it in daz 4.10 and 4.9 All I got was a Null

    That's weird, I would have thought that there was a version without hair included that would load in 4.10 at least...

    sapat said:

     I have several furry dforce things from the 'other store' and they work great in LAMH. And isn't what this cat is? dforce?. What does 4.11 have to do with it?

    It's dForce Hair, not just dForce. That was introduced in 4.11.

    The products you have from another store are most probably regular hair with "dForce clothes" settings as only Daz PAs have the tools to create dForce Hair, which means that without dForce they're just regular meshes. This is probably not the case of dForce hair, especially if it was created from strand-based hair (introduced in 4.11 too).

    Post edited by Leana on
  • SimonJMSimonJM Posts: 5,999

    Only had a quick look, but my impressions are .. slight disappointment that it seems to be merely Mil Cat+, with added fur, which is more than offset by my reaction to the fur - as compared to the LAMH freebie so graciously offered by .. um, whoever did it!  For one, this fur is good for both 3Delight and Iray (for my own reasons I declined to go the Catalyser route) and, from the quick look, it appears to be bloody good, knoccking the LAMH freebie into a cocked hat (only room in the hat if the cat has not yet seen it and settled in it ...) I could be a little cruel and say, 'hence the low price', but far from it, I'd actually say, 'By Grabthar's hammer, what a bargain!"  All in all, a no-brainer to get, thank you all involved!

  • nicsttnicstt Posts: 11,715
    edited July 2019
    barbult said:
    Nath said:

    I own the Mill cat, but no banner (or message) so far.

    I own Millennium Cat, too, but no banner for me either. The description sounds like it is just the old cat scaled, saved as duf and given dForce fur. I see no new breeds, poses or accessories like we got with Dog 8. This is a big let down. I suppose it is better than nothing, but now that this is released, I have even less hope for a Cat 8 on par with Dog 8. crying

    Edit: I have all these as well as both Big Cats:

    • Millennium Cat LE
    • Millennium Cat
    • Classic Cats 1
    • Classic Cats 2
    • Millennium Cat Bundle

     

    Ok, it's the old car revamped, but still...

    Woohoo!

    I never bought them as they looked so far from real, rediculously so. It is at least possible to get a believeable cat now.

    I'll see how it goes to if I keep it.

    Post edited by nicstt on
  • maraichmaraich Posts: 494

    Disappointed. The fur is meh and the whiskers look icky. I really like the dog, though it needs a lot more breeds. I was hoping for a cat of the same quality.

  • nicsttnicstt Posts: 11,715

    Huh? Where's Cat 8? This is the old Mil Cat, slightly updated... There's NO Cat 8?!

    WE WANT CAT 9!

     

    +1

    Not impressed with what I've seen so far.

  • nicsttnicstt Posts: 11,715

    Huh? Where's Cat 8? This is the old Mil Cat, slightly updated... There's NO Cat 8?!

    WE WANT CAT 9!

     

    +1

     

    TigerAnne said:
    Gordig said:
    Unrelated to that, I find it hilarious that the "related products" being featured are human tongue controls.

    awwww the point is that up to now, it's always been your cat friend licking you clean. well now with the tongue controls, you can finally reciprocate, that's true friendship! laugh

    Don't do that. Your cat would hate to get your sticky, stinky human drool all over its fur!

     

    Claws in the togue would hurt!

  • OdaaOdaa Posts: 1,548

    I respect the hard work that went into this, but if I didn't have stacking discounts from the purple banner, the coupon from the purple banner, and having another item from the same sale in the cart, and a shot at additional discounts on awesome AprilSYH hairstyles, I'm not sure I'd bother. I don't do a lot of cat-related art.

  • plasma_ringplasma_ring Posts: 1,025

    I think it looks really good given the age of the base model, and the fur helps a lot. I'm probably in the extreme minority but I've never seen a huge difference between the Mil Cat and the HW Cat in terms of realism. 

  • novastridernovastrider Posts: 208

    I'm not getting enough credit for my dFurs joke. :-(

  • mwokee said:
    The purple banner discount works on gift cards, FYI.

    I hadn't tried yet, but I was hoping it would.  Might even buy the fur ball in appreciation ;)

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