{"id":504,"date":"2012-03-16T18:20:24","date_gmt":"2012-03-16T18:20:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/dazposer\/?p=504"},"modified":"2023-02-13T21:38:57","modified_gmt":"2023-02-13T21:38:57","slug":"my-survey-of-3d-house-cats-for-poser-and-daz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/2012\/03\/16\/my-survey-of-3d-house-cats-for-poser-and-daz\/","title":{"rendered":"My survey of 3D house cats for Poser and DAZ"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is my survey of the best of the 3D house cats for Poser 9, Poser Pro 2014, and DAZ Studio, available in early 2012:<\/p>\n

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Millennium Cat:<\/strong><\/p>\n

The DAZ Millennium Cat<\/a> is of course the master moggie that you must<\/em> have, and she has long since chased the earlier and lesser Poser cats out of the neighbourhood. The base cat is available on the DAZ Store…<\/p>\n

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She works fine in Poser. There is also an “LE” edition<\/a> that looks identical, but which has less morphs and thus has a less taxing effect on your PC. The LE is currently free.<\/strike> <\/p>\n

Seven beautiful extra textures for the Millenium Cat can be had for free at PlanIt<\/a>.<\/p>\n

You can also buy the “Classic Cats Combo”<\/a> textures pack on the DAZ Store. <\/p>\n

Need a wildcat or bobcat texture? Yup, there is one. Cloud and Castle has a free wildcat texture<\/a> for the Millenium Cat…<\/p>\n

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For depicting more civilized kittees, your classical Egyptian cat renders can take advantage of “Bast for Millennium Cat”<\/a> pack, available on the DAZ store…<\/p>\n

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Animations and poses for Millenium Cat:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Paid poses packs for the MilCat are available; and the “LB Millennium Cat Poses”<\/a> and the “Purrfect Poses for the Millennium Cat”<\/a> on the DAZ Store.<\/p>\n

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Kittee toys and baskets:<\/strong><\/p>\n

The DAZ Store has the “Millennium Cat Props”<\/a> containing such items as sleeping baskets, indoor cat trees, and a litter box, etc.<\/p>\n

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Fur:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Poser users can get fur as standard, without any addons. Although a careful application of parts of something like the Instant Hair Collection PSD Photoshop files, in Photoshop, might reduce render times considerably. Advanced Photoshop users should also take a look at the amazing filter plugin Alien Skin Eye Candy: Textures (Animal Fur), which can do a lot<\/em> more than the Alien Skin website’s lacklustre samples suggest.<\/p>\n

For fur DAZ users will need to upgrade to DAZ Carrara<\/a>, and then install the “Real Fur for the Millennium Cat”<\/a> addon pack from the DAZ Store. Another alternative is the “Furify: Fur Shaders” pack, which also works on Poser.<\/p>\n

There was also a “Furred Cat Short” pack, which appears to have worked, but is no longer sold. Update: It’s now called Fluffy Cat for the Millennium Cat<\/a> and is sold at Hivewire.<\/p>\n

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Toon cats:<\/strong><\/p>\n

The cutest kittee is Yanelis’s free Mesky & Blackie for Poser. Was at RuntimeDNA, now appears to be lost.<\/em> The Blackie kitten comes with Dynamic Hair for Poser…<\/p>\n

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There are some pretty ugly toon cats out there, but I think the most pleasing balance between realistic and toon is the new Noodle<\/a> from 3D Universe…<\/p>\n

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Noodle comes with good texures, and posing dials (not preset poses). Noodle once had a free Mimic file for all your talking cat needs, but sadly it vanished in the 3D Universe website makeover of Nov 2012. However, I tracked down a copy<\/a> at the South African version of 3DU.<\/p>\n

There’s also a classy toon cat in the form of Cupcake<\/a>. And Tom Pawyer<\/a> is an excellent male toon morph set for Cupcake.<\/p>\n

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Spooky cats:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Need a cat skeleton that you can make glow-in-the-dark? Try the Skele Cat for Poser<\/a>. It’s actually a lion skeleton, but if you scale it down I expect that not many viewers will actually spot the difference…<\/p>\n

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Cheshire Cat<\/a> is Alice in Wonderland<\/em> via Tim Burton…<\/p>\n

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A little too garish? There’s an eight texture pack FuzzBallz for Cheshire Cat<\/a> that gives this fearsomely pink grimalkin a much more natural look, but which can’t do much about the lamp-like eyes. The Cheshire cat accepts poses from the old Poser cat and the new Millennium cat.<\/p>\n

There was once a morph set for the Cheshire Cat that turned it into more of a thinner demon-style cat, but it appears to have vanished without trace.<\/p>\n

A leaner Halloween-style cat is Black Cat<\/a>. Although it’s old now and doesn’t stand close-ups like the Millennium Cat does, it might be especially good for silhouettes with a little rim lighting and some Poser fur…<\/p>\n

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Robot cats:<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Cat Robot<\/a> is the only one I know of…<\/p>\n

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There’s definitely a gap in the market for a steam-punk cat robot, I’d say.<\/p>\n

Update: see also the “D-Claws and D-Squeek”<\/a> cat robot on the DAZ Store.<\/p>\n

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Sci-fi:<\/strong><\/p>\n

There was once an “alien cats” pack of morphs and textures, but it appears to be no longer available…<\/p>\n

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Home environments:<\/strong> <\/p>\n

There are plenty of normal home environments for DAZ and Poser, but the Crazy Cat Lady Mobile Home<\/a> perhaps deserves a special mention.<\/p>\n

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That’s it! Enjoy your kittee renders and animations!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This is my survey of the best of the 3D house cats for Poser 9, Poser Pro 2014, and DAZ Studio, available in early 2012: Millennium Cat: The DAZ Millennium Cat is of course the master moggie that you must have, and she has long since chased the earlier and lesser Poser cats out of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,5,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-carrara","category-daz-studio","category-poser"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=504"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21062,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504\/revisions\/21062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}