Puma Animated 3D Model

Puma Animated is a high-quality 3D model to add more details and realism to your rendering projects. Fully detailed, and textured. Detailed enough for close-up renders. Final images rendered with mental ray. The 3ds Max zip file contains also mental ray and standard materials scenes. High Detailed Photo-realistic Puma (cougar, mountain lion, or catamount)- Fully rigged and animated 3d model, completely UV mapped and smoothable.

Features

• Body, teeth, eyes, and claws are modeled separately.
• High-quality polygonal model - correctly scaled accurate representation of the original objects.
• Objects are contained in a layer structure, with the layer having the same name as the product.
• Model resolutions are optimized for polygon efficiency (in 3ds Max the Mesh Smooth function can be used to increase mesh resolution if necessary).
• All colors can be easily modified.
• Model is fully textured with all materials applied.
• All textures and materials are included and mapped in every format.
• Max models grouped for easy selection & objects are logically named for ease of scene management.
• No part-name confusion when importing several models into a scene.
• No cleaning up necessary, just drop the model into your scene and start rendering.
• No special plug-in needed to open the scene.

Textures formats and resolution

The model is provided with high-resolution texture (color maps are .JPG, and PNG formats)

• Cougar_Diffuse (4096x4096)
• Cougar_Normal (2048x2048)
• Mouth-Diffuse (4096x4096)
• Mouth-Bump (4096x4096)
• Mouth-Normal-Map (1024x1024)
• Nails_UVs (4096x4096)

Hair and Fur

The Fur is made with Hair and Fur Modifier. For an even better render quality, you can increase the hair primitives count up to your machine memory limit. Hair Guides Splines are included in each 3ds max file format (max). Splines guide wer exported to FBX file and provided separately.

Rigging and Animation

To activate the animation you have to select any bone first, then to select 'Motion' - 'Layer Manager', after you can select WalkAndRun appropriate motion layer. Rigging was done via CAT object. Animation did via CAT Motion and Animation Layers. Frame Rate is NTSC (FPS30)

1. WalkAndRun (In CatMotion Editor (the paw icon) you will find the ma tow layers)
2. - Walk (01-48)
3. - Run (01-48)
4. +W Walk (Adjustment World - Adjustment for walk cycle)
5. +L Walk (Local Adjustment Layer - Adjustment for walk cycle)
6. +W Run (Adjustment World - Adjustment for turn cycle, that should be enabled only if you are using Run cycle.)
7. +W Ear Motion (Adjustment World - Ear motion)
8. +W Mouth Closed (Adjustment World - Mouth Closed)
9. +W Eyes Closed (Adjustment World - Eyes Closed)
10. Abs Standard Pose (Absolute layer - Standard Pose if needed)
11. Abs Attack Pose (Absolute layer - Attack Pose if needed)

Note Walk and run have their own separate adjustment layers that should be activated depending animals running or walking. Simply turn on or off them.

File formats

• 3ds Max 2022: Arnold 
• 3ds Max 2014: Mental Ray
• OBJ (Multi Format)
• FBX (Multi Format)

OBJ, 3DS, and FBX formats are exported directly from 3ds Max. Every model has been checked with the appropriate software.