"Renaissance" landscape

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• Pinzelmeister Posts: 114

  September 2012 edited December 1969

  Here's another example.

  

  

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• Ascania Posts: 1,838

  September 2012 edited December 1969

  They won't work because those renaissance landscapes are not perspectively correct. It is easier to see in your second image but they do not correct perspectivic depth, they compress uninteresting parts of the picture in favour of elements you are supposed to focus on, arrange elements in something like layers of flat planes to create depth and put architectural elements so they look good instead of lining up like they are supposed to.
• Szark Posts: 10,634

  September 2012 edited December 1969

  I think the only why to achieve this type of image with Daz Studio is doing it with PS/GIMP etc too. Render each element and composit them in layers. You can do false perspective in any CG software just by scaling, I have done it many times.
• Pendraia Posts: 3,591

  September 2012 edited December 1969

  How important is the perspective to you? Do you want to replicate those images exactly or create a background with similar items and images?

  Would it be possible to retexture Dimension Theories recent urban set or one of the other sets to provide the background you seek?

  Have you attempted to fit those images to one of the sets like the Millenium environment to create a more 3d type background?

  Just a few thoughts hopefully they may help...
• Pinzelmeister Posts: 114

  September 2012 edited December 1969

  Thank you, Pendraia, for your suggestion. I will check it out. My goal is not to replicate these paintings, of course, but to make something similar. I have been experimenting with something called Versatile Terrain - I would prefer a few more rolling hills etc however. I suppose I could also just start putting trees, bushes, medieval-style buildings here and there by hand. Before starting something so labour-intensive, however, I just thought I would see if anyone had ideas about a set I could start with that had rolling hills, low-poly trees and/or buildings, etc.
• Pendraia Posts: 3,591

  September 2012 edited December 1969

  Pinzelmeister said:

  Thank you, Pendraia, for your suggestion. I will check it out. My goal is not to replicate these paintings, of course, but to make something similar. I have been experimenting with something called Versatile Terrain - I would prefer a few more rolling hills etc however. I suppose I could also just start putting trees, bushes, medieval-style buildings here and there by hand. Before starting something so labour-intensive, however, I just thought I would see if anyone had ideas about a set I could start with that had rolling hills, low-poly trees and/or buildings, etc.

  Here are some other props that may be useful...
  http://www.daz3d.com/shop/hilly-surround
  http://www.daz3d.com/shop/rolling-plains-morphing-terrain
  http://www.daz3d.com/shop/the-steppes-rock-outcrops

  or

  http://www.daz3d.com/shop/useful-landscape-essentials-bundle includes hilly surround.
  and The Steppe. First Bastions items are always cool.

  
  http://www.daz3d.com/shop/the-all-new-worldbase-xt-lushlands

  These may provide you with a starting point...
• Pendraia Posts: 3,591

  September 2012 edited December 1969

  Here are another couple of items that could be useful...

  
  http://www.daz3d.com/shop/versatile-terrain-2 Not sure if you have one or two?

  http://www.daz3d.com/shop/road-to-drengallen useful for close up/outside portraits

  
  http://www.daz3d.com/shop/rocky-outcrop could add to some of the other terrains to give a focal point...

  Especially look at the bundle from First Bastion...he has a texture expansion for rocky flats that may be exactly what you need.
• Pinzelmeister Posts: 114

  September 2012 edited December 1969

  Thanks - this is interesting and helpful.