ISO high school and related stuff
Sfariah D
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I am fascinated by public high schools of late. (probably because I was homeschooled for high school). I know I asked last year but I would like to know if there any new stuff for high schools, high schoolers and stuff they need for high school. What are some stuff I can use to make this high school?
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I haven't seen much new lately, but there are already a ton of good items in the store:
http://www.daz3d.com/gymnasium
http://www.daz3d.com/interiors-corridors
http://www.daz3d.com/class-room
http://www.daz3d.com/science-classroom
http://www.daz3d.com/classroom
http://www.daz3d.com/school-hallway
http://www.daz3d.com/high-school-prom-props
http://www.daz3d.com/cafeteria-eating-area
For a start. :) My high school also had a couple of lecture halls and three theaters (One large Auditorium, one smaller Theater, one workshop-classroom).
Also although it's for Poser, Greenpots School line over at Renderosity is pretty decent as well, and like the Dream House makes a complete school. Although it would be a relatively small school, and there are still a couple of rooms missing.
External school: http://www.daz3d.com/school-s-out-19787
There's also a tonne of uniforms and school-type outfits for pretty much every character you care to mention. Searching the DAZ store for keywords 'uniform' or 'school' should be sufficient to see them.
A few freebie ones:
http://www.sharecg.com/v/80802/browse/5/3D-Model/School-building
http://www.sharecg.com/v/40352/browse/11/Poser/School-building
https://www.renderosity.com/mod/freestuff/?item_id=72781
Paid but low price and includes both exterior and some rooms: http://www.vanishingpoint.biz/productdetail.asp?productID=2229#AddlImages
I love the look of Schools Out... it really hits that baby-boom construction era look spot on. Unfortunately, as with so many of the DAZ High School products, it seems to be an awfully tiny school... maybe 8 classrooms, so if you packed it with 30 kids per class, that just 240 students. My graduating class alone was a good bit larger than that and the average enrollment was always over a thousand students (we only had the sophomore-senior years while the middle school next door had the 7-9 graders). I dug up this chart http://nces.ed.gov/pubs2001/overview/table05.asp on average U.S. school sizes and while there ARE a few states where the average school is that small, they're few and far between. Greenpot's school is a little better when you get it all assembled, but it still feels rather small, so to get something closer to what I'm used to for exteriors, I'm currently using a product that's sold as a college at Rendo, 2nd World's College Campus scene, which has a "built in the 80s" glass and concrete vibe.
My high school was huge. Two blocks just for the accademic building, plus another two for athletic fields. :) We averaged over 3000 students each year, which is larger than some small towns. :)
So far, I think the VP school comes closest to what I think of as a "real" high school in terms of size, and even that looks a little small to me. :)
Yeah, the Vanishing Point school isn't bad for long shots... and it looks a lot like my Junior High, actually... but it really doesn't hold up well once you get up close. There's also a surprisingly nice interior school corrider at Rendo that I like a lot by Puzz WIzz and yully. It says Poser only and the sample renders are rather mediocre, but it works just fine in 3DL and Iray and all the lockers work. There's at least one DS render in the gallery which looks so much better than the promo art. If you're interested in it, though, you'd better buy quick as it's on clearance at just $6.49. I'm hoping First Bastion will stick a school into the line of buildings that he's doing now, as he's nailed the look of the Police Station, Hospital and Shopping Mall, and has already done one school interior.
If you render in Iray, you may want to avoid the Bluebird3D stuff, 3Delight hides its flaws, Iray not so much.
@ Kuly: When you are back in the PC+ you might want to look at the various Parkside High items with East Park Textures such as, but not limited to, this one: http://www.daz3d.com/east-park-high-hallways They are onl $2 for PC members.
I went to one of those small schools which was kind of interesting after having come from a rather large city school. I think there was barely 130 in my graduating class. The big thing that happened my senior year was that the school was finally building a new gymnasium and cafeteria. When I went there it was such a thrill and unique experience to be able to go off campus for lunch because it was either that or take a bag lunch. I always felt sorry for future students that they weren't going to get to go off campus to eat lunch! Although, if my sister was any indication, some students never came back to campus after lunch which might be why they finally decided to build a cafeteria.
In case anybody hasn't noticed the VP one also has the bonus of looking somewhat like the DAZ Headquarters 'billboards' that were offered one year as an April 1 joke but have stayed in the store: http://www.daz3d.com/dazneyland-1
Jack Tomalin's West Park stuff, together with their relevant clean texture sets, would make a reasonable school (or many other types of public buildings) for interior shots. They are all PC+ items, so pretty cheap.
Aaaah, so that's what that is... I always wondered why 2 photos cost that much... :)
Mine was a little bigger and fairly modern, we had a main cafeteria with a seperate snack bar one, each with 2 lines. We could also go off campus and with 4 fast food places nearby, 1 7 eleven and 3 small food joints, there were lots of options. High school was a great time for me, can't imagine not being able to go off campus or even having to wear a uniform like many schools do these days.
Yep. It was actually free (at least with purchase) when it was first released on 1 April 2015
Our town wasn't that big. The best option for food was the diner in the Woolworths as they still had that! There was also a bakery that had the most amazing sandwiches and pastries. And, we had a deli not too far from campus. All of the pizza places were too far to walk, but if you had a car you go. Unfortunately, our school was on top of a hill and NO parking for any students. Teachers were lucky to find a parking spot. Most days, I took a bag lunch, but I did go off campus to eat at least once a week.
The cafeteria is definitely a place where the options in DS/Poser have been limited. In my school we had two cafeterias, each with a main and "snack" line that ran three shifts each. The older, larger one was also the school's multi-purpose room and had the stage at the opposite end from the lunch lines, and all the tables were of the giant folding picnic table-type variety that all six of the public schools I attended used (four in Maryland, two in New Mexico, so at least a moderately universal design.) These things folded up like giant accordians on wheels and got pushed to the side of the cafeteria for cleaning and when we had assemblies, school plays, dances, etc., so it was a really practical design that, oddly, I have yet to see replicated in a 3D model in any format, but I've faked it fairly well using a metal picnic table with formica and metal shaders while using gymnasiums to double for the cafeteria.
The school where the boys do their scout meetings has an interesting table setup. Their caffeteria is in their assembly hall. The have these half tables that can be either used as seeting for when they are using the stage and need a place for the audience or they can change how the benches go together and make tables. They are very cool.
For grades 9 - 11 I went to a high school of about 1500 where the last person and 1st person on the bus spend 3 hours per day riding the bus. Unacceptable really, but it made all those thoughful folk that thought up those schemes lots of money. As a senior the Kindergarten - 12 school I went to had about 300 students and I walked across the street to get there.