Antebellum Mansion / Interior+Exterior sets
joseft
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Looks like a quality set. Anyone bought it and have tried it out? i would have purchased already if my credit card did not get frozen due to someone skimming my details
i have always thought there is not enough environment/architecture sets that are both interior and exterior. There is far too much that is just interior or just exterior. Complete sets like this one are far too rare. Even though the interior is not fleshed out with furniture (i dont think, looking at promo pics), that doesnt really bother me. Can always fill it out with whatever you want
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I was also very impressed with this, and like you said it is rare for a building of this size to have both an exterior and interior. Whilst I personally can not think of a need for it right now, I was certainly blown away by the quality of the modelling and textures.
I second what Havos said. This is among the most expansive and detailed sets I've ever purchased from Daz Studio (besides Stonemason's Urban Sprawl). It is VERY reasonably priced for everything you get. My only complaint is that because of its size it kind of bogs down my system. That was expected, though.
...this is absolutely beautiful and very accurate (I used to live in the Louisiana).
The last building I bought that had good interior detail was the old Craftsman House.
Very cleverly designed. The one interchangable interior room works for pretty much everything (except maybe a kitchen and bath, and the servent quarters under the roof), since all rooms appear to open onto a veranda. And the internal staircases are perfect. I very much like that it goes up into the servant quarters on the top level as well.
I purchased it today. I'll load it up as soon as my fairy render is done cooking, then post some shots. No idea how lighting it will go. I've got Ghost Lights but haven't played with those yet. Could get interesting!
Very nice! Just installed it this afternoon, and I've been exploring around the building. Any suggestions for period furniture sets that would fit the style?
I would think Queen Anne to Victorian would work pretty well. Victorian was the style during the Antebellum Period I think. This site has a nice visual sampling of Antebellum interiors. Some have Queen Anne furnishings and others have the more recent, but more gaudy Victorian furnishings ;). All fun :)
Laurie
Pretty much any furniture from that fits the 18th to 19th century period since that covers the Antebellum era (1783 - 1861).. So a you could go for Georgian era furniture (1714 - 1830) then you have Regency era furniture (1811 - 1820) or Victorian era furniture (1837-1901) so you do have a lot of options and there are a lot of furniture products both here and elsewhere that should fit well..
Hmm, yes, I just remembered I have all those Regency furniture sets that I think were recently updated for Iray materials. Time to dust them off and have a go at them.
Ok, so I've finally got this downloaded and loaded, and this thing is HUGE. The file itself wasn't that big- 159 MG, but on the full Iray Preload the textures are 11 GB!
My little 750Ti (2 GB card) is protesting and screaming for mercy. So please excuse my grainy renders. You'll probably get better views from the actual promo pics. But the set is modular by design, so you don't have to do a full load of it. I'd love to figure out the best way to light and render it. Happy to post my findings here.
It's also a very beautiful set, and for the $20 it's on sale for now, I would run, not walk, to get that thing into your cart. In fact, it's only $18 if you buy another item from the same sale with it. That's a steal, because this is a huge and very detailed set that not only comes with Iray materials, but 3Delight as well. Where else are you going to come this close to "Tara" from Gone with the Wind for under $20? Heck, it's a bargain at full price.
It also comes with grounds, trees, and retaining walls. The windows and doors open. There are chimeys, fireplaces and even an attic.
Apologies for the awful outdoor renders as I figure out how to render this big, blindingly white mansion.
Notes:
..ouch, that is beyond my available physical memory (10.7 GB) which means rendering in swap mode.
I think by turning off items and using Esemy's Reduce Texture Script (from freebie forum), you could cut that way down. Also, if doing interiors, the exterior could be eliminated and vice versa. Maybe saving parts of the mansion as scene subsets would be helpful.
+1 (this)
For outside/distant renders, those larger maps are pretty excessive. Though Aurelio did a better job at appropriately sizing many of the maps.....Polish's Cyberpunk Subway Station lists ALL its maps at 2048x2048 or 4096x4096....193 of them. Comes in at 29GB of textures for Iray. Wouldn't fit on a P6000 Quadro (24GB of VRAM).
Again, look for where the larger maps are being used and aren't needed at that size for the render. Turn off interior sections that aren't visible or affecting the render, if rendering the outside. If rendering the interior, turn off exterior elements (or at least turn off the maps they are using.) No automated way to do that, just have to know what you have in scene, and what isn't contributing (much.)
For lighting, try deleting all the lighting and using the ghost lights!
There is a house like this up the road from me but it is in dire need of painting and a bit of maintenence. It's still in good shape though. I'm always surprised to see them this far north. The best ones in that style I was was when I lived in LaGrange as a kid we used to go driving to old small towns in the surrounds. The best one was in Milledgeville.
You could watch Gone with the Wind to see authentic furnishings although I've seen some PC+ furnishing items that would do.
Hey, have you seen all the pieces in this set: http://www.daz3d.com/peaceful-house
It's in Fast Grab right now for $8. Works in 3Delight and Iray. It's modular, looks very versatile, and can be reshaded however you like. I really love Ansiko's sets. Thinking of grabbing this one. Many of these items would work well in the Antebellum Mansion.
I really like this model but I have no use for it whatsoever. If an add on set was created that turned it into a run down version with overgrown landscaping and such, id buy it in a second.
Not beautiful, but these can be cleaned up/reshaded and this set is only $4 in Fast Grab: http://www.daz3d.com/insalubrious-sanitary
The clawfoot bathtub and shower add on is the same as the one in my 100 year old farmhouse:
I made the picture smaller because this set gives me the creeps. But really good older style fixtures here.
That's easier to do than furnishing it.
Woah, guys hold up a second. I saw a similar thread to this on polish's new subway scene, and the numbers being put out there are not quite the full story. I run Titan x's and if there was a set on the store that i couldn't render, i would be seriously miffed. I picked up the mansion to sherlock this case and yes, the uncompressed texture memory is indeed a whacky number - but the actual GPU load is not even remotely that much. I was showing 13gb in the render dialog, but my GPU monitor had an active load of around 3.5gb (i had other things running too) . I understand that this is still a bummer for some of you guys, and i totally empathize, but the numbers on your iray dialog simply don't translate to GPU load. Image attached:
Thanks, Kindred. I was going off what the verbose mode said. I'll download that program and take another look (I don't have the subway train to test that one out.) I'm upgrading my small card within the next week. Hopefully this set will perform better on that. One way or another, I'll figure out a way to render it on my little computer.
No problem, i can absolutely see the confusion. I'm not even sure what the iray dialog is trying to represent, i'm assuming its raw uncompressed textures, but even that would be a bit over the top.
Minor correction, the Regency Furniture sets were just updated for D|S materials — which means 3Delight. On the gripping hand, they do convert nicely to Iray with minimum poking and prodding at the parameters, although I haven't had time to work on the Cheltenham texture expansion set yet. And there's also the Regency Dining Bundle from Ness, which I haven't used for a while.
Thats a problem with alot of these sets isnt it? Although I cant help but think that do to the size and detail of this model, a furniture pack may be on its way. Lets hope.
IIRC, it's not enough to "turn off" items in the scene tab for Iray. You should remove anything from the scene that doesn't affect the image.
Yes, you're right. That's what I meant. My bad!
This looks beautiful! Wishlisted for another day. I certainly have the furniture to fill it lol.
Too my surprise I was able to load the Alsace set with 3 characters & render at UHD resolution on my 5 year old PC. It's nice, but off topic. I wishlisted the Antibellum Mansion too.
Is there anyone who converts it and tried this in Poser?
I know in general all this scenery buildings convert to poser file formats, but the textures are the problem, if you have to rework every texture setting, it’s too much lost time.
I feel like a real dweeb not noticing there were messages in this thread sooner...
Anyway, I wasn't trying to take you to task. You've been so helpful throughout the forums. A newbie might misunderstand, though, and think clicking the eye icon would be sufficient, or I wouldn't have said anything. These forums were essential in learing what little I have learned about the program, (little compared to what I still don't know!) It would be really nice to have a comprehensive manual, but I think things change too fast for a manual to ever be up-to-date.