Is "Energy Efficient Living Room" meant to be a joke?
Cybersox
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Seriously... one room with nine light fixtures, glass doors with no weatherstripping and a vaulted ceiling with minimal insulation is energy efficient? And while the description says "living room", the exterior and cutaways show that that's the only room there is... not even a bathroom, which would conserve on water, of course, but...
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And why I passed it by. I live in an area where there are competitions for energy efficient designs in universities, and those I would buy and live in.
I guess it's what "Living Room" means... no kitchen, no bathroom, no bedroom.
Like the previous living rooms, just it's one room.
Note: There are 2 doors, you can imagine what you want behind them.
It uses Compact Fluorescent Lamps, LOL
...actually the new LED bulbs which are even more efficient and don't use toxic materials.
However must get cold in winter as well as stuffy and stifling in summer as there are no apparent means of providing climate control (no ducts or vents).
Nothing to do with energy efficiency, but who hangs a picture where it is blocked by the TV? There is a lot of common sense missing in Daz-land.
...one of my other concerns is it has a full exterior as well, making it appear to be modular, but I fail to see how it would merge with other parts of a complete building (particularly in the one wall with both the glass and wood doors) given the angle of the roof provided.
One serious storm with winds and the roof.will make a lovely kite.
Clearly, [i]someone[/i] has isn't familiar with vaulted ceiling construction or run the International Building Code R-value calculations for cathedral vs. residential attic construction.
Cathedral ceiling: 1.5" rigid insulation (R-11) + 5.25" fiberglass wool cavity insulation (R-21) = R-32
Residential attic: 3.5" blown in insulation = R-7.5-15; 5.25" blown in = R-11.5-22.6
Winner: cathedral ceiling
.. .most of those homes with blown in insulation were built before weatherising and energy efficiency became a concern. To properly insulate them would mean gutting the interior of the outside walls and ceilings to install fibreglass wool. To retrofit with rigid insulation, would mean removing the outside walls and roof down to the basic frame and by then you'd be better off building a new structure.
Also it takes more energy to heat/cool a larger volume of open space. This is why most warehouses don't have climate control.
They are just additional entrances:
it has doors
which is more than some sets have
Well, unless you want to use the provided exterior, since since the illustrated outside and overhead views don't really show much room for adding on given the size, split and cant of the roof. Though those doors do look more like interior doors than exterior ones. It actually kind of reminds me of the Visitor Centers at a lot of National Parks...
I love his other works, have most of his stuff. In fact, he's one of my favorite PAs.
If they are separate props you can hang the pictures at any height.
Then you don't need a "Living Room" , you need a "House" which is another kind of product (all the rooms + a whole house).
For example, a "House" product: https://www.daz3d.com/pw-log-house
Yep, TS Beach House too... but where is your creativity ??? Soon the customer will want the PA does the renders...
I happily use cycloramas and sets with two walls and no ceiling
like
hello
movie and TV studios do
Not to be that guy, but this is a baby SET and so designed for single images.
Probably a bit of work for visual narritives/comic books, where you might be there often, in multiple areas and need things to work.
If this is just a space to form cool backdrops, then this set if fine, pretty much the way it is.
You can't sit here and complain about THIS set, when there are so many others - missing walls, no (working) doors and windows don't open.
And even the ones where EVERYTHING is glued together and lacking surface/material zones.
And I do have some Iray ones, where the widows are a grey brushwork texture and not a real glass shader.
I still don't know what that's about.
To be clear, my initial point was NOT that the set was badly made... for the record, of Tesla's 167 products currently in the store, I own all but 11 of them... but rather that the name seems rather misleading. If it'd been called "Funky Chalet" or "Glass Cabin" it It would probably have passed without notice. However, I've complained about this before with other products and other vendors in situations where I wonder if the PA actually gave the product that title originally, or it was someone in marketing. Missing Jet is the one that always comes to mind, where the crashed aircraft shown in the actual product turned out to be a prop plane. When you have a ton of products in your runtimes, and you're scanning through, having names that accurately reflect what's in the content itself is no small matter. Otherwise, you spend a lot of time loading things up and then going "oh that's not what I thought it was…"
The Citadel... doesn't look like a citadel. Many product names don't reflect the content.
...while not much into modernist/minimalist architecture I still have several of his sets.
As an interior setting this still would work well.
Looks like form concrete walls or maybe precast. I'm no engineer, but those might be good heat sinks.
Well, some controversy would bring attention to the item, and it really did.
@Noah LGP "The Citadel... doesn't look like a citadel"
There are a number of ways to interpret "citadel".
Yep. LED bulbs seem to use about 10% less power for the same lumens. The toxicity is true too. What I don't know is the life. The 10000 hour CF lamps certainly do not last 10000 hrs. I've had a number fail less than 10000 hours after purchase, letalone having had them on for 10000 hours. I suspect the chance of getting 50000 hrs from an LED is close to nil, despite that being the life quoted for a number I have bought. I've had one fail already, after possibly 200 hrs of use.
The LEDs themselves often have no problem lasting that long (although they will lose brightness as the phosphor degrades), it's the power supplies that blow most of the time. Or they die from poor heat management.
Speaking of housing does anyone know if the store has a mini home? You know sort of like a tricked out storage locker?
As a county plans examiner, I can say with 100% certainty that blown-in insulation is STILL the most commonly specified type of insulation for residential attics in the US, and that, even on energy efficient homes, attics are not insulated unless they will be used as bonus rooms.
the doors open?? i has to look at this set
https://www.daz3d.com/beach-cabana
https://www.daz3d.com/survival-container-stronghold
https://www.renderosity.com/mod/bcs/the-shipping-container-house-for-daz-studio/126750/