Dear Stonemason,
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Chinatown....WOW! And iRay + 3Delight support to boot! Your work never fails to leave me in awe and I take my hat off to you. Incredible work. Thank you.
P.S. Any chance of a Blade Runner inspired cityscape along the lines of Chinatown??
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I really like the work of Stonemason and I would like to see new sets also with 3Delight support because I I don`t use iRay and can`t use it with my machine and will not buy a new one just because to do some renders.
Thanks :)
I do plan on more urban future style/futuristic street scenes, and will continue supporting both Iray and 3Delight.I'm looking forward to seeing Blade Runner on the big screen when it get's re-released at the cinema later this year
Oooooh (Bob sucks his breath in through clenched teeth)....dare I suggest the Bradbury Building? Just the interior (with both new and delapidated textures) and J.F. Sebastion's apartment. Imagine the possibilities...imagine the add-ons and figures that folks could make to compliment the set. What a win-win for everybody! Daz and the content creators go "Ka-Ching!" as their stuff flys off the shelves (so to speak) and aging boomers (like me) get to replay one of the greatest...no...the greatest movie ever made on our desktops. I'm salivating at the thought.
Yeah, I've contemplated maybe selling stuff at some point, but a lot of packaging of products, morphs, and the rest are a mystery to me, so far.
Here's a link to an older thread that delved into content creation for clothes and is pretty much complete. There are lots of links to videos, other threads, and with considerable input from SickleYield. I suggest you download the pages, videos and tutorials then organize them for your own use. Stuff does disappear and get lost from time to time so you're best to archive it on your own computer. After following the thread I abandoned my goal of making clothing for Poser and Vicky Fourpointtwo since making stuff for the Genesis line is worlds easier due to the rigging and morph transfer tools in Daz. I'm now working on stuff for the Genesis ladies.
http://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/2174/let-s-make-clothing-tutorial-thread-shoes-too/p1
The Bradbury is actually pretty well documented -- that atrium design was rather cutting-edge, hot stuff back in... oh, about 1893, and I'm fairly sure that there are images on the internet. It's probably doable, although might be better as an "inspirational source". The ground floor is pretty disappointing since most of the actual space is walled off and inaccessible, due to being used for street-level retail opening onto the sidewalk.
I do not know if you have read my ideas for new "the streets of old london" sets :) so I take the chance and would like to let you know, that I wish you would do some more sets that style, mybe from other parts of "old london" :) thanks for that great set. have just done 5 Renders that I have uploaded to my gallery under "new releases"
Well, all my renders at my galleries are made in 3Delight. Want to test Iray but I think my machine is to old for that.
No, I ray is not an option for me and my machine, lasts to long
all the latest images in my gallery, the "DX - Dixie in the streets of London" renders for example took less than 30minutes to render so, this is a good rendertime for me, everything that lasts longer is a bad thing.
...Stefan, you outdid yourself with this one.
Is this all one prop or are they broken up into individual buildings? I saw something on the product page about the buildings being stackable, but didn't know if that meant they were separate.
Unfortunately I had to pass this one up because I spent too much the last few days. I'll have to get it next time.
I do plan on more urban future style/futuristic street scenes, and will continue supporting both Iray and 3Delight.
And that is yet another reason why you're so awesome.
Dear Stonemason: You're awesome.
I notice a lot of Korean mixed in with the Chinese characters. The sign on the walkway seem to be for an electrical control panel and a parking garage.
In other words...just like the instruction manuals in so many of today's products...
Stomemason makes very nice models but the making is the easy part. Making something that is ready for use in Daz Studio is the hard part. For example I can make a sphere (not that I would actually have to do anything to make it) with UV mapping and export it as any one of several formats. But if I load it into Daz and apply a texture Daz remembers where I store the texture on my machine so even if I save it as an asset it cant be opened by anyone else. I think the real skill of those who model for Daz is that of being able to package the model in such a way that someone else can use it. I tried making something but in the end couldn't even work out how to give it away. How do they do it? Respect to Stonemason:)
Keith
If the texture is inside a content directory, usually in the |Runtime\Textures folder, when you apply it any preset or sceen file will use a relative path and will work on other systems with the texture file in the same <content directory>\Runtime\Textures location.
There are a couple of signs in Japanese, too.
well, I don`t need to render HD renders, the quality of 3Delight is enough, and my skill aren`t that good also not realiting to 3Delight, I just do simple lighting so, nothing special. I think I could do much better renders also with 3Delight, so why should I render in Iray? Have tried it yesterday but it took time even with just a simple light and raytraced shadow on (okay shadow bias was at 0.01) :)
okay, I could be a new machine, but not now...have to wait for that.
Think of it as a westernized Chinatown, where all the Asian cultures get mashed into one, this set is inspired by the Tekkon kinkreet series which is actualy Japanese
and what about new London sets???
one day, maybe.,they were all good ideas.I have a wip winter version of the streets of london set too, not sure if or when that'll get released though
An outback Australian town would be cool or maybe a New Zealand hybrid one can use for both
more than just rumour has it AM is already doing the vegetation.
I have to buy two computers: one a mac tower, and the other a Windows tower (with 2 NVIDA Titans), so I can have the speed needed to render to satisfy my client base. My little macbook can't do IRay at the speed I need it to render, so I'm stuck using 3Delight.
Stonemason,
I really like your stuff. I still love your stuff. :) You're one of the best, providing the props for scene creation. I hope everyone here appreciates your work, because I do. :)
yes we do http://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/19223/stonemason-appreciation-thread/p1
what would be cool is a little street section for "the streets of old london" just as ground prob without houses so we can place the prob houses to buld fast scenes and create fast renders. Sometimes I do not need the whole set but only one or two houses, but I haven`t got a ground to place them on.