Crowds in Daz

jdavison67

How do you put a croud in a scene, without rendering from the CPU?

nemesis10

I am suprised no one has responded!  There are multiple ways that people handle this (exactly the way that they do in the movies):

1. Low poly figures to pad the background and use depth of field to hide them (https://www.daz3d.com/lowpoly-crowd-creator-bundle, https://www.daz3d.com/low-rez-crowds, https://www.daz3d.com/lorez-figures-modern-males)
2. Billboards (https://www.daz3d.com/now-crowd-billboards--modern-sitting-crowd)
3. Background images (https://elements.envato.com/3d-crowd-of-people-sitting-with-alpha-channel-back-NZFWTE2 as an example)
4. AI generated crowds 
5. And on and on

kyoto kid

..here are few products:that could help.

https://www.daz3d.com/low-rez-crowds

https://www.daz3d.com/lowpoly-crowd-creator-bundle  ;

Then there are several differently themed sets of Now Crowd "billboard" figure sets by RiverSoftArt

https://www.daz3d.com/now-crowd-billboards-modern-city-life

These are nice as they are usable with different camera angles.. 

 

 

Griffin Avid

I didn't respond because I have no idea what the question means.

"without rendering from the CPU".

Does that mean ONLY using the video card? Cause that's a setting in the Render Settings tab.

Or does the OP mean - without being forced to drop back down to CPU because you don't have enough RAM to support/load/use multiple Daz figures?

Crowds are still an issue. I saw a recent product that is a city with corwds of people for far, overhead shots.

https://www.daz3d.com/central-business-district

https://www.daz3d.com/the-ultimate-guide-to-building-low-poly-figure-scenes

https://www.daz3d.com/now-crowd-billboards--autumn-in-the-city--men

maikdecker

If one has a bit time available, it's also possible to set up your own "lo poly" figures by setting the Resolution Level (Parameter Tab) to "Basic", removing unnecessary texture maps (Surface Tab) and hiding body parts hidden under clothing (Scene Tab) manually.

Not everything needs to be done with bought products when one can spend just a bit of time and/or effort

xyer0

CGTrader is where I got most of my lopoly pipo on sale (there's a sale now, but hurry). Thirty in one pack, 55 in another, and various groups of more or less. Humano offers the most photorealistic, but there are enough options available that you can build a stable. Along with Predatron's LoRez figures & RiverSoft Art's billboards, Powerage has some low poly pipo solutions for seated audiences and running (for disaster scenes) at Renderosity, although none of them can believably survive even a midrange shot without dof. The mall and station scenes use CGTrader figures, (minus the single G8.1F in the station). The ball match audience is Powerage.

WendyLuvsCatz

also Microsoft Rocketbox figures now DAZ FBX importer improved

https://github.com/microsoft/Microsoft-Rocketbox

free

posing is challenging as bones don't pivot correctly but uploading to Adobe Mixamo first also free and they have poses as well as animations 

Griffin Avid

Not everything needs to be done with bought products when one can spend just a bit of time and/or effort...

@maikdecker

Have you done this and do you have any end-result images you can share or point us to?

jjoyner

You can make your own billboards with Billboard Builder (https://www.daz3d.com/billboard-builder) in the DAZ3D store but it’s not currently on sale.  However, you can, with a bit more work, make billboards without a store product, although you’ll need a 2D photo editor and GIMP is free.  Jay Versluis has two YouTube videos about making your own billboards:

Creating Billboards in Daz Studio with Photoshop

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uuxHRcebHn0

Creating Billboards in Daz Studio with Billboard Builder

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QvKw5PQfXy4

 

jjoyner

You can make your own billboards with Billboard Builder (https://www.daz3d.com/billboard-builder) in the DAZ3D store but it’s not currently on sale.  However, you can, with a bit more work, make billboards without a store product, although you’ll need a 2D photo editor and GIMP is free.  Jay Versluis has two YouTube videos about making your own billboards:

Creating Billboards in Daz Studio with Photoshop

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uuxHRcebHn0

Creating Billboards in Daz Studio with Billboard Builder

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QvKw5PQfXy4

 

maikdecker

Griffin Avid said:

Not everything needs to be done with bought products when one can spend just a bit of time and/or effort...

@maikdecker

Have you done this and do you have any end-result images you can share or point us to?

Yes and no. I did a "proof of concept" attempt to see how many figures I can squeeze into the 8 mb of my GTX1070 (12 lo-res G8F iirc). I do not need crowds for my renders usually. I won't do a render for this forum.

FirstBastion

xyer0 said:

CGTrader is where I got most of my lopoly pipo on sale (there's a sale now, but hurry). Thirty in one pack, 55 in another, and various groups of more or less. Humano offers the most photorealistic, but there are enough options available that you can build a stable. Along with Predatron's LoRez figures & RiverSoft Art's billboards, Powerage has some low poly pipo solutions for seated audiences and running (for disaster scenes) at Renderosity, although none of them can believably survive even a midrange shot without dof. The mall and station scenes use CGTrader figures, (minus the single G8.1F in the station). The ball match audience is Powerage.

 Really like all the complex crowd setups you've done.  And that may be the best embellishment of the Suburban Mall I have seen posted on here.