Japanese / western school

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Hi, I am currently working on creating an entire school in Daz studio ( from scratch but using some other models and pictures as rough examples ), I have a school ground that is fenced in, a main building with 3 floors plus a roof ( interior and exterior) multiple classrooms, a cafeteria, library, staff room, principal office, nurse office, washroom, music room, art room, biology room, chemistry lab and a fenced off roof with access to it, all in the interior of the main building, then I also have a gym as a separate building on the terrain, a small storage shed, a building next to the outdoor pool that has washrooms, changing room and showers in it. I currently only have the shapes ( and still working on them ) for those but don't have props or textures yet. Does anyone have any suggestions on what else I should add or have in this school property and any suggestions on where I could get free to use textures or props for the different rooms? Thanks in advance.

felis

Do you have an idea which kind of textures you want?

Poly heaven has free textures, and there are other sites as well.

I am using Filter Forge for textures (it is a SW product that must be bought, but I find it reasonable priced. It generates procedural textures).

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felis said:

Do you have an idea which kind of textures you want?

For now I would only use basic textures such as wood, stone, brick, wooden floor, plastic and some metal, but as I work on it I will probably advance and make it look better, some materials I would make it look like paint which wouldn't always need a texture and could be just a color, but things such as doors or windows I would probably put as wood or something, I would also need textures for things such as the gym floor which I would make like a basketball or volleyball floor with lines, the washrooms and showers I would make different types of tiles and so forth, I'm still in the creating of the shapes and haven't really started on textures yet

felis

Then I would start at Poly Heaven, and if they don't have something, try to search for free XYZ textures and see if something comes up.

"Generic" textures like brick, wood etc should be fairly feasable, but when it comes to something like a 'vollyball floor with lines', you probably can't find a texture right away.

If everything fails, then come back here, and we can see if we can suggest something.

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Just a quick preview of what I have so far, textures / color not there yet as previously mentioned, only shape and still working on it, currently working on making the paths ( the red stuff ) as actual paths rather than just red colored "textures" on a plane. I am open to suggestions if I need to change something

csaa

MoreTech said:

Hi, I am currently working on creating an entire school in Daz studio ( from scratch but using some other models and pictures as rough examples ), I have a school ground that is fenced in, a main building with 3 floors plus a roof ( interior and exterior) multiple classrooms, a cafeteria, library, staff room, principal office, nurse office, washroom, music room, art room, biology room, chemistry lab and a fenced off roof with access to it, all in the interior of the main building, then I also have a gym as a separate building on the terrain, a small storage shed, a building next to the outdoor pool that has washrooms, changing room and showers in it. I currently only have the shapes ( and still working on them ) for those but don't have props or textures yet. Does anyone have any suggestions on what else I should add or have in this school property and any suggestions on where I could get free to use textures or props for the different rooms? Thanks in advance.

MoreTech,

If you haven't put these details in, here are some suggestions.

In Japan they are  keen to keep the outdoor dirt from getting indoors. This is why they switch from shoes to slippers at the threshold of the entryway. I could be wrong, but I believe it's the same custom in Korea. Every Japanese school has an expansive getabako, alongside student lockers. Here's a quote from Wikipedia. You'll find a number of photos online for reference.

Schools and public baths (銭湯, sentō) have large shoe cupboards (下駄箱, getabako) with compartments for each person's outdoor shoes. In private residences, getabako may be absent, and shoes are usually turned to face the door so they can be slipped on easily when leaving.

Walking and biking are common ways to get about on foot in Japan. The schools I've seen there set aside a long shed where students can park their bicycles. I didn't see that in the render you shared, so maybe that's a detail you can thrown in as well.

If something else comes to mind, I'll drop you a follow up note. 

Cheers!

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csaa said:

MoreTech said:

Hi, I am currently working on creating an entire school in Daz studio ( from scratch but using some other models and pictures as rough examples ), I have a school ground that is fenced in, a main building with 3 floors plus a roof ( interior and exterior) multiple classrooms, a cafeteria, library, staff room, principal office, nurse office, washroom, music room, art room, biology room, chemistry lab and a fenced off roof with access to it, all in the interior of the main building, then I also have a gym as a separate building on the terrain, a small storage shed, a building next to the outdoor pool that has washrooms, changing room and showers in it. I currently only have the shapes ( and still working on them ) for those but don't have props or textures yet. Does anyone have any suggestions on what else I should add or have in this school property and any suggestions on where I could get free to use textures or props for the different rooms? Thanks in advance.

MoreTech,

If you haven't put these details in, here are some suggestions.

In Japan they are  keen to keep the outdoor dirt from getting indoors. This is why they switch from shoes to slippers at the threshold of the entryway. I could be wrong, but I believe it's the same custom in Korea. Every Japanese school has an expansive getabako, alongside student lockers. Here's a quote from Wikipedia. You'll find a number of photos online for reference.

Schools and public baths (銭湯, sentō) have large shoe cupboards (下駄箱, getabako) with compartments for each person's outdoor shoes. In private residences, getabako may be absent, and shoes are usually turned to face the door so they can be slipped on easily when leaving.

Walking and biking are common ways to get about on foot in Japan. The schools I've seen there set aside a long shed where students can park their bicycles. I didn't see that in the render you shared, so maybe that's a detail you can thrown in as well.

If something else comes to mind, I'll drop you a follow up note. 

Cheers!

Thanks, I do already have the entry with the room for the getabako, don't have the furniture inside yet, but the "entry" is set aside for that already, the bike area I hadn't thought about, and will add that, thanks for the suggestion. I should also say that all the paths behind the main building will be covered when I am done making them