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medieval interior/exterior construction kit

exastrisexastris Posts: 10
in Product Suggestions

imagine my best oliver twist impression: please sir may i have a medieval interior/exterior construction kit?

i tried digging through the product suggestion forum and the general forum search to no avail, so after much frustration i’m posting this to 1) put it out into the world in the hopes that a pa with an interest in working on such kits might see it; and 2) see if anyone has any better searching skills or kit and/or kitbashing suggestions.

what i’m wanting/looking for is a kit that allows for both interior and exterior medieval/fantasy scenes, with realistic textures/materials. everything i've been able to find/buy seems to be either/or. i’d like to be able to construct buildings and houses like little moreton hall, a wealden house, a tudor style cottage, or just a general timber-framed house, and be able to go from a commoner’s house to a noble’s with the occasional palace/castle. also a kit with stairs because i did not expect this to be one of my bigger issues but please my god i need (wood) stairs that can work for interior medieval scenes.

i already own faveral’s mick, the alchemist’s medieval village & village houses construction kits (with mansions on my wishlist), and a good chunk of enterables’ catalogue, but like i said, i’m getting frustrated and there’s only so much with them that i can do. i also already have bradcarsten's castle creator on my wishlist and own roguey and strangefate's red crow inn, little crows, and medieval bedroom to attempt kitbashing with--but, again, frustrations abound.

sooo, dear pa's: pretty pretty please?

everyone else: if you've got suggestions, please share.

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  • Silent WinterSilent Winter Posts: 3,943

    The only other one I'm familiar with is this one:

    https://www.daz3d.com/old-town-construction-kit (not sure where it lies on the medieval­–middle-ages scale).

    Which allows for various houses/buildings of any number of storeys to be built (as well as scripts to assist). Buildings have interior and exterior. No stairs though (nor any obvious way to get between floors).

  • AsuCafeAsuCafe Posts: 423

    I love anything modular, but these two tools might be helpful before a product is even developed.

    https://www.daz3d.com/c66-figure-splitter

    https://www.daz3d.com/environment-set-splitter

    If only all of this were as simple and highly customizable as a building game.

  • exastrisexastris Posts: 10

    Silent Winter said:

    The only other one I'm familiar with is this one:

    https://www.daz3d.com/old-town-construction-kit (not sure where it lies on the medieval­–middle-ages scale).

    Which allows for various houses/buildings of any number of storeys to be built (as well as scripts to assist). Buildings have interior and exterior. No stairs though (nor any obvious way to get between floors).

    hah, the issue of having interiors and upper floors but no obvious way to move between floors is a similar issue (at least part of it) with one of the kits i currently have. that's not a kitbashing headache i'd like to deal with again right now but i'll save this to potentially fiddle with in the future and see what i have that could work with it. it might not fit for what i'm looking for right now but it's always possible to get something out of it.

    AsuCafe said:

    I love anything modular, but these two tools might be helpful before a product is even developed.

    https://www.daz3d.com/c66-figure-splitter

    https://www.daz3d.com/environment-set-splitter

    If only all of this were as simple and highly customizable as a building game.

    while i appreciate the suggestion and could probably use both for something in the future, i'm going to be totally honest and say that i'm not sure either would work for what i want/am looking for kitbashing-wise in this particular instance? i'll have to take a look at what i do have and see if any of them have bones and need to be split to see if the figure splitter would work, but off the top of my head while shooting a quick reply, i don't think so. and i say i'm not sure on the environment set splitter because i am so confused on trying to figure out what it does from its product page and read me. it...sorts things into new folders that it creates? i'd have a folder for my kitbash and then subfolders of items from other kits? looking at the viking village product used in the splitter's example, the houses are already individual props so the splitter would be making them easier to find for a kit of my making?

    i do not want to come across as snooty and immediately shooting things down about this, i promise. crying if you have it, am i guessing correctly at what it does in any shape or am i just way off?

  • exastrisexastris Posts: 10

    yeah, i went digging through what i've got and of what i would use, only the stuff i have from enterables has bones so i could use figure splitter there, but some of those are just massive or don't break apart in the best way. ):

    could create some interesting things as a different project, though.

  • WendyLuvsCatzWendyLuvsCatz Posts: 41,361

    both Fugazi and Merlin have lots of prop sets you might find useful 

    interior walls could be built using subdivided primitives and the geometry editor to cut out matching doors and windows 

  • exastrisexastris Posts: 10
    edited August 4

    WendyLuvsCatz said:

    both Fugazi and Merlin have lots of prop sets you might find useful 

    interior walls could be built using subdivided primitives and the geometry editor to cut out matching doors and windows 

    merlin = merlin studios, yes? in which case, ah! i had not realized that they are or are at least part of the "enterables" shop (product pages don't list them while the read me does and i'm only just now starting to get more familiar with the works and styles of individual artists). i do have a good chunk of their stuff already, then, and more on my wishlist. that's what's got the bones i could use the figure splitter on and get some very interesting configurations out of if i do that. every time i see something from them that i could use in any way possible it's either right into my cart or my wishlist, especially because it is possible to get interior and exterior scenes with a lot of their stuff.

    same w/ fugazi. i've got some of their sets on my "next to buy" list and i love them for individual props to decorate a scene or some pre-built sets. i've been kitbashing with both fugazi and merlin items as much as i can, but like i said, frustrations abound because it's not always going to work. /:

    i feel like if i'm going to end up building pieces with primitives and geometry editor in daz, i might as well just get a little more aggressive about learning blender. which, to be entirely fair, i will probably end up doing but i thought making this post would be nice in the meantime to show those more experienced than me that there's interest for the idea and bounce different ideas off other people rather than hit my head against a wall. and something about doing certain things in blender makes me less nervous than doing them in daz does.

    thank you, though. (: are there possibly any other artists like fugazi and merlin that you can think of that i might find useful? (editing to add that i also have a lot of stuff from e-arkham because i thought of them after posting this.)

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  • WendyLuvsCatzWendyLuvsCatz Posts: 41,361

    Rougey and Strangefate 

  • LorraineLorraine Posts: 1,036

    https://www.daz3d.com/mick-medieval-interior-construction-kit

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