Now Crowd for school?
z_stefani
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Does anyone know if there's a Now_crowd version for high schoolers in school uniforms? Preferrably with uniforms that I can change the colors of? They have 1 for school but they are all wearing regular clothing. This 1 Now-Crowd Billboards - Asian School Life | Daz 3D would be perfect, but it's an asian high school & i'm doing an American High School. OR is there any way to change it from sian to American? I'm HOPING there's already 1 out there and i just couldnt find it.I REALLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLY need it! Thanks
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AFAIK there's only the "school life" (regular clothing) and "Asian school life" products in the Now Crowd series.
It's not possible to change the color of an outfit in a Now Crowd billboard. A billboard is a plane with a pre-rendered image on it, to change the colors you would need a modified version of the image - and one of the good things about Now Crowd is that they provide 72 angles for each billboard, which means each billboard uses 72 images (plus 72 transparency maps).
Not unless they're graduating ;)
Depending on your use-case, you might be able to set up a few students and use this: https://www.daz3d.com/billboard-builder to make the specific billboards you need for your shot. That is if you have the time to set up the figures and just need billboards to save on scene resources.
Now-Crowd sets take a long time to set up and render so I wouldn't hold my breath for another school set.
Just use scene optimizer. and older gen figures. G3 figures in soft focus are hard to distiguish from G9 figures unless you're doing closeups of thei faces/skin. And then there's LowPi figures.
Classroom shots should also be easy to do partial renders that are stitched together in an image editor.
Before I found out about Scene Optimizer (ugh, horrible American spelling - why do they love using "z" at every opportunity?), I had cause to create a scene that had about 30 background characters. I just used basic G8 figures with the smallest file size clothing I had. The biggest issue was finding hair that didn't swallow up VRAM, there were very few lightweight ones I had at the time.
Another thing that can help to make a crowded scene is the Resource Saver shaders
For figures far away there's LowPi
Oh and if you're looking for the school uniforms used in the "Asian school life" pack, they are the "Time for School" uniforms. Here's the linnk to the G8 version, they also have G3 and G2 versions:
https://www.daz3d.com/dforce-time-for-school-for-genesis-8-males
https://www.daz3d.com/dforce-time-for-school-for-genesis-8-females
It's protest about the useless U's in words like armour.
No, removing letters from words is just lazy
especially when it was our language in the first place. No respect at all 
no respect is actually the US comments correcting my English spelling on YouTube and social media
Puh-lease. English is a bully language, chasing other languages down dark alleys to steal words from them. 40% of modern English was stolen from the French. And purity of spelling is a joke. All the who, what, when words were originally hwo, hwat, etc until some random English lorde decided to swap the first letter. Do you pronounce the S in isle? Never heard it called AIS-SLEE of Skeye-uh.
I do watch too many Rob Words videos on YouTube.
Thank you Leana I appreciate that info ;)
Thank you Silent Winter for that information. I didn't know about the billboard builder, I'll have t ocheck that out. I JUST discovered Now-Crowd tbh. I havent found anything quite like it. I personally like it (that could be because i havent found anything similar or better to help) I've used the photographers, the police, emergency, etc. I find it to be very helpful. I personally don't mind setting it up, but It does increase rendering time for sure! Unlessi can find something better, I will use the graduation as well as the regular school (for when they go to college) Thanks again ;)
Thats a good idea jmucchiello I didn't know about gen 3/gen9! Thank you very much!!!
Thankz garrett_3d TBH, I didn't know much about scene optimizer until jmucchiello mentioned it (comment before yours) I'm definitley going to look into it. That could be so helpful! I have to fill up a school and then a college for this particular story. I decided on school uniforms, so thats making it a little more difficult.
P.S. I personally use Z for every single oopportunity lol ;) I think we should use more Z's in EVERYTHING (check out my name lol) Thankz again ;)
Thank you so much Leana for that valuable info! I will def check that out! I have a few of the resouce saver shaders. Unfortunatley I just had to go and design new patterns for existing uniforms, smh. BUT i may need to change to something similar if i find a pack i can use. So thats very helpful! Thankz again <3
jmucchiello HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Yeah, the Now-Crowd sets are fantastic - I've got lots of them and use them all the time. Having made one myself, I can attest to how much work goes into a set, which is why we don't have every type for every situation. I'm still hopeful RiversoftArt finds time to work through the backlog of ideas there ;)
I agree 100% Silent Winter They are fantastic! Lol i call them the "Now Magic" packs
I find them incredibly helpful! TBH, I always worry about filling scenes but now that I know about now-crowd, i don't have to limit myself! I havent used your graduation set yet but i will be! I'm excited to use it and I'm very thankfu to you for creating it! You & Riversoftarts have made it easeir for me. And i personally think setting them up in scene is fun ;) I can only imagine the time, energy, etc that it takes to create them. I HOPE that Riversoftarts & you create more! Maybe the US version of Now-Crowd Billboards - Asian School Life | Daz 3D *hint-hint LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL JK ;)