Good Sci-Fi restaraunt?
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Any products that are or could serve well for a Sci-Fi restaraunt? Took a poke closest I saw was the Sci-Fi lounge.
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Maybe http://www.daz3d.com/gis-orion ?
Hyperion Bar would make a pretty good sci-fi resaurant. It's got plenty of floor-space for tables and the actual bar section would make a passable counter, just need to add a kitchen off the back somewhere/how
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Although it should be mentioned there aren't any Daz Studio textures for it :(
i think we could use this. There are a few sets that could be kitbashed together but not a lot of sets that aren't basically empty. For some reason most of the sci-fi sets that get released are corridors and boxes. Not that I'm complaining I own my share just would like a scifi mess.
I'm still waiting for a sci fi maintinence crawlspace (you know, those ones that are small and cramped with barely enough room to fit?). I know there's a vertical one over at rendo, but no horizontal one.
I forgot about this, I remember now seeing the new PC+ textures released not too long ago. No kitchen, but I could probably work around that. I'm a PC+ member so that's a bonus too.
If you go to Renderosity, 3-d-c has a set called Sci-Fi bar, which is on the older side but comes with lots of V4/M4 poses as a bonus. If you'd like a more cyberpunk-looking set, maybe something by coflek-gnorg's Technotown series (also at Rendo) might be what you're looking for. Technotown Vol 2 has an odd quasi-Chinese outdoor restaurant in the cyberpunk vein. It's intended for Poser so you will have to manually tweak the textures for DAZ studio.
Here's the "Razor Rider" Diner mentioned in the post above. It's not an "entire" diner as it just has a booth and a modular wall section that can be loaded multiple times, but it certainly looks like something from Ridley scott's "Blade Runner". A neat tabletop goodie is a "holographic" menu projector that can be seen in this render.
BTW, that's "melody" with the "Furries for..." morphs (which I bought waaaaay back when they debuted at RDNA.
Sincerely,
Bill
reference photos always help to get a sense of what you are looking for.
Couldn't you just rotate it 90*, LOL?
As long as it's UV mapped, you could probably use any other seamless textures or procedural ones
ROTFL ... a photo of a scifi mainenance space? Somebody has a time machine?
(Sorry, I couldn't resist)
By the way: free scifi restaurant: http://www.technowomb.com/poser/x2000/interiors-p1.html http://www.technowomb.com/poser/x2000/interiors-p3.html
A lot of sci-fi has a sterile quality. Althought this has its place, vast halls of white rooms with uncomfotable chairs don't make a convincing future unless you are living on Krypton.
I think there are several ways you could go with this. You could make a bustling canteena/bar which could have low lighting, tables, a bar to serve exotic drinks, some sort of area for stage. Colors could be vibrant and exotic. There could be exotic plants, and drinks, and food.
Then you could have a mess hall similar to what you'd find on a ship with functional benches and chairs, food, and serving area, brighter lighting, a view of space.
Then you could have the dystopian restaurant which might serve a mishmash of food, have a rundown shabby but futrisitic quality, perhaps with automated machines, and advertising everywhere. Cheaper fast food which might be affordable to people.
The sky is the limit with this theme.
Futuristic food might add to the ambiance. There are plenty of diner style foods available in the store, but exotic future food? Not much.
I LOVE this!
Oh... A 3D model... Naa... But if you are into Blark, there is Uncle Limbalumptlorg's just outside NGC224. You can take the M67-Y hypernode to the brown dwarf RS 8410-7-0-0-143 ... It's on the sixth planet on the left. It's literally the only thing on the planet except for an old Volkswagen microbus some hippies abandoned. I kinda think Blark has been a little overrated lately because of that stupid Impervium Chef show, but Limbalumptlorg still does it old school.
There's always Dystopean Destinations: Fengs http://www.daz3d.com/dystopia-destinations-feng-s-noodle-shop It's more an outdoor cafe than a restaurant, but it's got a nice blade runner vibe.
Also, the Dystopian Kiosks come with some tables (with or without umbrellas) plus they deliver.
http://www.daz3d.com/dystopian-kiosk-base-drinks
http://www.daz3d.com/dystopian-kiosk-expansion-food
The razor rider mentioned above does have outside sections as well so you can do a "looking in" render, but there is no complete outside (or kitchen).
Edited: for spelling and additional stuff.
Questor modified it years ago for DS. Though you can always slap some Procedural shaders on it.
Depending on the type of Restaurant you are looking for there are also http://www.daz3d.com/odysseon-station-observation-deck and http://www.daz3d.com/dystopia-destinations-feng-s-noodle-shop
Have some appropiate Sci-Fi furniture, then any reasonably sized open room should do the trick as well. And don't feel hemmed in by the room needing to be "Sci-Fi" With some cool shaders or even out of the box, http://www.daz3d.com/aslan-court-1 would work.
The diner? The characters? the lighting? I'd like to know what I did right. ;-)
Sincerely,
Bill
I've always thought http://www.daz3d.com/dystopia-destinations-hyperion-bar would fit the bill nicely??
One other note, When you say Sci-Fi Restaurant, it depends on what genre you are talking about.
Fresh Air from Babylon 5 looks quite different from the bar in Blade Runner, Quark's from Deep Space 9, the Mess hall on "Enterprise," the bar in Firefly's episode "Jayne's Town," "Train Job" or either venue in "Shindig."
What is a Sci-Fi location for one may not be for another. LOL
Coflek-Gnorg has a whole slew of futuristic locations. Most of them with a Bladerunneresque vibe. But a he's been around for quite a while and a lot of them havwe gone clearance/disappearance by now. You'd have to check his whole catalog to see if there is anything on the order of what you are looking for.
Not really. Scifi has a pretty broad but defining definition and those could potentially all encompass scifi as the genre is wide and vast.
I think you may be speaking about sub genres.
In general while I admire the technical skill involved in making older sets they look dated to me and the ones I've bought have been disappointing.
That's a great render!
The diner (I'm a coflek-gnorg fan so I have it), the characters, the lighting, the colors, the story we want to know more about....iow all of it. I love your image.
Thank you very much, Spit! They are a couple of characters I created in the late 1980s, the ailuromorph (cat-girl) being the "star". The concepts never really developed beyond some nebulous ideas, just random vignettes rattling around the hollow space that is my skull. But whatever other material I may depict (usually "fan art" of one property or another), I will eventually return to focus upon "K'tharr Rauthimas", K'th for short. Coflek's sets and hardware are near perfect for the cyberpunk near future I imagined. Hey, in the late 80s, "Blade Runner" was still a "recent" production and cyberpunk themes had not yet been ground into cinematic cliches. Much of Gnorg's items work so well!
I may post a slightly updated version of the scene upon my Deviant Art page and supply some "backstory". Right now, there's just "fan art" renders of Lt. M'Ress from the 1973 animated adaptation of Star Trek, no "personal" or "original" material.
Sincerely,
Bill
I hear ya. I think I will wind up kitbashing here, I think Stonemason's NWX Section 18 might work nice. I just turned off display for the plant terrarium for this - of course, leaving it in there could be good too (might have to expand it to fit tables). I will probably pick up GIS Orion for tables. Doesn't have a kitchen of course, but I can work around that.
Where would I find the modified DS version? the only thing I could come up with searching Questor Hyperion Bar was a bunch of torrents :(
I guess I'll add I'm after the more cleaner look, although I like grungier styles too.
I like the idea of using Stonemason's set, I used his sci-fi kit for the bathroom. Then I kitbashed Sci-Fi Outpost's bathroom. I like the effect of covering the door with glass, but I lose the signs. Gotta figure out how to do signs over glass material, or maybe a sign prop to place over. Sink one glass, one stock-ish.
Unfortunately I don't know if it is still available. You don't really need it though, if you have some good procedural shaders.
I got an Iray shader pack from somewhere (probably sharecg) but it just doesn't look quite right to me on the hyperion bar. Then again, it could be just me as I've not used shaders before
As an example. I took a tile floor from http://www.daz3d.com/designer-tiles and tiled it to x=50 y=50. Theen I took two of the emissive shaders from here: http://www.daz3d.com/dg-iray-sci-fi-surface-lights-shader and set their tiling to 10 in both directions. Note the advantage to the emissive shaders is they are providing most of the light in the scene.
Note this was just quick and dirty, and I will do quite a bit more work with the tables, stools, booths, bar, bottles, etc. before I am done. But remember you only have to do it once, as you can then save your results, either as material presets or scene subsets, for later use.
Oh, I forgot, this is Iray. 3Delight would require placing lights. LOL.
The bottles, if you are going to use them, are going to require extra work. It might be easier to replace them. (And you can probably use the labels with a little photoshop cutting of the textures. LOL.)
One source of free procedural shaders is in my sig.
Or you could use decals to ignore mapping.